FAOSTAT · 2024
Agricultural production in Brazil
According to FAOSTAT, Brazil produced 139 million t of cereals (4th in the world), 9.3 million t of vegetables (16th in the world), 41.6 million t of fruit (3rd in the world), 29.6 million t of meat (3rd in the world) and 36.9 million t of milk (5th in the world) in 2024. Its largest crops by volume were sugar cane (760 million t), soybeans (144 million t) and maize (115 million t).
- Products recorded
- 131
- World #1
- 9
- products
- World top 10
- 78
- products
- Year
- 2024
Brazil is the world’s largest producer of sugar cane, soybeans, raw sugar, molasses, oranges and 4 more products, and ranks second or third for 24 other products.
Among its twelve largest crops, the biggest ten-year change was in cotton seed (+109%), followed by seed cotton (+101%).
Livestock numbers: 238 million cattle, 43.9 million pigs, 21.9 million sheep and 13.3 million goats.
Totals by group
| Group | Tonnes | World rank | Share | 10-year change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All sugar crops | 759,662,482 | 1 | 34% | +3.2% |
| All cereals | 138,980,899 | 4 | 4.44% | +37% |
| All fruit | 41,573,863 | 3 | 4.36% | +2.3% |
| All milk | 36,850,178 | 5 | 3.74% | +1.8% |
| All meat | 29,642,575 | 3 | 7.93% | +15% |
| All roots and tubers | 24,476,757 | 7 | 2.59% | −12% |
| All citrus fruit | 18,507,971 | 2 | 11.17% | −3.0% |
| All vegetables | 9,310,280 | 16 | 0.79% | +3.9% |
| All eggs | 3,734,849 | 5 | 3.74% | +43% |
| All pulses | 3,031,886 | 9 | 3.12% | −8.3% |
| All tree nuts | 201,501 | 18 | 1.09% | +31% |
All products by volume, 2024
| Product | Tonnes | World rank | Share | 10-year change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sugar cane | 759,662,482 | 1 | 39.16% | +3.2% |
| Soybeans | 144,473,768 | 1 | 36.33% | +67% |
| Maize | 114,953,303 | 3 | 9.44% | +44% |
| Raw sugar | 41,967,508 | 1 | 22.38% | +6.3% |
| Cow milk | 36,816,178 | 4 | 4.62% | +1.8% |
| Cassava | 19,066,096 | 5 | 5.58% | −18% |
| Molasses | 18,301,393 | 1 | 24.97% | +16% |
| Beer | 17,886,670 | 3 | 9.67% | +33% |
| Oranges | 15,688,409 | 1 | 23.33% | −7.3% |
| Chicken meat | 13,714,702 | 3 | 10.69% | +9.7% |
| Soya bean oil | 10,890,989 | 3 | 18.18% | +54% |
| Rice (paddy) | 10,671,490 | 11 | 1.3% | −12% |
| Beef (cattle meat) | 10,237,584 | 2 | 14.68% | +5.3% |
| Seed cotton | 8,523,606 | 4 | 11.71% | +101% |
| Wheat | 7,633,178 | 19 | 0.96% | +22% |
| Bananas | 7,046,345 | 5 | 5.05% | +1.3% |
| Pork (pig meat) | 5,358,897 | 3 | 4.27% | +68% |
| Cotton seed | 4,494,600 | 3 | 10.96% | +109% |
| Tomatoes | 4,407,502 | 9 | 2.34% | +2.4% |
| Potatoes | 4,183,933 | 18 | 1.07% | +13% |
| Sorghum | 4,090,428 | 7 | 6.36% | +80% |
| Hen eggs | 3,700,049 | 5 | 3.95% | +45% |
| Coffee, green | 3,387,724 | 1 | 30.02% | +21% |
| Skim milk of cows | 3,270,603 | 12 | 2.29% | +45% |
| Oil palm fruit | 3,222,018 | 8 | 0.77% | +131% |
| Coconuts, in shell | 3,158,018 | 4 | 4.82% | +8.2% |
| Other vegetables, fresh n.e.c. | 3,051,044 | 9 | 1.08% | +4.6% |
| Beans, dry | 3,018,459 | 2 | 9.97% | −8.4% |
