7123.3.55.001 - Agricultural State Profile, Queensland, 2001-02  
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 02/09/2003   
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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

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