MAJOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES AND PRODUCERS

Food and Agricultural commodities production
	Commodities by country
	Countries by commodity
	Country rank in the world, by commodity

This page presents production of the 20 most important food and agricultural commodities (ranked by value) in a given country for the year indicated. International commodity prices are used, to calculate the total value of each commodity produced by each country and subsequently used in the ranking of commodities and countries. They are applied in order to avoid the use of exchange rates for obtaining continental and world aggregates, and also to improve and facilitate international comparative analysis of productivity at the national level. Data is extracted from the FAOSTAT database. For detailed definitions of commodities and other notes, see technical notes.

Rank	Commodity	Production (Int $1000) Footnote		Production (MT) Footnote

1	Wheat	3,275,580	C	21,000,000
2	Cow Milk, Whole, Fresh	2,526,430	C	9,500,000	F
3	Tomatoes	2,298,221	C	9,700,000
4	Grapes	1,693,235	C	3,650,000
5	Indigenous Chicken Meat	1,101,094	C	943,994	F
6	Barley	876,510	C	9,000,000
7	Indigenous Cattle Meat	759,050	C	366,996	F
8	Apples	732,411	C	2,550,000
9	Hen Eggs	720,672	C	830,000	F
10	Sugar Beets	621,405	C	13,500,000	F
11	Potatoes	604,858	C	4,170,000
12	Chillies&Peppers, Green	602,182	C	1,745,000
13	Indigenous Sheep Meat	538,333	C	272,123	F
14	Hazelnuts (Filberts)	488,285	C	500,000
15	Olives	425,230	C	850,000
16	Maize	406,700	C	3,500,000
17	Watermelons	396,226	C	3,800,000
18	Onions, Dry	368,580	C	2,000,000
19	Cantaloupes&oth Melons	301,427	C	1,700,000	F
20	Cucumbers and Gherkins	290,990	C	1,725,000

	No symbol = official figure F = FAO estimate	* = Unofficial figure C = Calculated figure
Production in Int $1000 have been calculated based on 1999-2001 international prices

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