🌍 Celebrating a Milestone: How Global Food Production Achieved Record-Breaking Success in 2023! 🍽️

In 2024, global food production hit new highs for key crops like rice, wheat, and soybeans. The latest report from the US Department of Agriculture highlights these remarkable achievements.

• Rice reached record levels, significantly surpassing previous outputs.
• Soybean production surged, showing strong growth compared to last year.
• Wheat saw a smaller uptick but still held steady at high levels.
• Corn production remained robust, matching the output from 2021.

Most staple crops yielded more per hectare than in previous years. Corn and rice production, for instance, reached impressive figures—up to 6 tonnes for corn and about 5 tonnes for rice per hectare. Wheat and soybeans also performed well, yielding around 3.5 tonnes and 3 tonnes per hectare, respectively.

Successes in Other Crops

Other crops had varying results as well. Coffee production hit its third-highest level ever, with 176.5 million bags harvested. This only trails behind the records set in 2018 and 2020.

Sugar production was impressive too, coming in as the second-highest ever, just behind the 2017 harvest. Cotton also thrived, marking the fourth highest yield recorded, with farmers achieving 843 kilograms per hectare.

In the realm of fruit, farmers enjoyed record harvests of pears, cherries, and lemons. Meanwhile, orange and apple production remained steady but didn’t quite break any new records.