Agriculture Data

According to the National Bureau of Statistics of China, in 2007, the total output of grain reached 501.50 million tons, an increase of 3.5 million tons over the previous year, up by 0.7 percent. It was the fourth year of high production in the history, or the four consecutive years of increase for the first time since 1985. Of this total, the output of summer grain was 115.34 million tons, a year- on-year change of 1.3 percent; the output of early rice was 31.96 million tons, maintaining the same level as in the previous year; the output of autumn grain was 354.20 million tons, a year-on-year growth of 0.6 percent.

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