Editing Flax (section)

=== Production ===
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! colspan="2" |Flax production – 2022
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! style="background:#ddf; width:75%;" | Country
! style="background:#ddf; width:25%;" | <small>tonnes</small>
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| {{FRA}} ||652,680
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| {{BEL}} ||77,910
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| {{BLR}} ||47,626
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| {{CHN}} ||29,035
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| {{RUS}} ||24,103
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| '''World''' || '''875,995'''
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| colspan="2" |<small>Source: [[FAOSTAT]] of the [[United Nations]]<ref name="fao">{{Cite web |date=2024 |title=Flax (raw or retted) production in 2022; Crops/Regions/World List/Production Quantity (from pick lists) |url=http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/QC |access-date=7 June 2024 |publisher=UN Food and Agriculture Organization, Statistics Division (FAOSTAT)}}</ref></small>
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In 2022, world production of raw or [[retting|retted]] flax was 875,995 [[tonne]]s, led by [[France]] with 75% of the total.<ref name="fao" /> One of the largest regions in France for flax production is [[Normandy]] with nearly one-third of the world's production.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Beauvais |first1=François |last2=Cantat |first2=Olivier |last3=Le Gouée |first3=Patrick |last4=Brunel-Muguet |first4=Sophie |last5=Madeline |first5=Philippe |last6=Gaillard |first6=Hervé |last7=Bataille |first7=Marie-Paule |last8=Sallent |first8=Augustin |last9=Preux |first9=Thibaut |last10=Medjkane |first10=Mohand |date=2022 |title=Consequences of climate change on flax fiber in Normandy by 2100: prospective bioclimatic simulation based on data from the ALADIN-Climate and WRF regional models |journal=Theoretical and Applied Climatology |volume=148 |issue=1–2 |pages=415–426 |bibcode=2022ThApC.148..415B |doi=10.1007/s00704-022-03938-4 |issn=0177-798X}}</ref>