Agriculture in Japan: production, rankings and trends
Main agricultural products in Japan with FAOSTAT histories, records, yields and global rankings.
Products157products with a statistical page
Best world positionN°2best rank among tracked products
Products ranked world #10products currently ranked first
Top-10 products25products in the global top ten
What the data show
The currently eligible series for Japan cover 157 products. 0 products currently place Japan at world rank #1. In total, 25 products rank in the global Top 10.
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How many products are covered for Japan?
157 products currently have an eligible page in this language.
What is best world rank?
Best position means the highest rank reached among tracked products. For Japan it is #2, and 0 products currently rank world #1.
What is the source of Japan agricultural data?
The core series come from FAOSTAT. Terra Cultiva then calculates trends, records and rankings.
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| Product | Metric | Latest value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cereals, primary | Production | 11.40M t 2024 | #36 |
| Rice | Production | 10.14M t 2024 | #12 |
| Vegetables Primary | Production | 9.83M t 2024 | #14 |
| Sugar Crops Primary | Production | 4.64M t 2024 | #41 |
| Sugar beet | Production | 3.49M t 2024 | #17 |
| Roots and Tubers, Total | Production | 3.29M t 2024 | #44 |
| Other vegetables, fresh n.e.c. | Production | 2.74M t 2024 | #10 |
| Fruit Primary | Production | 2.74M t 2024 | #51 |
| Hen eggs in shell, fresh | Production | 2.48M t 2024 | #8 |
| Potatoes | Production | 2.24M t 2024 | #29 |
| Cabbages | Production | 1.41M t 2024 | #7 |
| Sugar cane | Production | 1.16M t 2024 | #52 |
| Onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) | Production | 1.09M t 2024 | #21 |
| Wheat | Production | 1.03M t 2024 | #52 |
| Citrus Fruit, Total | Production | 720.5k t 2024 | #28 |
| Sweet potatoes | Production | 717.0k t 2024 | #18 |
| Tomatoes | Production | 662.6k t 2024 | #37 |
| Apples | Production | 658.4k t 2024 | #21 |
| Tangerines, mandarins, clementines | Production | 633.0k t 2024 | #14 |
| Carrots and turnips | Production | 572.8k t 2024 | #13 |
| Lettuce and chicory | Production | 555.8k t 2024 | #8 |
| Cucumbers and gherkins | Production | 502.9k t 2024 | #10 |
| Onions and shallots, green | Production | 488.9k t 2024 | #4 |
| Tea leaves | Production | 319.3k t 2024 | #11 |
| Watermelons | Production | 290.4k t 2024 | #31 |
| Eggplants (aubergines) | Production | 280.2k t 2024 | #11 |
| Soya beans | Production | 252.4k t 2024 | #25 |
| Green corn (maize) | Production | 207.3k t 2024 | #12 |
| Oilcrops, Cake Equivalent | Production | 206.9k t 2024 | #55 |
| Spinach | Production | 200.1k t 2024 | #5 |
| Pears | Production | 198.1k t 2024 | #11 |
| Cauliflowers and broccoli | Production | 194.0k t 2024 | #13 |
| Barley | Production | 185.6k t 2024 | #54 |
| Persimmons | Production | 167.3k t 2024 | #5 |
| Yams | Production | 165.7k t 2024 | #16 |
| Grapes | Production | 164.6k t 2024 | #42 |
| Pumpkins, squash and gourds | Production | 163.6k t 2024 | #31 |
| Strawberries | Production | 160.3k t 2024 | #11 |
| Chillies and peppers, green (Capsicum spp. and Pimenta spp.) | Production | 143.0k t 2024 | #27 |
| Cantaloupes and other melons | Production | 142.3k t 2024 | #21 |
| Taro | Production | 118.5k t 2024 | #11 |
