7123.3.55.001 - Agricultural State Profile, Queensland, 2001-02

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Queensland's tropical and subtropical climate makes it Australia's main producer of a variety of cereal crops, citrus, tropical and exotic fruits and vegetables for human consumption. The normally moist summer conditions, compared with the relatively dry summers in other states, have contributed to a considerable increase in the production of summer-growing crops such as grain sorghum, peanuts, sunflowers and soybeans.

PRINCIPAL CROPS, Queensland, 2001-02


	Production '000 t	Area '000 ha	Yield t/ha

Sugar cane cut for crushing	28,250.4	398.2	70.9
Bananas	265.8	9.5	27.9
Pineapples	119.3	3.0	40.3
Watermelons	^ 63.1	^ 2.9	21.7
Potatoes	117.9	4.6	25.8

^ data subject to sampling variability between 10% and 25%

Source: Agricultural Commodities, Australia (cat. no. 7121.0).

This section contains the following subsection :
Bananas
Grain sorghum
Pineapples
Potatoes
Sugar cane
Watermelons
Wheat