Domestic Supply » Seed - Maize for seed

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China is the top country by maize for seed in the world. As of 2021, maize for seed in China was 2,286 thousand tonnes that accounts for 29.82% of the world's maize for seed. The top 5 countries (others are India, the United States of America, Brazil, and Argentina) account for 61.35% of it. The world's total maize for seed was estimated at 7,666 thousand tonnes in 2021.

Default composition: 56 Maize, 58 Flour of Maize, 64 Starch of Maize, 846 Gluten Feed and Meal; nutrient data only: 57 Germ of Maize, 59 Bran of Maize, 63 Maize gluten

Maize for seed (thousand tonnes)

	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Afghanistan	24	10	11	8	27	20	24	21	12	15	22	14
Albania	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	3	3	3
Algeria	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Angola	36	40	44	58	50	51	61	67	67	67	73	82
Argentina	217	227	203	307	280	332	391	486	427	303	275	298
Armenia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Australia	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Austria	9	9	10	9	9	9	9	9	10	9	10	9
Azerbaijan	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Bahamas	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bangladesh	6	7	8	9	11	12	12	13	13	16	17	17
Barbados	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Belarus	24	25	25	25	25	5	17	16	26	25	25	27
Belgium	20	23	19	22	18	16	13	16	12	17	18	17
Belize	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2
Benin	51	46	35	66	68	20	22	23	24	79	80	75
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	97	87	99	87	90	100	106	112	125	76	76	78
Bosnia and Herzegovina	13	12	12	12	10	10	15	9	16	12	13	13
Botswana	3	9	2	1	7	1	3	3	3	2	15	17
Brazil	315	317	405	457	455	486	366	558	469	301	307	322
Bulgaria	15	14	16	15	32	27	23	26	35	12	19	17
Burkina Faso	21	19	23	23	20	21	23	24	25	20	30	21
Burundi	4	4	4	4	3	4	5	5	5	7	6	5
Cambodia	7	6	7	7	4	4	5	5	4	6	6	6
Cameroon	28	26	29	28	33	35	36	37	39	35	37	35
Canada	14	14	15	16	13	14	13	15	16	18	14	16
Central African Republic	9	9	9	7	5	5	5	5	5	6	6	6
Chad	7	7	9	9	7	8	9	9	9	8	9	8
Chile	2	3	3	3	2	3	2	2	2	7	5	6
China	1,539	1,673	1,784	1,896	2,007	2,336	2,295	2,212	2,193	2,160	2,168	2,286
China, Taiwan Province of	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1
Colombia	10	9	19	19	15	12	13	10	10	7	7	10
Comoros	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Congo	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Costa Rica	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cote d'Ivoire	34	35	35	34	31	45	42	44	43	48	48	47
Croatia	5	5	5	4	4	5	6	4	6	5	6	6
Cuba	4	4	3	3	5	4	4	4	4	3	4	2
Czechia	12	13	16	17	20	18	15	11	9	17	19	22
Democratic People's Republic of Korea	27	27	28	25	27	28	27	26	25	28	29	29
Djibouti	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dominica	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dominican Republic	5	5	6	7	5	5	6	6	7	7	7	8
Ecuador	2	2	2	2	2	3	2	2	2	3	1	1
Egypt	30	29	18	32	26	29	28	34	34	34	35	33
El Salvador	3	3	3	1	2	2	3	3	2	3	3	4
Ethiopia	60	61	61	63	64	71	71	74	60	63	64	67
Fiji	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
France	95	105	109	86	102	88	86	101	88	83	89	86
Gabon	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2
Gambia	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Georgia	4	5	4	5	5	5	4	3	3	3	3	3
Germany	61	61	61	63	62	63	54	61	61	66	65	65
Ghana	32	29	34	30	30	29	30	35	40	39	30	35
Greece	13	13	13	11	10	9	8	8	7	7	7	8
Grenada	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Guatemala	25	26	26	26	26	26	26	27	27	26	27	28
Guinea	15	15	16	17	18	19	19	20	20	21	19	19
Guinea-Bissau	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1
Guyana	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Haiti	21	23	21	21	15	13	12	10	34	15	12	21
Honduras	9	10	10	11	9	10	10	11	11	10	11	11
Hungary	35	38	41	40	40	37	33	32	51	33	34	37
India	883	921	911	953	941	878	1,002	971	941	915	977	1,020
Indonesia	92	89	98	93	116	114	120	120	120	85	107	85
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	18	20	19	20	12	9	9	10	10	11	4	3
Iraq	6	6	7	8	4	3	4	3	3	5	5	4
Israel	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Italy	28	32	32	33	35	27	26	23	24	29	30	26
