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Agriculture

  • People might eat oats when they're hungry, but people from Hungary don't eat oats.
  • What is in a name? More than 90% of people in Bhutan, Burundi and Burkina Faso are involved in agriculture.
  • Iceland has far more tractors per 1000 hectares of cropland than any other nation - more than twice that of the next highest country, Slovenia.
  • Costa Rica leads the world in per capita banana, melon and pineapple exports to the USA. Unsuprisingly, they’re also first in pesticide use.
  • The United States, India and China account for a third of all arable and permanent cropland in the world.
  • China is the textile mill of the world: it leads in cotton production, but also in cotton imports.
  • Australia accounts for more organic cropland than the next 36 countries combined.
  • Ukraine is the breadbasket of Europe, and the world's largest producer of barley and total coarse grain per gdp.