Top Crop-Based Agricultural Export Commodities  in the World and in These Six Countries   

Table AEC-1. List of top 20 food and agricultural export commodities originating or processed from agricultural crops in the world and in selected six countries for 2011 based on total production tonnage (constructed from FAOStat lists for 2011)

		UNITED	UNITED	SOUTH
RANK	WORLD	STATES	KINGDOM	AFRICA	INDIA	AUSTRALIA	PHILIPPINES
1	wheat	maize	wheat	maize	cake, soybeans	wheat	bananas
2	maize	soybeans	barley	oranges	rice–total (rice milled equivalent)	barley	oil, coconut (copra)
3	soybeans	wheat	rapeseed	wine	maize	sugar raw centrifugal	sugar raw centrifugal
4	cake, soybeans	cake, soybeans	beer of barley	apples	cotton lint	rapeseed	cake, copra
5	oil, palm	forage products	potatoes	grapes	sugar refined	forage products	molasses
6	rice–total (rice milled equivalent)	sorghum	sugar refined	grapefruit (inc pomelos)	cake, rapeseed	cotton lint	pineapples
7	sugar raw centrifugal	rice–total (rice milled equivalent)	flour, wheat	pears	onions, dry	wine	pineapples, canned
8	barley	cotton lint	malt	lemons and limes	sugar raw centifugal	cotton seed	coconuts, dessicated
9	sugar refined	oil, soybean	oil, rapeseed	sugar refined	groundnuts, shelled	malt	juice, pineapple, conc
10	bananas	potatoes, frozen	broad beans, horse beans, dry	flour, maize	sesame seed	molasses	tobacco, unmanu- factured
11	rapeseed	apples	cereals, breakfast	sugar raw centrifugal	oil, castor beans	chick peas	rubber natural dry
12	flour, wheat	oranges	bread	tangerines, mandarins, clementines, satsumas	oil, castor beans	rice–total (rice milled equivalent)	mangoes, mangos- teens, guavas
13	beer of barley	bran, wheat	oats rolled	flour, wheat	molasses	lentils	juice, pineapple
14	potatoes	bananas	wine	oil, soybean	tea	broad beans, horse beans, dry	cigarettes
15	wine	potatoes	cake, soybeans	plums and sloes	chillies and peppers, dry	peas, dry	flour, wheat
16	oil, soybean	almonds, shelled	beans, dry	oil, sunflower	coffee, green	sugar refined	onions, dry
17	cake, rapeseed	wine	sugar raw centrifugal	potatoes	tomatoes	oats	cereals, breakfast
18	apples	grapes	linseed	onions, dry	mangoes, mangosteens, guavas	oil, rapeseed	beer of barley
19	cotton lint	juice, orange single strength	cake, rapeseed	soybeans	potatoes	oranges	Manila fibre (abaca)
20	rubber natural dry	beet pulp	rice–total (rice milled equivalent)	rice–total (rice milled equivalent)	tobacco, unmanufactured	beans, dry	soya sauce

Note: The above list of top 20 food and agricultural export commodities in the world and in six countries namely the United States of America, United Kingdom, South Africa, India, Australia and the Philippines is a self-made list based on the top 10 and top 50 list of exported food and agricultural commodities provided by FAOStat. The year 2011 is its most recent entry. The countries are my own choosing, seeking only to make a comparison from around the world.

Aiming to show  what possibly are the top export crops in these countries, the author disregarded those commodities termed by broad classifications, notably those “not elsewhere specified” or nes. Livestock commodities were likewise excluded. To be clear, however, the listing of any export commodity (example, beer of barley) does not necessarily mean that the crop (barley) is produced domestically or the country is a top producer of the specified agricultural crop.

(Ben G. Bareja, Aug. 2014)

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