Technical Conversion Factors for Agricultural …
Technical Conversion Factorsfor Agricultural CommoditiesIntroductionThis publication contains Technical Conversion Factors and ancillary informationcurrently used by the Statistics Division of FAO to compile commodity balances andsupply/utilization accounts for nearly all the countries in the world. The main scope of thesebalances and accounts is ultimately to arrive at approximate estimates of the total availabilityof food in each country, expressed in terms of quantity as well as in terms of calories, proteinand contents of this publication differ from that shown in similar publications issuedby FAO in the past (1960 and 1972) mainly for three reasons: i) Simple Conversion factorsused to convert local non-metric measures into metric weight equivalent are no longer shownbecause almost all countries now report their statistics in metric units. ii) The technicalconversion Factors shown here are limited almost exclusively to edible products.
Technical Conversion Factors for Agricultural Commodities Introduction This publication contains technical conversion factors and ancillary information
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