Agriculture 2022

In 2022, the sown area of grain was 118.33 million hectares, an increase of 0.70 million hectares compared with that in 2021. Of this total, the sown area of rice was 29.45 million hectares, a decrease of 0.47 million hectares; the sown area of wheat was 23.52 million hectares, a decrease of 0.05 million hectares; the sown area of corn was 43.07 million hectares, a decrease of 0.25 million hectares; the sown area of soybean was 10.24 million hectares, an increase of 1.83 million hectares. The sown area of cotton was 3.00 million hectares, a decrease of 0.03 million hectares. The sown area of oil-bearing crops was 13.14 million hectares, an increase of 0.04 million hectares; the sown area of sugar crops was 1.47 million hectares, an increase of 0.01 million hectares.

The total output of grain in 2022 was 686.53 million tons, an increase of 3.68 million tons over the previous year, up by 0.5 percent. Of this total, the output of summer crops was 147.40 million tons, up by 1.0 percent, and that of the early rice was 28.12 million tons, up by 0.4 percent. The output of autumn grain was 511.00 million tons, up by 0.4 percent. The output of cereal in 2022 was 633.24 million tons, up by 0.1 percent over 2021, among which the output of rice was 208.49 million tons, down by 2.0 percent; that of wheat was 137.72 million tons, up by 0.6 percent; and that of corn was 277.20 million tons, up by 1.7 percent. The output of soybean was 20.28 million tons, up by 23.7 percent.

In 2022, the output of cotton was 5.98 million tons, up by 4.3 percent over the previous year, that of oil-bearing crops was 36.53 million tons, up by 1.1 percent, that of sugar crops was 114.44 million tons, down by 0.1 percent, and that of tea was 3.35 million tons, up by 5.7 percent.

The total output of pork, beef, mutton and poultry in 2022 was 92.27 million tons, up by 3.8 percent over the previous year. Of this total, the output of pork was 55.41 million tons, up by 4.6 percent; that of beef was 7.18 million tons, up by 3.0 percent; that of mutton was 5.25 million tons, up by 2.0 percent; and that of poultry was 24.43 million tons, up by 2.6 percent. The total output of eggs was 34.56 million tons, up by 1.4 percent. The output of milk was 39.32 million tons, up by 6.8 percent. At the end of the year, 452.56 million pigs were registered in the total stocks, up by 0.7 percent compared with that at the end of 2021, and 699.95 million pigs were slaughtered, up by 4.3 percent over the previous year.

The total output of aquatic products in 2022 was 68.69 million tons, up by 2.7 percent over the previous year. Of this total, the output of cultured aquatic products was 55.68 million tons, up by 3.2 percent; and that of fished aquatic products was 13.01 million tons, up by 0.4 percent.

The total production of timber in 2022 reached 106.93 million cubic meters, down by 7.7 percent over the previous year.

In 2022, the number of farmland newly equipped with irrigation systems was 0.78 millionhectaresand 1.61 million hectares of farmland was newly equipped with water-saving irrigation systems.