Jamaica	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Japan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	2
Jordan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kazakhstan	2	2	2	2	2	4	3	22	3	4	2	5
Kenya	60	59	65	62	61	66	58	55	70	54	67	63
Kuwait	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kyrgyzstan	4	5	5	5	5	6	6	6	7	7	7	7
Lao People's Democratic Republic	9	9	8	9	10	10	10	8	7	7	6	8
Lebanon	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lesotho	5	3	3	3	3	2	1	6	4	2	1	5
Libya	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lithuania					4	1	1	1	2	1	2	2
Luxembourg	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Madagascar	12	12	13	11	10	9	9	8	6	6	6	6
Malawi	44	44	44	44	43	43	67	45	44	45	46	46
Malaysia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1
Maldives	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mali	12	19	13	14	22	14	14	28	23	29	22	27
Mauritania	1	1	2	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Mauritius	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mexico	195	188	179	186	167	195	182	174	181	186	187	188
Montenegro	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Morocco	14	11	4	6	5	5	6	6	6	2	1	2
Mozambique	45	47	42	45	45	42	44	43	47	46	60	51
Myanmar	14	15	15	17	17	17	18	18	18	19	20	22
Namibia	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	3
Nepal	15	17	17	16	19	18	18	19	19	20	20	20
New Zealand	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Nicaragua	23	26	24	35	27	13	18	18	18	14	14	13
Niger	0	0	0	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	2	0
Nigeria	88	102	100	97	115	121	133	120	126	149	110	120
Pakistan	93	107	106	114	123	132	83	75	85	87	88	108
Panama	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	6
Paraguay	18	20	18	24	19	29	30	30	31	34	34	32
Peru	31	31	34	34	33	35	32	30	31	32	30	31
Philippines	50	51	52	51	52	51	50	51	50	50	51	51
Poland	9	9	15	15	15	20	17	19	20	21	43	44
Portugal	3	3	4	4	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	3
Republic of Korea	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2
Republic of Moldova	9	10	12	12	12	11	12	11	11	12	11	13
Romania	54	65	68	63	63	65	65	60	108	67	64	75
Russian Federation	52	62	74	81	80	109	126	109	94	76	80	92
Rwanda	6	7	7	8	7	7	7	8	8	8	8	8
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sao Tome and Principe	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Saudi Arabia	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1
Senegal	3	3	4	4	3	4	3	4	5	7	10	10
Serbia	29	30	25	25	25	25	25	24	25	23	24	25
Sierra Leone	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1
Slovakia	29	46	37	36	58	30	54	34	48	46	52	50
Slovenia	3	3	3	3	4	4	4	3	4	5	5	6
South Africa	29	29	34	33	33	28	36	30	33	32	36	35
South Sudan										6	6	6
Spain	17	18	20	20	16	20	17	16	16	22	21	19
Sri Lanka	1	1	2	2	1	1	1	5	1	1	2	2
Sudan			1	1	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	1
Suriname	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Switzerland	2	1	1	1	2	1	1	2	1	2	2	2
Syrian Arab Republic	2	3	3	2	1	2	2	2	2	3	2	3
Tajikistan	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Thailand	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	20	21	20	21	23
Timor-Leste	1	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Togo	14	14	17	18	17	14	16	17	17	18	17	18
Trinidad and Tobago	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Turkmenistan	0	0	3	3	3	3	1	1	1	1	1	1
Uganda	32	34	37	37	39	38	33	38	46	40	47	32
Ukraine	116	221	260	288	284	233	229	250	151	199	197	176
United Republic of Tanzania	72	77	92	91	94	88	92	88	82	87	101	105
United States of America	584	623	624	582	796	832	798	807	838	758	781	777
Uruguay	5	3	5	7	6	5	5	5	3	6	7	8
Uzbekistan	5	5	8	6	7	7	8	7	8	9	10	14
Vanuatu	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	3	2	2	2	2	13	2	1	2	2	2	2
Viet Nam	31	32	32	33	33	33	32	31	29	30	29	28
Yemen	3	2	2	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Zambia	41	50	44	34	40	34	43	51	40	33	48	50
Zimbabwe	40	44	40	38	33	34	35	34	35	18	34	32
Micronesia										0	0	0
Papua New Guinea	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Democratic Republic of the Congo	94	102	104	105	108	109	108	120	120	118	109	111

Maize for seed (thousand tonnes)

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