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	Olives	1,100,594	C	2,200,000	F
2	Grapes	556,680	C	1,200,000	F
3	Tomatoes	402,781	C	1,700,000	F
4	Wheat	280,764	C	1,800,000	F
5	Maize	267,260	C	2,300,000	F
6	Peaches and Nectarines	243,110	C	681,000	*
7	Sheep Milk	237,552	C	700,000	F
8	Tobacco Leaves	224,256	C	123,000	F
9	Cow Milk, Whole, Fresh	207,433	C	780,000	F
10	Oranges	169,062	C	962,000	*
11	Indigenous Sheep Meat	160,240	C	81,000	F
12	Indigenous Chicken Meat	155,997	C	133,740	F
13	Goat Milk	149,213	C	495,000	F
14	Indigenous Pigmeat	134,080	C	132,405	F
15	Potatoes	121,842	C	840,000	F
16	Indigenous Cattle Meat	115,824	C	56,000	F
17	Sugar Beets	108,170	C	2,350,000	F
18	Hen Eggs	91,169	C	105,000	F
19	Apples	70,943	C	247,000	*
20	Watermelons	66,941	C	642,000	*

	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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