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Where Does Our Food Come From?

The Largest Agri Producers and Exporters

By University of the Potomac
2022

Excerpt:

Key Findings:

The most widely cultivated agricultural commodities worldwide are cow milk, sugar cane, corn, wheat, and rice. Cow milk is the top agricultural product in 37 countries, while wheat is the top agricultural product in 14 countries.

Corn is the most produced crop globally with 1.1 billion tons, followed by wheat with 760.9 million tons and rice with 756.7 million tons.

China, the United States, Russia, Brazil, and India, five of the world’s most dominant food producers, are also among the top ten countries in the global export.

Russia, the third-largest wheat producer, together with its neighbor Ukraine account for about 30% of the global wheat trade, making the region one of the major breadbasket regions.

Russia cultivates over a third of global sunflower seeds, while a quarter of the total production comes from Ukraine.

Today, some of the most exported agricultural products globally are wheat, rice, soybeans, corn, barley, rapeseed, palm oil, sunflower seeds, and bananas.

Brazil is the world’s main producer of soybeans as well as the biggest exporter of it (82.9M tons) followed by US (64.5M tons), and Paraguay (6.6M tons).

China is the top producer of rice in the world with 211M tons and exports 2.2M tons of them. The majority of the rice produced in this country is to meet their population’s demands.

The US produces 32% of the world’s corn, making it the top producer of this crop. The US is also the top exporter of corn and in 2020 it exported this crop to 73 different countries.

China is the largest producer of eggs with 29.8M tons, but Netherlands exports 415.3K tons eggs yearly, making it the largest exporter of this commodity.

In 2020, soybeans were the highest value exported goods for the United States, which reached an export value of $25.8 billion.

In 2020, China was the lead producer of over 30 crops, including wheat, rice, tomatoes, and potatoes. Rice was the most produced crop, with 353.1 million tons in total.

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