China leads the list of global watermelon production

China leads the list of global watermelon producers, one order of magnitude higher than second. Turkey is second on the list and India is third. The harvest in Hungary was 188 thousand tons. In one year, 60.68 million tons of watermelons were grown in China, which is the first in this ranking in the world. Turkey and India still topped the world watermelon podium with 3.87 million and 2.5 million tonnes, respectively. Brazil was fourth with 2.28 million tons and Algeria was fifth with 2.21 million tons, according to data from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for 2019, on the basis of which the Maps of Countries Instagram page created infographics. In the second half of the TOP 10 field, Iran, Russia, the United States, Egypt and Mexico ranked. Most of the countries that export watermelons are the first among producers, Spain, which sells more than 911 thousand tons to foreign buyers. Second is Mexico with 768 thousand tons and third is Iran with ...