Subsidy success: Multi-billion cash handout to farmers helps China achieve bumper soy and grain outputs
China
Published Dec 20, 2022
Tridge summary
Latest figures released by the National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBS) show that China's total grain output amounted to 686.53 million tons in 2022, an increase of 3.68 million tons (0.5%) from last year. Officials have presented this as a success story in enhancing food security amid COVID-19 disruptions, mounting global inflation, the war in Ukraine, and environmental troubles. The total grain output constitutes the summer harvest, early-season rice harvest and autumn harvest across 31 provinces, 2region provinces, 3region provinces. showed growth in food production. This new record signs the eighth consecutive year that China's annual grain production has exceeded 650 million tons, the food-security benchmark set by the country's central government. of the grain output comprised rice, wheat, corn, barley, sorghum, buckwheat and oats.
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Latest figures released by the National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBS) show that China’s total grain output amounted to 686.53 million tons in 2022, an increase of 3.68 million tons (0.5%) from last year. Officials have presented this as a success story in enhancing food security amid COVID-19 disruptions, mounting global inflation, the war in Ukraine, and environmental troubles. The total grain output constitutes the summer harvest, early-season rice harvest and autumn harvest across 31 provinces. Among them, 23 provincial regions showed growth in food production. This new record signifies the eighth consecutive year that China’s annual grain production has exceeded 650 million tons, the food-security benchmark set by the country’s central government. Approximately 633 million tons — an increase of 490,000 tons from 2021 — of the grain output comprised rice, wheat, corn, barley, sorghum, buckwheat and oats. In addition, the total crop-growing area increased by 0.6% to 118.3 ...
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