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
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