Agriculture 2018

In 2018, the sown area of grain was 117.04 million hectares, a drop of 0.95 million hectares compared with 2017. Of this total, the sown area of wheat was 24.27 million hectares, a decrease of 0.24 million hectares; the sown area of rice was 30.19 million hectares, a decrease of 0.56 million hectares; the sown area of corn was 42.13 million hectares, a decrease of 0.27 million hectares. The sown area of cotton was 3.35 million hectares, an increase of 0.16 million hectares. The sown area of oil-bearing crops was 12.89 million hectares, a decrease of 0.33 million hectares; the sown area of sugar crops was 1.63 million hectares, an increase of 90 thousand hectares.

The total output of grain in 2018 was 657.89 million tons, a decrease of 3.71 million tons or 0.6 percent, from 2017. Of this total, the output of summer crops was 138.78 million tons, down by 2.1 percent, and that of the early rice was 28.59 million tons, down by 4.3 percent compared with the previous year. The output of autumn grain was 490.52 million tons, up by 0.1 percent. The output of cereal was 610.19 million tons, down by 0.8 percent from 2017, of which the output of rice was 212.13 million tons, down by 0.3 percent; that of wheat was 131.43 million tons, down by 2.2 percent; and that of corn was 257.33 million tons, down by 0.7 percent.

In 2018, the output of cotton was 6.10 million tons, an increase of 7.8 percent from 2017; that of oil-bearing crops was 34.39 million tons, a decrease of 1.0 percent; that of sugar crops was 119.76 million tons, up by 5.3 percent; and that of tea was 2.61 million tons, an increase of 5.9 percent.

The total output of pork, beef, mutton and poultry in 2018 reached 85.17 million tons, down by 0.3 percent from the previous year. Of this total, the output of pork was 54.04 million tons, down by 0.9 percent; that of beef was 6.44 million tons, up by 1.5 percent; that of mutton was 4.75 million tons, up by 0.8 percent; and that of poultry was 19.94 million tons, up by 0.6 percent. The total output of eggs was 31.28 million tons, up by 1.0 percent. The production of milk was 30.75 million tons, up by 1.2 percent. At the end of the year, 428.17 million pigs were registered in the total stocks, down by 3.0 percent, and 693.82 million pigs were slaughtered, down by 1.2 percent.

The total output of aquatic products in 2018 was 64.69 million tons, up by 0.4 percent from the previous year. Of this total, the output of cultured aquatic products was 50.18 million tons, up by 2.3 percent; and that of fished aquatic products was 14.51 million tons, down by 5.7 percent from 2017.

The total production of timber for the year 2018 reached 84.32 million cubic meters, an increase of 0.4 percent compared with 2017.

In 2018, over 0.72 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.