China's grain planting area reached 112 million hectares last year

On the 26th, the National Bureau of Statistics released the "Statistical Communique on the 2014 National Economic and Social Development," showing that last year China's grain planting area was 112.74 million hectares, an increase of 780,000 hectares over the previous year; cotton planting area was 4.22 million hectares, a decrease of 130,000 hectares over the previous year; oil-bearing crops planting area was 14.08 million hectares, an increase of 60,000 hectares over the previous year; sugar crops planting area was 1.91 million hectares, a decrease of 90,000 hectares over the previous year.

The communique showed that last year China's grain once again had a bumper harvest, with annual grain output of 607.10 million tons, an increase of 5.16 million tons over the previous year, a yield increase of 0.9%; annual cotton output was 6.16 million tons, a decrease of 2.2% over the previous year; oil-bearing crops output was 35.17 million tons, unchanged from the previous year; sugar crops output was 134.03 million tons, a decrease of 2.5%.