Some provenances rely on imports, Xi mentions to guarantee the safety of seeds in China

Published Apr 20, 2022

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China's General Secretary, Xi Jinping, has emphasized the importance of seed security for food security, as China is the world's second-largest seed market and relies heavily on imports for high-end vegetables and forage seeds. The United States is the largest supplier of seeds to China, contributing to 27% of the total value of imported seeds. However, China's domestic seeds do not meet advanced global standards, and the country relies on imports for corn, potatoes, and high-end vegetable seeds. Additionally, China faces a demand for forage grasses for animal husbandry due to a hay gap, with the United States being the largest supplier of forage grass seeds. China also imports a large number of breeding pigs annually to maintain breeding volume due to lower reproductive performance and higher feed conversion ratios compared to imported breeding pigs.

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[The Epoch Times, April 20, 2022] (The Epoch Times Special Report Reporter Zhang Wan Comprehensive Report) Seeds are called agricultural chips, and the quality of seed sources directly affects the yield and meat quality of crops or livestock and poultry. Recently, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China While repeatedly stressing food security, Xi Jinping proposed to ensure China's seed security. Statistics show that China's high-end vegetables and forage seeds mostly rely on imports, while pigs are almost entirely dependent on imports. China is the world's second-largest seed market after the United States, growing 12 million tons of seeds ($19 billion market value) annually, of which seven crops (corn, rice, wheat, soybean, cotton, potato, and rapeseed) are seeded accounting for about 10 million tons. According to the report of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) in January this year, vegetable seeds and grass seeds ranked among the top two imported ...

Source: Epochtimes