| Peaches and nectarines | Production | 109.7k t 2024 | #22 |
| Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c., fresh | Production | 54.9k t 2024 | #17 |
| Pulses, Total | Production | 53.6k t 2024 | #88 |
| Beans, dry | Production | 52.4k t 2024 | #49 |
| Apricots | Production | 51.6k t 2024 | #17 |
| Oilcrops, Oil Equivalent | Production | 51.1k t 2024 | #80 |
| Other citrus fruit, n.e.c. | Production | 50.8k t 2024 | #17 |
| Ginger, raw | Production | 45.1k t 2024 | #11 |
| Buckwheat | Production | 40.4k t 2024 | #7 |
| String beans | Production | 29.9k t 2024 | #9 |
| Oranges | Production | 28.1k t 2024 | #66 |
| Asparagus | Production | 25.4k t 2024 | #9 |
| Peas, green | Production | 20.9k t 2024 | #30 |
| Kiwi fruit | Production | 20.7k t 2024 | #12 |
| Green garlic | Production | 20.6k t 2024 | #37 |
| Plums and sloes | Production | 16.4k t 2024 | #44 |
| Groundnuts, excluding shelled | Production | 14.8k t 2024 | #55 |
| Treenuts, Total | Production | 14.0k t 2024 | #67 |
| Chestnuts, in shell | Production | 14.0k t 2024 | #9 |
| Figs | Production | 12.4k t 2024 | #19 |
| Cherries | Production | 11.5k t 2024 | #25 |
| Broad beans and horse beans, green | Production | 11.1k t 2024 | #29 |
| Lemons and limes | Production | 8.7k t 2024 | #58 |
| Unmanufactured tobacco | Production | 8.3k t 2024 | #43 |
| Pineapples | Production | 6.5k t 2024 | #56 |
| Mangoes, guavas and mangosteens | Production | 3.5k t 2024 | #71 |
| Rape or colza seed | Production | 3.1k t 2024 | #55 |
| Other stone fruits | Production | 2.2k t 2024 | #16 |
| Peas, dry | Production | 1.1k t 2024 | #77 |
| Hop cones | Production | 646 t 2024 | #14 |
| Oats | Production | 312 t 2024 | #70 |
| Millet | Production | 251 t 2024 | #67 |
| Maize (corn) | Production | 169 t 2024 | #155 |
| Quinces | Production | 150 t 2024 | #32 |
| Broad beans and horse beans, dry | Production | 97 t 2024 | #63 |
| Peppermint, spearmint | Production | 33 t 2024 | #4 |
| Bananas | Production | 18 t 2024 | #116 |
| Sesame seed | Production | 14 t 2024 | #69 |
| Currants | Production | 8.9 t 2024 | #38 |
| Fibre Crops, Fibre Equivalent | Production | 0.57 t 2024 | #112 |
| True hemp, raw or retted | Production | 0.57 t 2024 | #20 |
| Raw milk of cattle | Production | 7.36M t 2024 | #25 |
| Milk, Total | Production | 7.36M t 2024 | #25 |
| Eggs Primary | Production | 2.48M t 2024 | #8 |
| Meat, Poultry | Production | 2.47M t 2024 | #11 |
| Meat of chickens, fresh or chilled | Production | 2.47M t 2024 | #10 |
| Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled | Production | 1.26M t 2024 | #16 |
| Meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled | Production | 461.9k t 2024 | #27 |
| Beef and Buffalo Meat, primary | Production | 461.9k t 2024 | #29 |
| Fat of pigs | Production | 151.9k t 2024 | #8 |
| Edible offal of pigs, fresh, chilled or frozen | Production | 135.4k t 2024 | #9 |
| Cattle fat, unrendered | Production | 70.5k t 2024 | #9 |
| Edible offal of cattle, fresh, chilled or frozen | Production | 47.0k t 2024 | #35 |
| Raw hides and skins of cattle | Production | 24.4k t 2024 | #45 |
| Horse meat, fresh or chilled | Production | 4.1k t 2024 | #19 |
| Edible offals of horses and other equines, fresh, chilled or frozen | Production | 384 t 2024 | #19 |
| Sheep and Goat Meat | Production | 253 t 2024 | #155 |
| Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled | Production | 226 t 2024 | #140 |
