BRUSSELS: The EU beat out the United States to become the world’s top exporter of agricultural and food products last year, a European Commission report on the global farming market said on Monday (Tuesday in Manila).

Fuelled by record sales to China and other emerging markets, in 2013 the 28 countries of the European Union sold 120 billion euros ($163 billion) in agri-food products, up 5.8 percent and with cereals alone accounting for over two thirds of the jump.

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