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Table 16: <strong>Organic</strong> rice area by country<br />

country year<br />

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area with <strong>organic</strong> rice<br />

production (hectares)<br />

The World <strong>of</strong> <strong>Organic</strong> Agriculture 2006<br />

share <strong>of</strong> <strong>organic</strong> rice<br />

area covered by <strong>the</strong> fibl<br />

survey 2005/2006<br />

China 2004 60'000 44.67 %<br />

Indonesia 2004 26'000 19.36 %<br />

Philippines 2004 14'134 10.52 %<br />

Korea, Republic <strong>of</strong> 2005 10'725 7.99 %<br />

Thailand 2004 8'349 6.22 %<br />

Italy 2004 6'928 5.16 %<br />

Pakistan 2004 6'360 4.74 %<br />

Uruguay 2004 800 0.60 %<br />

Taiwan 2003 600 0.45 %<br />

Mexico 2005 150 0.11 %<br />

Zambia 2004 88 0.07 %<br />

Hungary 2004 63 0.05 %<br />

Costa Rica 2004 44 0.03 %<br />

Egypt 2005 41 0.03 %<br />

Greece 2004 27 0.02 %<br />

Macedonia, The Fmr Yug Rep.<br />

Total rice area covered by<br />

2005 5 0.00 %<br />

<strong>the</strong> FiBL Survey 2005/2006 134'314 100.00 %<br />

Source: FiBL Survey 2005 / 2006. For <strong>the</strong> information sources for <strong>the</strong> individual countries please check <strong>the</strong><br />

continent tables in <strong>the</strong> continent chapters <strong>of</strong> this book.<br />

Please note: Not for all rice producing countries data were available

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