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South America > Brazil > Agriculture

BRAZILIAN AGRICULTURE STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Agricultural growth 123 [40th of 149]
Agricultural machinery > tractors 806,000 Time series [11th of 190]
Arable and permanent cropland 65,200 thousand hectares [6th of 148]
Arable land > hectares 59,000,000 hectares Time series [5th of 199]
Area > Corn 12,440,000 [4th of 21]
Area > Rice 3,730,000 [10th of 23]
Banana production 6,339,350 metric tonnes [2nd of 48]
Cereal production 123 thousand metric tons [40th of 149]
Cereal yield > kg per hectare 2,919.4 kg/ha Time series [72nd of 171]
Cotton exports 1,300 thousand bales [4th of 109]
Cotton production 4,400 [5th of 109]
Food production index 124.3 % Time series [10th of 182]
Grains > Corn production 37,500 thousand metric tons [4th of 17]
Grains > Rice production 7,300 thousand metric tons [10th of 16]
Grains > Wheat consumption 9,950 thousand metric tons [11th of 15]
Grains > Wheat production 4,700 thousand metric tons [15th of 17]
Labor share 16.1% [96th of 149]
Meat production 12,184 thousand metric tons [3rd of 149]
Products
coffee, soybeans, wheat, rice, corn, sugarcane, cocoa, citrus; beef
Tractors 806,000 [12th of 147]

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SOURCES: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2001; World Development Indicators database; World Resources Institute; Production Estimates and Crop Assessment Division, FAS, USDA; Agri-Food Business Development Centre; United States Department of Agriculture; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Brazil, Federative Republic of Brazil, Republica Federativa do Brasil, Brasil

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