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	Maize	32,562,540	C	280,228,400
2	Indigenous Cattle Meat	23,040,640	C	11,140,000	*
3	Cow Milk, Whole, Fresh	21,315,090	C	80,150,000
4	Indigenous Chicken Meat	18,697,710	C	16,030,000	*
5	Soybeans	18,045,660	C	82,820,050
6	Indigenous Pigmeat	9,179,673	C	9,065,000	*
7	Wheat	8,907,323	C	57,105,550
8	Hen Eggs	4,627,585	C	5,329,600
9	Tomatoes	3,024,648	C	12,766,000	F
10	Grapes	2,975,738	C	6,414,610
11	Potatoes	2,772,055	C	19,111,030
12	Indigenous Turkey Meat	2,688,706	C	2,460,000	*
13	Rice, Paddy	2,132,696	C	10,012,190
14	Lettuce	1,692,040	C	4,976,880	F
15	Oranges	1,452,714	C	8,266,270
16	Apples	1,221,917	C	4,254,290
17	Sorghum	1,201,318	C	9,847,680
18	Sugar Beets	1,138,064	C	24,724,410
19	Strawberries	1,033,847	C	974,500	F
20	Groundnuts in Shell	1,020,941	C	2,112,700

	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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