China’s grain output grew 0.5 percent

Beijing, Dec 12 (Prensa Latina) China reported on Monday that the country's grain output grew 0.5 percent this year and exceeded 686 billion kilograms, despite the weather challenges reported in the agricultural poles in recent months.

December 12, 2022
08:02

For the eighth consecutive year, the country registered more than 650 billion kilograms of those products, and the number of planted hectares grew by 118.3 million, the National Bureau of Statistics reported.

These results were obtained in an adverse context of high temperatures and an intense and prolonged drought during the summer in central and south China, unusual floods in northern regions this fall, and labor disruptions due to the new outbreaks of Covid-19.

The Bureau stressed that abundant harvests enable China to maintain a solid foundation for food security, economic growth, stable market prices and supplies, and controlled inflation amid global uncertainties and pressures.

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