Banana is the fruit cultivated around the world, the fruit famous and used widely as part of the food. Banana is healthy and tasty, hundreds of types of Bananas found with different tastes, sizes, and colors. Usually, Bananas cultivated and sold locally as it no longer stays fresh. The total world production of bananas is over 145 million tonnes as per statistics 2013.
India is the world’s largest producer of banana with around 30 million tonnes of production annually, south Indian states produce most of them and exports to other states of the country. China, the Philippines, and Ecuador are the largest Bananas producers respectively after India. The production of bananas rising every year as its demand growing. Banana is the largest cultivated fruit and the fourth-largest cultivated food after Rice, Wheat, and Maize. Ecuador, Costa Rica, and Colombia are the largest exporters of bananas, it exports around 17 million tonnes of banana every year.
| Rank | Country | Production (in Tonnes) | Production Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | India | 29,666,973 | $8,355,139,000 |
| 2 | Uganda | 12,000,000 | $3,107,962,000 |
| 3 | China, mainland | 10,400,000 | $2,928,962,000 |
| 4 | Philippines | 9,165,043 | $2,323,044,000 |
| 5 | Ecuador | 7,427,776 | $2,091,891,000 |
| 6 | Brazil | 7,329,471 | $2,064,206,000 |
| 7 | Indonesia | 6,132,695 | $1,727,157,000 |
| 8 | United Republic of Tanzania | 3,143,835 | $885,401,000 |
| 9 | Angola | 2,646,073 | $745,216,000 |
| 10 | Guatemala | 2,679,934 | $726,589,000 |
| 11 | Mexico | 2,138,687 | $602,320,000 |
| 12 | Costa Rica | 1,937,122 | $531,472,000 |
| 13 | Burundi | 1,848,727 | $520,658,000 |
| 14 | Colombia | 2,042,925 | $517,685,000 |
| 15 | Thailand | 1,600,000 | $450,609,000 |
| 16 | Viet Nam | 1,523,428 | $429,044,000 |
| 17 | Cameroon | 1,394,675 | $392,783,000 |
| 18 | Kenya | 1,197,988 | $337,390,000 |
| 19 | Egypt | 1,054,243 | $296,907,000 |
| 20 | Papua New Guinea | 1,000,000 | $253,467,000 |
| 21 | Dominican Republic | 829,827 | $233,705,000 |
Note: The Production value is estimation, the value of the banana could have changed meanwhile.