Agriculture 2015

In 2015, the sown area of grain was 113.34 million hectares, an increase of 620 thousand hectares compared with 2014; the sown area of cotton was 3.80 million hectares, a decrease of 420 thousand hectares; the sown area of oil-bearing crops was 14.06 million hectares, an increase of 10 thousand hectares; the sown area of sugar crops was 1.74 million hectares, a decrease of 160 thousand hectares.

The total output of grain in 2015 was 621.44 million tons, an increase of 14.41 million tons, or 2.4 percent, from 2014. Of this total, the output of summer crops was 141.12 million tons, an increase of 3.3 percent, and that of the early rice was 33.69 million tons, down by 0.9 percent compared with the previous year. The output of autumn grain was 446.62 million tons, an increase of 2.3 percent. The output of cereal was 572.25 million tons, an increase of 2.7 percent, of which the output of rice was 208.25 million tons, up by 0.8 percent; that of wheat was 130.19 million tons, up by 3.2 percent; and that of corn was 224.58 million tons, up by 4.1 percent.

In 2015, the output of cotton was 5.61 million tons, a decrease of 9.3 percent from 2014; that of oil-bearing crops was 35.47 million tons, an increase of 1.1 percent; that of sugar crops was 125.29 million tons, a decrease of 6.2 percent; and that of tea was 2.24 million tons, an increase of 6.9 percent.

The total output of meat for the year reached 86.25 million tons, down by 1.0 percent from the previous year. Of this total, the output of pork was 54.87 million tons, down by 3.3 percent; that of beef was 7.00 million tons, up by 1.6 percent; that of mutton was 4.41 million tons, an increase of 2.9 percent; and that of poultry was 18.26 million tons, an increase of 4.3 percent. The total output of eggs was 29.99 million tons, up by 3.6 percent. The production of milk was 37.55 million tons, up by 0.8 percent. At the end of the year, 451.13 million pigs were registered in the total stocks, down by 3.2 percent, and 708.25 million pigs were slaughtered, down by 3.7 percent.

The total output of aquatic products in 2015 was 66.90 million tons, up by 3.5 percent from the previous year. Of this total, the output of cultured aquatic products was 49.42 million tons, up by 4.1 percent; and that of fished aquatic products was 17.48 million tons, up by 0.5 percent from 2014.

The total production of timber for the year 2015 reached 68.32 million cubic meters, a decrease of 17.0 percent compared with 2014.

Over 1.58 million more hectares of farmland were equipped with effective irrigation systems and another additional 2.54 million hectares of farmland was equipped with water-saving irrigation systems.