Food
Source: Edgar Mowrer & Marthe Rajchman, Global War: An Atlas of World Strategy.
Rice production
Numbers are 1000s of quintals. Both China and Japan are net importers, with China relying on Indochina.
| 1935 | |
| USA | 7 |
| Brazil | 12 |
| Italy | 6 |
| Egypt | 7 |
| Madagascar | 7 |
| India | 422 |
| China | 520 |
| Indonesia | 56 |
| Malaya | 5 |
| Thailand | 47 |
| Indochina | 52 |
| Philippines | 23 |
| Taiwan | 16 |
| Korea | 33 |
| Japan | 106 |
Wheat production
Numbers are 1000s of quintals. Europe is a net importer while the Americas, Australia and the USSR are net exporters.
| 1937-1941 | |
| Canada | 97 |
| USA | 253 |
| Argentina | 91 |
| Other South America | 19 |
| United Kingdom | 19.9 |
| Continental Europe | 476 |
| USSR | 486 |
| Turkey | 42 |
| North Africa | 19.9 |
| Other Africa | 17.7 |
| Palestine/Jordan | 6.9 |
| Iraq | 6 |
| Iran | 19 |
| India | 109 |
| China | 313 |
| Manchuria | 9 |
| Japan | 12.3 |
| Australia | 57 |
| Other Oceania | 3 |