| Raw hides and skins of sheep or lambs | Production | 39 t 2024 | #116 |
| Edible offal of sheep, fresh, chilled or frozen | Production | 37 t 2024 | #116 |
| Meat of goat, fresh or chilled | Production | 27 t 2024 | #149 |
| Sheep fat, unrendered | Production | 26 t 2024 | #110 |
| Meat of turkeys, fresh or chilled | Production | 7.8 t 2024 | #60 |
| Raw hides and skins of goats or kids | Production | 6.9 t 2024 | #128 |
| Edible offal of goat, fresh, chilled or frozen | Production | 5.6 t 2024 | #129 |
| Goat fat, unrendered | Production | 1.8 t 2024 | #121 |
| Swine / pigs | Stocks | 8.80M head 2024 | #19 |
| Meat, Total | Production | 4.20M t 2024 | #18 |
| Cattle | Stocks | 3.99M head 2024 | #59 |
| Cattle and Buffaloes | Stocks | 3.99M head 2024 | #61 |
| Beer of barley, malted | Production | 2.00M t 2023 | #20 |
| Skim milk of cows | Production | 1.60M t 2023 | #23 |
| Rapeseed or canola oil, crude | Production | 856.5k t 2023 | #9 |
| Raw cane or beet sugar (centrifugal only) | Production | 577.0k t 2023 | #35 |
| Mushrooms and truffles | Production | 494.8k t 2024 | #2 |
| Soya bean oil | Production | 494.0k t 2023 | #14 |
| Poultry Birds | Stocks | 315.64M head 2024 | #14 |
| Chickens | Stocks | 315.64M head 2024 | #14 |
| Margarine and shortening | Production | 313.4k t 2023 | #11 |
| Bees | Stocks | 199.3k units 2024 | #46 |
| Cheese (All Kinds) | Production | 151.4k t 2023 | #30 |
| Molasses | Production | 138.5k t 2023 | #42 |
| Skim Milk & Buttermilk, Dry | Production | 122.6k t 2023 | #14 |
| Skim milk and whey powder | Production | 109.2k t 2023 | #12 |
| Cheese from skimmed cow milk | Production | 106.3k t 2023 | #9 |
| Oil of maize | Production | 75.5k t 2023 | #8 |
| Butter of cow milk | Production | 67.3k t 2023 | #20 |
| Butter and Ghee | Production | 67.3k t 2023 | #25 |
| Pig fat, rendered | Production | 55.0k t 2023 | #16 |
| Oil of sesame seed | Production | 54.9k t 2023 | #4 |
| Wine | Production | 48.0k t 2023 | #30 |
| Whole milk powder | Production | 43.4k t 2023 | #17 |
| Evaporated & Condensed Milk | Production | 40.0k t 2023 | #27 |
| Whole milk, evaporated | Production | 36.5k t 2023 | #11 |
| Sheep and Goats | Stocks | 31.6k head 2024 | #157 |
| Goats | Stocks | 16.5k head 2024 | #147 |
| Sheep | Stocks | 15.2k head 2024 | #151 |
| Horses | Stocks | 13.2k head 2024 | #89 |
| Cottonseed oil | Production | 4.6k t 2023 | #41 |
| Skim milk, condensed | Production | 3.5k t 2023 | #7 |
| Natural honey | Production | 2.6k t 2024 | #61 |
| Other meat of mammals, fresh or chilled | Production | 2.5k t 2024 | #23 |
| Oil of linseed | Production | 951 t 2023 | #34 |
| Groundnut oil | Production | 183 t 2023 | #82 |
| Silk-worm cocoons suitable for reeling | Production | 38 t 2024 | #16 |
| Raw silk (not thrown) | Production | 10 t 2023 | #13 |
| Turkeys | Stocks | 2.0k head 2024 | #63 |
| Green tea (not fermented), black tea (fermented) and partly fermented tea, in immediate packings of a content not exceeding 3 kg | Production | 75.2k t 2023 | #10 |
| Sunflower-seed oil, crude | Production | 0.00 t 2023 | #82 |
| Other oil seeds, n.e.c. | Production | 29.0k t 1996 | — |
| Safflower-seed oil, crude | Production | 0.00 t 2023 | #18 |
| Coconut oil | Production | 0.00 t 2023 | #68 |
| Rye | Production | 0.00 t 1992 | — |
| Flax, raw or retted | Production | 0.00 t 1992 | — |
| Cow peas, dry | Production | 0.00 t 1998 | — |
| Pyrethrum, dried flowers | Production | 0.00 t 1992 | — |