Agriculture 2019

In 2019, the sown area of grain was 116.06 million hectares, a drop of 0.97 million hectares compared with 2018. Of this total, the sown area of wheat was 23.73 million hectares, a decrease of 0.54 million hectares; the sown area of rice was 29.69 million hectares, a decrease of 0.50 million hectares; the sown area of corn was 41.28 million hectares, a decrease of 0.85 million hectares. The sown area of cotton was 3.34 million hectares, a decrease of 20 thousand hectares. The sown area of oil-bearing crops was 12.93 million hectares, up by 60 thousand hectares; the sown area of sugar crops was 1.62 million hectares, down by 10 thousand hectares.

The total output of grain in 2019 was 663.84 million tons, an increase of 5.94 million tons, or 0.9 percent, from 2018. Of this total, the output of summer crops was 141.60 million tons, up by 2.0 percent, and that of the early rice was 26.27 million tons, down by 8.1 percent. The output of autumn grain was 495.97 million tons, up by 1.1 percent. The output of cereal was 613.68 million tons, up by 0.6 percent compared with the previous year, of which the output of rice was 209.61 million tons, down by 1.2 percent; that of wheat was 133.59 million tons, up by 1.6 percent; and that of corn was 260.77 million tons, up by 1.4 percent.

In 2019, the output of cotton was 5.89 million tons, a decrease of 3.5 percent from 2018; that of oil-bearing crops was 34.95 million tons, an increase of 1.8 percent; that of sugar crops was 122.04 million tons, an increase of 2.2 percent, and that of tea was 2.80 million tons, an increase of 7.2 percent.

The total output of pork, beef, mutton and poultry in 2019 was 76.49 million tons, down by 10.2 percent from the previous year. Of this total, the output of pork was 42.55 million tons, down by 21.3 percent; that of beef was 6.67 million tons, up by 3.6 percent; that of mutton was 4.88 million tons, up by 2.6 percent; and that of poultry was 22.39 million tons, up by 12.3 percent. The total output of eggs was 33.09 million tons, up by 5.8 percent. The production of milk was 32.01 million tons, up by 4.1 percent. At the end of the year, 310.41 million pigs were registered in the total stocks, down by 27.5 percent, and 544.19 million pigs were slaughtered, down by 21.6 percent.

The total output of aquatic products in 2019 was 64.50 million tons, down by 0.1 percent from 2018. Of this total, the output of cultured aquatic products was 50.50 million tons, up by 1.0 percent; and that of fished aquatic products was 14.00 million tons, down by 5.0 percent.

The total production of timber for the year 2019 reached 90.28 million cubic meters, an increase of 2.5 percent compared with 2018.

In 2019, over 0.27 million hectares of farmland were newly equipped with irrigation systems and another 1.46 million hectares of farmland was newly equipped with water-saving irrigation systems.