Production Volume
| Tangerines, mandarins, clementines Top ten producers in 2007 (1000 tonnes) |
|
|---|---|
| People's Republic of China | 15,185 |
| Spain | 1,974 |
| Brazil | 1,206 |
| Japan | 1,066 |
| Morocco | 1,042 |
| South Korea | 778 |
| Egypt | 748 |
| Turkey | 744 |
| Iran | 702 |
| Thailand | 670 |
| Pakistan | 640 |
| All other | 4,156 |
| World total | 27,869 |
| Source: UN Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO), |
|
The "Clemenules" (or "Nules", the Valencian town where it was bred) accounts for the great majority of clementines produced in the world. Spain alone has over 200,000 acres (800 km²), producing fruit between November and January. Mandarins marketed as tangerines are usually Dancy, Sunburst or Murcott (Honey) cultivars.
Read more about this topic: Mandarin Orange
Famous quotes containing the words production and/or volume:
“The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“A tattered copy of Johnson’s large Dictionary was a great delight to me, on account of the specimens of English versifications which I found in the Introduction. I learned them as if they were so many poems. I used to keep this old volume close to my pillow; and I amused myself when I awoke in the morning by reciting its jingling contrasts of iambic and trochaic and dactylic metre, and thinking what a charming occupation it must be to “make up” verses.”
—Lucy Larcom (1824–1893)