Darkest of black holes for some.
Boring for others.

Allows some very interesting perspectives to be gained either between
countries or within a country, and values/ amounts of various items to
be seen.

International food and Agricultural commodities production by
commodity, country, year.
Newest year =3D 2005.
Viewable in 3 main ways.
Would benefit from addition of $ value to rank tables and rank value
to $ tables.

        Russell McMahon


Examples:

China by relative ranking
Amazing!
1st in world in 45 products.

   http://www.fao.org/es/ess/top/topproduction.html?lang=3Den&country=3D351=
&year=3D2005

Hen eggs by country 2005
Figures are $1000s so top amount is $21 billion pa.

      http://www.fao.org/es/ess/top/commodity.html?item=3D1062&lang=3Den&ye=
ar=3D2005

India by $  - relative value of items

      http://www.fao.org/es/ess/top/country.html?lang=3Den&country=3D100&ye=
ar=3D2005


3 modes:
_________

Selected commodity.
Ordered by country based on $ value.
$ value and metric tonnes pa shown.

This page presents the 20 highest producing countries of a specific
food and agricultural commodity for the year indicated.

      http://www.fao.org/es/ess/top/commodity.html?item=3D987&lang=3Den&yea=
r=3D2005

____________

Single country - ordered by $ rank for country with international rank
shown but no $ value.

This page presents production of the 20 most important food and
agricultural commodities (ranked by value) in a given country for the
year indicated.

      http://www.fao.org/es/ess/top/country.html?country=3D156&lang=3Den&ye=
ar=3D2005

________________

No $ value.

This page presents the rank of the country amongst all other countries
,for each agricultural commodity, for any given year. As such it can
be used not just to see where a countries standing is today but can
show changes over time.

      http://www.fao.org/es/ess/top/topproduction.html?lang=3Den


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When applicable International commodity prices are used, to calculate
the total value of each commodity produced by each country and
subsequently used in the ranking of commodities and countries. They
are applied in order to avoid the use of exchange rates for obtaining
continental and world aggregates, and also to improve and facilitate
international comparative analysis of productivity at the national
level.
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