China's total grain output achieves an "eleventh consecutive increase"

Employees of the Qilihe National Grain Reserve Depot in Yi County, Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province, drying corn they purchased (photo taken November 13).

Farmers in Qiongzhong County, Hainan, rushing to harvest mountain rice (photo taken November 8).

Wang Qiaoying, a farmer in Xihan Village, Quanzhang Town, Xinjiang County, Yuncheng City, Shanxi, drying harvested corn (photo taken November 4).

The National Bureau of Statistics issued a notice on the 4th stating that China's total grain output in 2014 reached 607.099 million tons (121.42 billion jin), an increase of 5.16 million tons (10.32 billion jin) over 2013, a rise of 0.9 percent. China's total grain output has achieved an “eleventh consecutive increase”.

According to the notice, China's total grain output in 2014 was 557.269 million tons (111.454 billion jin), an increase of 4.577 million tons (9.15 billion jin) over 2013, a rise of 0.8 percent. Grains mainly include corn, rice, wheat, barley, sorghum, buckwheat, oats and so on.

According to the National Bureau of Statistics' sample survey of agricultural production and operation households in 31 provinces (regions and municipalities) across the country and its comprehensive statistics on agricultural production and operation units, China's grain sown area in 2014 was 112,738.3 thousand hectares (1,691.074 million mu), an increase of 0.7 percent over the previous year. The grain yield per unit area was 5,385 kg per hectare (359 kg per mu), 0.2 percent higher than the previous year.