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North America > United States > Agriculture

Agricultural growth 117 [57th of 149]
Agricultural machinery > tractors 4,760,000 Time series [1st of 190]
Arable and permanent cropland 179,000 thousand hectares [2nd of 148]
Arable land > % of land area 19.04 % of land area Time series [38th of 199]
Arable land > hectares 174,448,000 hectares Time series [1st of 199]
Area > Corn 28,710,000 [2nd of 21]
Area > Rice 1,210,000 [15th of 23]
Banana imports $1,389.00 million [1st of 9]
Cereal production 117 thousand metric tons [57th of 149]
Cotton exports 12,000 thousand bales [1st of 109]
Cotton production 17,559 [2nd of 109]
Fertilizer use 103.4 kg [40th of 138]
Food production index 107.5 % Time series [81st of 182]
Grains > Corn production 259,273 thousand metric tons [2nd of 17]
Grains > Rice consumption 3,882 thousand metric tons [13th of 17]
Grains > Rice production 6,174 thousand metric tons [12th of 16]
Grains > Wheat consumption 33,203 thousand metric tons [6th of 15]
Grains > Wheat production 63,590 thousand metric tons [5th of 17]
Labor share 2% [145th of 149]
Tractors 4,800,000 [2nd 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; Food and Agricultural Organization (1998); United States Department of Agriculture

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: United States, United States of America, usa, America, The United States, u.s.

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