23.05.2017
Category: Organic
By: Johanna Schott, Jürn Sanders

China and USA: Big and small in organic cereal production at the same time


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10 countries with the largest organic cereal areas 2014: Organic shares in total cereals areas

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Key organic cereal producers: Share of organic in conventional cereal harvests 2014/15 (India 2010/11)

China and the USA are the biggest organic cereal producers worldwide in terms of area under cultivation. But it is worthwhile to take a closer look on this fact.

It´s true, China and USA dispose over the largest surfaces for organic cereal production in hectares. But their respective shares in organic cereal areas were the smallest among the 10 largest organic cereal producing countries in 2014-2015.

Moreover, the shares of organic cereal harvests in conventional cereal harvests in China and the USA were among the smallest of the 10 largest organic cereal producing coun-tries in the production period 2014-2015.

Sources: : AMI (2016a), Eurostat (2017a), NCOF (2016), OW (2017), FiBL & IFOAM (2016: 88-89), IGC (2017),  Proplanta (2014), StatCan (2014), USDA (2011 a,j2015, 2016 d), USDA (2015),  own calculation

 

More information on organic cereal production, you find in the agri benchmark Organic  “Global organic cereal report”. Have a look!

 Global Organic Cereal Production

(Schott, Sanders, 2017, pdf-document 552 KB)

 

 

 


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