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Production of some products is highly concentrated in a few countries, China, the leading producer of wheat and ramie in 2013, produces 95% of the world's ramie fiber but only 17% of the world's wheat. Products with more evenly distributed production see more frequent changes in the ranking of the top producers.
A map of worldwide wheat production in 2000 Wheat is one of the most widely produced primary crops in the world. The following international wheat production statistics come from the Food and Agriculture Organization figures from FAOSTAT database, older from International Grains Council figures from the report "Grain Market Report". The ...
It was the largest producer of wheat (131.4 million tons); It was the 3rd largest producer of sugarcane (108 million tons), second only to Brazil and India; It was the largest producer of potato (90.2 million tons); It was the largest producer of watermelon (62.8 million tons); It was the largest producer of tomatoes (61.5 million tons);
Combined wheat production from India and Australia, the second- and fifth-largest wheat growers, respectively, will top 143 million tonnes in the 2021-22 season, more than 20 million tonnes above ...
For millennia, agriculture has played an important role in the Chinese economy and society. By the time the People's Republic of China was established in 1949, virtually all arable land was under cultivation; irrigation and drainage systems constructed centuries earlier and intensive farming practices already produced relatively high yields.
Efforts to expand wheat production in South Africa, Kenya and India were stymied by low yields and disease. However, by 2000 India had become the second largest producer of wheat in the world. [115] In the 19th century the American wheat frontier moved rapidly westward. By the 1880s 70% of American exports went to British ports.
India is the world's largest producer of milk, fruits, cashew nuts, coconuts, ginger, turmeric, banana, sapota, pulses, and black pepper. [88] India is the second largest producer of groundnut, wheat, vegetables, sugar and fish in the world. [88]
Kazakhstan's largest crop is wheat, which it exports. It ranks as the sixth largest wheat producer in the world. [2] Minor crops include barley, cotton, sugar beets, sunflowers, flax, and rice. Agricultural lands in Kazakhstan were depleted of their nutrients during the Virgin Lands Campaign during the Soviet era. This continues to affect ...