Commercial Production
Annual world production (as of 2007) of cultivated cherry fruit is about two million tonnes. Around 40% of world production originates in Europe and around 13% in the United States.
| Top Cherry Producing Nations - 2009 (in thousand metric tons) |
|
|---|---|
| Turkey | 417.7 |
| United States | 390.7 |
| Iran | 225.0 |
| Italy | 116.2 |
| Spain | 96.4 |
| Syria | 78.3 |
| Russia | 69.0 |
| Romania | 67.9 |
| Uzbekistan | 67.0 |
| Chile | 56.0 |
| France | 53.6 |
| Ukraine | 53.0 |
| Poland | 50.5 |
| Greece | 48.0 |
| Germany | 39.5 |
| Lebanon | 34.7 |
| Austria | 30.3 |
| Serbia | 29.2 |
| China | 27.0 |
| Japan | 18.0 |
| Bulgaria | 17.4 |
| Armenia | 15.0 |
| Canada | 14.6 |
| Australia | 13.7 |
| Kazakhstan | 13.0 |
| India | 12.7 |
| Portugal | 11.2 |
| Albania | 10.9 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 10.7 |
| Switzerland | 10.2 |
| Moldova | 9.0 |
| Hungary | 8.1 |
| Morocco | 7.4 |
| Croatia | 7.1 |
| Azerbaijan | 6.9 |
| World Total | 2,196.1 |
| Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | |
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