| Cotton lint | 2,923,677 | 3 | 11.84% | +159% |
| Other tropical fruits, n.e.c. | 2,478,342 | 4 | 10.36% | +201% |
| Mangoes and guavas | 2,395,931 | 5 | 3.85% | +61% |
| Pineapples | 2,223,204 | 4 | 7.57% | −16% |
| Watermelons | 1,978,702 | 5 | 1.89% | −8.9% |
| Grapes | 1,820,104 | 12 | 2.4% | +25% |
| Lemons and limes | 1,718,010 | 6 | 7.4% | +56% |
| Onions, dry | 1,678,902 | 13 | 1.55% | +2.0% |
| Edible offal of cattle, fresh, chilled or frozen | 1,316,261 | 2 | 13.58% | +5.3% |
| Papayas | 1,149,300 | 4 | 7.84% | −28% |
| Cashewapple | 1,134,824 | 1 | 81.87% | −35% |
| Oats | 1,091,883 | 7 | 4.87% | +153% |
| Tallow | 1,082,461 | 2 | 13.14% | +65% |
| Raw hides and skins of cattle | 1,023,758 | 3 | 11.68% | +5.3% |
| Tangerines and mandarins | 1,016,575 | 7 | 1.96% | +5.3% |
| Apples | 997,470 | 14 | 1.02% | −28% |
| Sweet potatoes | 970,050 | 14 | 1.07% | +85% |
| Margarine and shortening | 904,975 | 2 | 6.87% | +70% |
| Maté leaves | 841,255 | 2 | 42.12% | +40% |
| Melons | 816,939 | 5 | 2.89% | +39% |
| Groundnuts (peanuts) | 806,064 | 10 | 1.4% | +100% |
| Pig fat, rendered | 678,200 | 2 | 10.99% | +51% |
| Tobacco, unmanufactured | 637,749 | 3 | 10.54% | −26% |
| Palm oil | 637,353 | 9 | 0.8% | +88% |
| Fat of pigs | 635,412 | 3 | 5.59% | +68% |
| Whole milk powder | 559,251 | 3 | 11.14% | +1.9% |
| Barley | 427,956 | 40 | 0.3% | +70% |
| Avocados | 427,457 | 7 | 3.81% | +173% |
| Sesame seed | 399,400 | 7 | 5.98% | +2,753% |
| Cottonseed oil | 378,170 | 3 | 9.06% | +37% |
| Edible offal of pigs, fresh, chilled or frozen | 352,156 | 4 | 4.29% | +68% |
| Cattle fat, unrendered | 334,288 | 3 | 9.79% | +5.3% |
| Rapeseed | 309,200 | 21 | 0.35% | +462% |
| Oil of maize | 306,786 | 3 | 9.96% | +225% |
| Cocoa beans | 297,509 | 7 | 5.68% | +8.7% |
| Wine | 263,943 | 16 | 1.08% | −3.4% |
| Natural rubber | 263,672 | 12 | 1.78% | +37% |
| Yams | 256,678 | 11 | 0.28% | +3.9% |
| Palm kernels | 195,000 | 7 | 1.01% | −14% |
| Strawberries | 193,804 | 8 | 1.81% | +73% |
| Peaches and nectarines | 190,389 | 16 | 0.68% | −9.8% |
| Persimmons | 177,610 | 4 | 3.53% | −2.6% |
| Green garlic | 172,832 | 12 | 0.58% | +84% |
| Cashew nuts, in shell | 159,212 | 7 | 3.75% | +48% |
| Turkey meat | 150,717 | 9 | 2.96% | −54% |
| Butter of cow milk | 145,582 | 11 | 2.43% | +51% |
| Pepper (black, white) | 124,925 | 3 | 13.38% | +195% |
| Groundnut oil | 110,200 | 8 | 1.71% | +64% |
| Sheep meat | 109,300 | 23 | 0.95% | +27% |
| Other fibre crops, raw, n.e.c. | 102,553 | 2 | 15.54% | +1.8% |
| Sisal | 93,261 | 1 | 39.86% | −32% |
| Sunflower seed | 90,221 | 28 | 0.17% | −43% |
| Grapefruit and pomelos | 84,977 | 15 | 0.86% | +8.3% |
| Whole milk, condensed | 79,982 | 7 | 4.07% | +39% |
| Honey | 67,314 | 7 | 3.39% | +75% |
| Buckwheat | 64,996 | 6 | 3.3% | +1.6% |
| Cheese from whole cow milk | 58,386 | 43 | 0.25% | +38% |
| Other oil seeds, n.e.c. | 55,712 | 7 | 2.3% | +71% |
| Triticale | 42,411 | 21 | 0.34% | −18% |
| Goat meat | 42,128 | 21 | 0.54% | +39% |
| Castor oil seeds | 39,844 | 3 | 2.2% | +6.0% |
| Rapeseed or canola oil, crude | 37,100 | 41 | 0.12% | +88% |
