Agriculture 2017

In 2017, the sown area of grain was 112.22 million hectares, a drop of 0.81 million hectares compared with 2016. Of this total, the sown area of wheat was 23.99 million hectares, a decrease of 0.2 million hectares; the sown area of rice was 30.18 million hectares, a decrease of 2 thousand hectares; the sown area of corn was 35.45 million hectares, a decrease of 1.32 million hectares. The sown area of cotton was 3.23 million hectares, a decrease of 0.12 million hectares. The sown area of oil-bearing crops was 14.20 million hectares, an increase of 70 thousand hectares; the sown area of sugar crops was 1.68 million hectares, a decrease of 10 thousand hectares.

The total output of grain in 2017 was 617.91 million tons, an increase of 1.66 million tons, or 0.3 percent, from 2016. Of this total, the output of summer crops was 140.31 million tons, up by 0.8 percent, and that of the early rice was 31.74 million tons, down by 3.2 percent compare with the previous year. The output of autumn grain was 445.85 million tons, up by 0.4 percent. The output of cereal was 564.55 million tons, a decrease of 0.1 percent, of which the output of rice was 208.56 million tons, up by 0.7 percent; that of wheat was 129.77 million tons, up by 0.7 percent; and that of corn was 215.89 million tons, down by 1.7 percent.

In 2017, the output of cotton was 5.49 million tons, an increase of 3.5 percent from the previous year; that of oil-bearing crops was 37.32 million tons, an increase of 2.8 percent; that of sugar crops was 125.56 million tons, an increase of 1.7 percent; and that of tea was 2.55 million tons, an increase of 6.0 percent.

The total output of pork, beef, mutton and poultry in 2017 reached 84.31 million tons, up by 0.8 percent from the previous year. Of this total, the output of pork was 53.40 million tons, up by 0.8 percent; that of beef was 7.26 million tons, up by 1.3 percent; that of mutton was 4.68 million tons, an increase of 1.8 percent; and that of poultry was 18.97 million tons, an increase of 0.5 percent. The total output of eggs was 30.70 million tons, down by 0.8 percent. The production of milk was 35.45 million tons, down by 1.6 percent. At the end of the year, 433.25 million pigs were registered in the total stocks, down by 0.4 percent, and 688.61 million pigs were slaughtered, up by 0.5 percent.

The total output of aquatic products in 2017 was 69.38 million tons, up by 0.5 percent from the previous year. Of this total, the output of cultured aquatic products was 52.81 million tons, up by 2.7 percent; and that of fished aquatic products was 16.56 million tons, down by 5.8 percent from 2017.

The total production of timber for the year 2017 reached 76.82 million cubic meters, a decrease of 1.2 percent compared with 2016.

Over 1.09 million hectares of farmland were newly equipped with effective irrigation systems and another 1.44 million hectares of farmland was newly equipped with water-saving irrigation systems.