Agriculture 2016

In 2016, the sown area of grain was 113.03 million hectares, a drop of 310 thousand hectares compared with 2015. Of this total, the sown area of wheat was 24.19 million hectares, an increase of 50 thousand hectares; the sown area of rice was 30.16 million hectares, a decrease of 50 thousand hectares; the sown area of corn was 36.76 million hectares, a decrease of 1.36 million hectares. The sown area of cotton was 3.38 million hectares, a decrease of 420 thousand hectares; the sown area of oil-bearing crops was 14.12 million hectares, an increase of 80 thousand hectares; the sown area of sugar crops was 1.68 million hectares, a decrease of 60 thousand hectares.

The total output of grain in 2016 was 616.24 million tons, a decrease of 5.20 million tons, or 0.8 percent, from 2015. Of this total, the output of summer crops was 139.20 million tons, a decrease of 1.2 percent, and that of the early rice was 32.78 million tons, down by 2.7 percent over the year of 2015. The output of autumn grain was 444.26 million tons, down by 0.6 percent. The output of cereal was 565.17 million tons, a decrease of 1.2 percent, of which the output of rice was 206.93 million tons, down by 0.6 percent; that of wheat was 128.85 million tons, down by 1.0 percent; and that of corn was 219.55 million tons, down by 2.3 percent.

In 2016, the output of cotton was 5.34 million tons, a decrease of 4.6 percent from 2015; that of oil-bearing crops was 36.13 million tons, an increase of 2.2 percent; that of sugar crops was 122.99 million tons, a decrease of 1.6 percent; and that of tea was 2.41 million tons, an increase of 7.4 percent.

The total output of meat for the year reached 85.40 million tons, down by 1.0 percent from the previous year. Of this total, the output of pork was 52.99 million tons, down by 3.4 percent; that of beef was 7.17 million tons, up by 2.4 percent; that of mutton was 4.59 million tons, an increase of 4.2 percent; and that of poultry was 18.88 million tons, an increase of 3.4 percent. The total output of eggs was 30.95 million tons, up by 3.2 percent. The production of milk was 36.02 million tons, down by 4.1 percent. At the end of the year, 435.04 million pigs were registered in the total stocks, down by 3.6 percent, and 685.02 million pigs were slaughtered, down by 3.3 percent.

The total output of aquatic products in 2016 was 69.00 million tons, up by 3.0 percent from 2015. Of this total, the output of cultured aquatic products was 51.56 million tons, up by 4.4 percent; and that of fished aquatic products was 17.44 million tons, down by 1.0 percent from the previous year.

The total production of timber for the year 2016 reached 66.83 million cubic meters, a decrease of 7.0 percent compared with 2015.

Over 1.18 million hectares of farmland were newly equipped with effective irrigation systems and another 2.11 million hectares of farmland was newly equipped with water-saving irrigation systems.