Colombia Rice: Record Production in Marketing Year 2024/25
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Colombia production for rice and corn is rather limited due to the diversity of agricultural production in the country and a focus on producing other high-value commodities. Colombia is ranked as the 44th largest corn producer and the 26th largest rice producer in the world. Colombia is important to American agriculture, however, because when Colombia needs to import either of the major grain crops (rice or corn), they typically turn to the United States to fill the demand. Based on information from USDA’s Production, Supply, and Distribution database, Colombia, on average (marketing year (MY) 2019/20-MY 2023/24), imports about 60 percent of their rice imports and 70 percent of their corn imports from the United States. Therefore, accurately understanding the production for Colombia is important for U.S. producers, even though Colombia is a relatively small producer in the world ranking.