| Brazil nuts, in shell | 34,909 | 1 | 43.78% | −6.9% |
| Eggs from other birds in shell, fresh, n.e.c. | 34,800 | 6 | 0.55% | −34% |
| Goat milk | 34,000 | 50 | 0.17% | +31% |
| Sunflower-seed oil, crude | 32,000 | 35 | 0.14% | −28% |
| Horse meat, fresh or chilled | 22,234 | 7 | 2.98% | +0.7% |
| Edible offal of sheep, fresh, chilled or frozen | 20,623 | 21 | 1.04% | +27% |
| Figs | 20,586 | 14 | 1.54% | −27% |
| Raw hides and skins of sheep or lambs | 19,385 | 20 | 0.89% | +27% |
| Cheese from skimmed cow milk | 16,286 | 21 | 0.6% | +271% |
| Buttermilk, dry | 15,130 | 16 | 2.31% | — |
| Pears | 14,473 | 48 | 0.05% | −24% |
| Coconut oil | 12,403 | 15 | 0.4% | +520% |
| Broad beans and horse beans, dry | 10,502 | 36 | 0.17% | +37% |
| Cream, fresh | 9,627 | 38 | 0.26% | +36% |
| Edible offal of goat, fresh, chilled or frozen | 9,086 | 22 | 0.61% | +39% |
| Raw hides and skins of goats or kids | 7,517 | 22 | 0.49% | +39% |
| Wool, greasy | 7,472 | 35 | 0.44% | −37% |
| Duck meat | 5,722 | 29 | 0.08% | −29% |
| Rye | 5,254 | 39 | 0.05% | +18% |
| Edible offals of horses and other equines, fresh, chilled or frozen | 4,697 | 6 | 4.94% | +0.7% |
| Kenaf | 4,547 | 8 | 1.98% | −44% |
| Olives | 4,499 | 32 | 0.02% | +779% |
| Walnuts, in shell | 4,307 | 35 | 0.1% | −21% |
| Linseed | 3,795 | 20 | 0.13% | −22% |
| Sheep fat, unrendered | 3,506 | 28 | 0.55% | +27% |
| Oil of linseed | 3,100 | 18 | 0.4% | −21% |
| Other nuts | 3,073 | 37 | 0.28% | +7.7% |
| Peas, dry | 2,925 | 65 | 0.02% | −21% |
| Other stimulant, spice and aromatic crops, n.e.c. | 2,663 | 29 | 0.08% | — |
| Tea leaves | 2,011 | 35 | 0.01% | −67% |
| Beeswax | 1,796 | 9 | 2.78% | +5.6% |
| Silk-worm cocoons suitable for reeling | 1,581 | 8 | 0.34% | −41% |
| Goat fat, unrendered | 1,487 | 20 | 0.47% | +39% |
| Rabbit meat | 1,291 | 17 | 0.15% | −17% |
| Jute, raw or retted | 926 | 10 | 0.03% | −21% |
| Natural gums (balata, chicle) | 870 | 2 | 3.64% | −78% |
| Tea, packed | 463 | 73 | 0.01% | −39% |
| Quinces | 411 | 30 | 0.06% | −28% |
| Tung nuts | 345 | 6 | 0.08% | +14% |
| Raw silk (not thrown) | 330 | 6 | 0.35% | −24% |
| Whole milk, evaporated | 70 | 60 | 0% | +40% |
Live animals, 2024
| Product | Head | World rank | Share | 10-year change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chickens | 1,581,216,000 | 4 | 5.71% | +20% |
| Cattle | 238,180,757 | 1 | 15.09% | +12% |
| Pigs | 43,914,785 | 3 | 4.56% | +16% |
| Sheep | 21,862,326 | 18 | 1.6% | +24% |
| Goats | 13,292,844 | 20 | 1.12% | +50% |
| Turkeys | 6,364,000 | 9 | 2.61% | −51% |
| Horses | 5,702,612 | 3 | 10.14% | +4.6% |
| Ducks | 3,312,000 | 24 | 0.26% | −14% |
| Buffalo | 1,805,145 | 9 | 0.85% | +37% |
| Mules and hinnies | 1,155,776 | 2 | 14.98% | −8.0% |
| Bees | 1,039,216 | 16 | 1.02% | +1.9% |
| Asses | 739,539 | 15 | 1.37% | −20% |
| Rabbits and hares | 191,000 | 25 | 0.09% | −13% |
Source: FAO. 2025. FAOSTAT: Crops and livestock products. Accessed on 4 November 2026. fao.org/faostat. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Charts, rankings and changes calculated by Husfarm.