Agriculture 2021

In 2021, the sown area of grain was 117.63 million hectares, an increase of 0.86 million hectares compared with that in 2020. Of this total, the sown area of rice was 29.92 million hectares, a decrease of 0.15 million hectares; the sown area of wheat was 23.57 million hectares, an increase of 0.19 million hectares; the sown area of corn was 43.32 million hectares, an increase of 2.06 million hectares. The sown area of cotton was 3.03 million hectares, a decrease of 0.14 million hectares. The sown area of oil-bearing crops was 13.10 million hectares, a decrease of 30 thousand hectares; the sown area of sugar crops was 1.46 million hectares, a decrease of 0.11 million hectares.

The total output of grain in 2021 was 682.85 million tons, an increase of 13.36 million tons over the previous year, or up by 2.0 percent. Of this total, the output of summer crops was 145.96 million tons, up by 2.2 percent, and that of the early rice was 28.02 million tons, up by 2.7 percent. The output of autumn grain was 508.88 million tons, up by 1.9 percent. The output of cereal in 2021 was 632.76 million tons, up by 2.6 percent over 2020, among which the output of rice was 212.84 million tons, up by 0.5 percent; that of wheat was 136.95 million tons, up by 2.0 percent; and that of corn was 272.55 million tons, up by 4.6 percent.

In 2021, the output of cotton was 5.73 million tons, down by 3.0 percent over the previous year, that of oil-bearing crops was 36.13 million tons, up by 0.8 percent, that of sugar crops was 114.51 million tons, down by 4.7 percent, and that of tea was 3.18 million tons, up by 8.3 percent.

The total output of pork, beef, mutton and poultry in 2021 was 88.87 million tons, up by 16.3 percent over the previous year. Of this total, the output of pork was 52.96 million tons, up by 28.8 percent; that of beef was 6.98 million tons, up by 3.7 percent; that of mutton was 5.14 million tons, up by 4.4 percent; and that of poultry was 23.80 million tons, up by 0.8 percent. The total output of eggs was 34.09 million tons, down by 1.7 percent. The output of milk was 36.83 million tons, up by 7.1 percent. At the end of the year, 449.22 million pigs were registered in the total stocks, up by 10.5 percent compared with that at the end of 2020, and 671.28 million pigs were slaughtered, up by 27.4 percent over the previous year.

The total output of aquatic products in 2021 was 66.93 million tons, up by 2.2 percent over the previous year. Of this total, the output of cultured aquatic products was 53.88 million tons, up by 3.1 percent; and that of fished aquatic products was 13.05 million tons, down by 1.5 percent.

The total production of timber in 2021 reached 98.88 million cubic meters, down by 3.6 percent over the previous year.

In 2021, over 0.46 million hectares of farmland were newly equipped with irrigation systems and another 1.88 million hectares of farmland was newly equipped with water-saving irrigation systems.