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Which country is the world's second largest agricultural exporter? 

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This paper identifies especially Cote d’Ivoire’s commodities export and shipping market structure with its main agricultural products which makes him the world’s dominant producer and exporter of cocoa beans.
The current total annual production of 3.5 million metric tons (24) ranks second in the world-only China produces more-and the US exports -42% of its cotton, making it the second leading cotton exporter behind the collective nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS, formerly USSR).
This article proposes that a more correct, balanced, and disaggregated outlook on the classification of countries is needed because one single “developing country” (China) is the single biggest exporter of creative goods in the world (25.51 per cent in 2010) yet the 49 “least developed countries” account for merely 0.11 per cent of creative goods exports (in 2010) while they comprise 880 million people (or some 12 per cent of the world's population).
In contrast, mainland China is the leading exporter, mainly due to the massive exports of commodities ‘Made in China’.
The five East Asian countries of Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Singapore could provide the largest export markets in the world for U. S. agricultural products.
Argentina offers an interesting case study as the only large agricultural exporter that has, at many points in its history, applied export taxes to several of its agricultural products.
Findings One of the principal findings is that for an agricultural exporter firm, there is an optimal decision between exporting to another country and selling the commodity in the national market.
Taking into account that Mexico is the world's largest exporter of this fruit in terms of quantity; we can conclude that a relatively small area produces most of the blackberries that are traded worldwide.
As was seen in the previous chapter, agriculture is still of particular significance to the EU, as it is the major importer and the second largest exporter of food products in the world.
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Y. Daya, T. Ranoto, M. A. Letsoalo 
06 Dec 2006
Findings: South Africa is the most active country in intra-Africa agricultural trade.
The country has become the region’s largest exporter of fresh fruits, vegetables and cut flowers to Europe and the sector is a major source of foreign exchange, employment and poverty reduction.
have revealed that Pakistan is the most competitive country in rice trade and ranks first in both agricultural product trade and total merchandise exports.
However, this is strongly influenced by the amount of agricultural exports of each country.
The more than $300 billion of agricultural support that is provided annually by OECD countries, disadvantages developing country exporters and causes distortions in importers.
Recent published research has shown that the export policies and agricultural resource endowment of the developing country offer significant explanations for this export growth.
This paper helps the farmers and the policy makers in identifying the second best-alternative crop for obtaining the sustainable agricultural production.
As for the first method, the estimation results of the widely-used inter-country aggregate agricultural production function show that a country with better governance can produce more agricultural outputs, given the same amounts of agricultural inputs, the same education level, and the same climate condition.