Top Ten Date-Producing Countries,2001

Dates are sweet and many people eat them. There are many countries which produce the dates. In this essay I am going to tell you about the top ten date – producing countries in 2001.

The biggest producing country is Egypt, with around 1,100,000 tonnes. Iran came after Egypt and produced nearly 850,000 tonnes. Following them come Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Each country produced about 780,000 tonnes. Iraq and Pakistan rivalled other with about 630,000 tonnes each. Algeria supplied the world with nearly 400,000 tonnes and Oman around a quarter of a million. Finally, Sudan’s and Libya’s crops yielded under 0.2 million each.

In summary, there were six countries which produced over half a million tonnes a year, and Egypt was the leading producer.