China’s early rice output dips in 2014
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CHINA produced 34.01 million tons of early rice in 2014, down 125,000 tons, or 0.4 percent, from a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics said yesterday in a statement.
According to the bureau, China’s early rice planting area for this year covers 579.5 million hectares, 0.2 percent less than last year, with yield per hectare down 0.2 percent to 5.87 tons.
Huang Jiacai, the bureau’s senior statistician, said it was still a good harvest year for early rice given the unit yield is the second highest in history.
Favorable policies implemented in the provinces of Hunan and Hubei have led to an increase in planting areas in the two regions, he said.
Hunan is China’s largest producer of early rice, with an output of 8.5 million tons and a planting area of 1.45 million hectares in 2014. Neighboring Jiangxi Province ranked second with an output of 8.2 million tons, according to the bureau.
Early rice is mainly planted in eight central and southern provincial-level regions of China — Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Guangdong, Hubei, Anhui, Fujian and Hainan.
China’s total grain output consists of three parts — early rice, summer grain and autumn production.
In 2013, China’s total grain output grew 2.1 percent year on year to 601.94 million tons, or 10 straight years of higher grain output. Based on the data in 2013, early rice took up nearly 6 percent of total grain output.
The summer grain crops, mainly wheat and early-season rice, accounted for 22 percent of China’s total grain output. Autumn grain crops, which include corn and middle- and late-season rice, took up the remaining 72 percent.
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