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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