II. Agriculture

In 2009, the sown area of grain was 108.97 million hectares, an increase of 2.17 million hectares as compared with that in the previous year; the sown area of cotton was 4.95 million hectares, a decline of 800,000 hectares; the sown area of oil-bearing crops was 13.60 million hectares, an increase of 760,000 hectares; the sown area of sugar crops was 1.88 million hectares, a drop of 110,000 hectares.

The total output of grain in 2009 was 530.82 million tons, an increase of 2.11 million tons or up 0.4 percent over the previous year. Of this total, the output of summer crops was 123.35 million tons, up 2.2 percent, and that of the early rice was 33.27 million tons, up 5.3 percent over the previous year. The output of autumn grain was 374.20 million tons, a drop of 0.6 percent.

In 2009, the output of cotton was 6.40 million tons, a decrease of 14.6 percent from the previous year, that of oil-bearing crops was 31.00 million tons, up 5.0 percent and that of sugar crops was 122.00 million tons, a drop of 9.1 percent, that of tobacco was 2.80 million tons, up 6.7 percent, and that of tea was 1.35 million tons, up 7.1 percent.

The total output of meat for the year reached 76.42 million tons, up by 5.0 percent. Of this total, the output of pork was 48.89 million tons, up 5.8 percent, and that of beef and mutton was 6.36 million and 3.89 million tons, up by 3.6 percent and 2.4 percent respectively. At year end, 469.85 million pigs were registered in the total stocks, up 1.5 percent, and 645.07 million pigs were slaughtered, up 5.7 percent. The production of milk was 35.18 million tons, down 1.1 percent; the total output of eggs was 27.41 million tons, up 1.4 percent.

The total output of aquatic products was 51.20 million tons, up 4.6 percent. Of this total, the output of cultured aquatic products was 36.35 million tons, up 6.5 percent; and that of fished aquatic products was 14.85 million tons, up 0.1 percent over the previous year.

The total production of timber for the year 2009 reached 69.38 million cubic meters, a drop of 14.4 percent.

Over 1.471 million hectares of farmland was increased with effective irrigation systems and another additional 1.826 million hectares of farmland was guaranteed by water-saving irrigation systems.