Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Statistics Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Food and Agriculture Organization Statistics: Production - Crops | Country: United States | Consumer Item: Tomatoes | Agricultural Trade Element: Production, 1961 - 2012. Data-Planet™ Statistical Datasets by Conquest Systems, Inc. Dataset-ID: 067-001-012
Dataset: Presents statistics on the quantity of crops produced, area harvested, and yield per hectare. Area harvested data is reported in hectares; yield in hectogram/hectare; and production and seed data in tons. Crop production data refer to the actual harvested production from the field or orchard and gardens, excluding harvesting and threshing losses and that part of crop not harvested for any reason. Production therefore includes the quantities of the commodity sold in the market (marketed production) and the quantities consumed or used by the producers (auto-consumption). When the production data available refers to a production period falling into two successive calendar years and it is not possible to allocate the relative production to each of them, it is usual to refer production data to that year into which the bulk of the production falls. Yield refers to harvested production per unit of harvested area for crop products. In most cases, yield data are not recorded but obtained by dividing the production data by the data on area harvested. Data on yields of permanent crops are not as reliable as those for temporary crops because most of the area information may correspond to planted area (eg, grapes), or because of the scarcity and unreliability of the area figures reported by the countries (eg, cocoa and coffee).
Presented here are time-series and cross-sectional data from the FAOSTAT database of the Food and Agriculture Organization related to the food supply; forestry; agricultural production, prices, and investment; and trade and use of resources, such as fertilizers, land, and pesticides. As available, data are provided for approximately 245 countries and 35 regional areas from 1961 through the present. The data are typically supplied by governments to FAO Statistics through national publications and FAO questionnaires. Official data have sometimes been supplemented with data from unofficial sources and from other national or international agencies or organizations. In particular, for the European Union member countries, with the exception of Spain, data...