In 2011, it was the world's third-largest grain exporter with that year's harvest being much larger than average.

By 1860, they were the largest grain exporters in the world.

Agriculture began changing from subsistence farms to grain exporters.

Which country recently became the world's largest exporter?

A combined entity would be the world's largest exporter of coal, the biggest zinc producer and third-biggest copper miner.

Markets have taken signs of instability in the world's largest exporter of crude as a reason to push up oil prices.

Undeterred by the risks, he went on to become the country's largest exporter of sunflower seeds only to lose nearly 7m in the 1998 rouble devaluation.

These volumes make the company the world's largest exporter of natural soda ash.

The major exporter at this time was the horse hair factory which was first recorded in 1855.

Production reached a peak in the third quarter of the first century, and declined as a major exporter thereafter.

Until the 1960s it was an important center of regional trade and a major exporter of salt.

They are a major exporter of saddles and other leather goods all over the world.

Both are major exporters and employers with the latter, famed for its soups and preserves, employing around 500 people locally.

As recently as 2003, we were a net exporter of gas.

A nation that for centuries was a net exporter of its people suddenly has full employment.

The country has resumed its status as a net exporter of people.

We are a net exporter of graduates.

It hopes to achieve 75 per cent by 2010 and, soon afterwards, become a net exporter of clean energy.

Taking sole command, he can travel the world to flaunt his country's power as an oil exporter and massive market for imports.

The world's fourth-biggest oil exporter has inserted a clause in its oil contracts allowing it to request payment in alternative currencies.

The result was runaway inflation and hugely unpopular petrol rationing in the world's second-largest oil exporter.

The world's largest oil exporter said that repairs would take weeks, but officials said privately that the timeframe was more likely to be months.

The world's largest oil exporter has seen its vast foreign reserves, valued at $700 billion last year, reduced by more than $70 billion in the past 12 months.