date:Jan 21, 2019
In 2017, Spain grew 4 times as many tomatoes as Morocco and 5.5 times more than the Netherlands. Turkey grew twice as much as Spain. China, the number one producer in the world, grew 11.5 times more than Spain. The total world production amounted to more than 180,000 million kilos, grown on an area of almost 5 million hectares.
According to data from Hortoinfo, supplied by Faostat, 182,301 million kilos of tomatoes were cultivated worldwide in 2017, which meant that a historic record was reache