According to a December report from China's National Bureau of Statistics and the Bureau's Statistical Communique released in February, China produced more of every major commodity last year (except maybe soybeans). All the statistics are in the table below.
Grain production was up 3.2 percent, the ninth consecutive increase. NBS says that expanded area planted in grain contributed 3.58 million tons and yield increases contributed 14.78 million tons to the increase in grain output.
Corn production expanded 8 percent and became the leading crop produced in China. Corn's increase in planted area of 1.4 million hectares was mirrored by declines in soybeans (-712,000 hectares), cotton (-340,000 hectares) and wheat (-131,000 hectares). NBS doesn't mention it, but corn's expansion of area (4 percent) outpaced its increase in yield (3.5 percent). Thus, corn's output growth came mainly from expanding area.
Meat production was up 5.4 percent. Most of that growth came from pork (up 5.6 percent) and poultry meat (up 6.7 percent). These two species are the main consumers of animal feed and their growth corresponds to the major expansion of corn output. Note that corn output grew 8 percent, faster than growth in meat output. In contrast, growth in production of ruminant animals that eat mainly grass--beef, mutton, and dairy--increased at a relatively slow 2-to-2.5-percent rate. This reflects the general lack of forage resources in China, the long production cycle for cattle, and a campaign to restructure production of grazing and dairy animals.
China Preliminary Agricultural Production Statistics for 2012
Grain production was up 3.2 percent, the ninth consecutive increase. NBS says that expanded area planted in grain contributed 3.58 million tons and yield increases contributed 14.78 million tons to the increase in grain output.
Corn production expanded 8 percent and became the leading crop produced in China. Corn's increase in planted area of 1.4 million hectares was mirrored by declines in soybeans (-712,000 hectares), cotton (-340,000 hectares) and wheat (-131,000 hectares). NBS doesn't mention it, but corn's expansion of area (4 percent) outpaced its increase in yield (3.5 percent). Thus, corn's output growth came mainly from expanding area.
Meat production was up 5.4 percent. Most of that growth came from pork (up 5.6 percent) and poultry meat (up 6.7 percent). These two species are the main consumers of animal feed and their growth corresponds to the major expansion of corn output. Note that corn output grew 8 percent, faster than growth in meat output. In contrast, growth in production of ruminant animals that eat mainly grass--beef, mutton, and dairy--increased at a relatively slow 2-to-2.5-percent rate. This reflects the general lack of forage resources in China, the long production cycle for cattle, and a campaign to restructure production of grazing and dairy animals.
China Preliminary Agricultural Production Statistics for 2012
| Crop | Area planted, 2012 | Change from 2011 |
| 1,000 hectares | 1,000 hectares | |
| Grain | 111,270 | 690 |
| Rice | 30,297 | 240 |
| Corn | 34,949 | 1,407 |
| Wheat | 24,139 | -131 |
| Soybeans | 7,177 | -712 |
| Cotton | 4,700 | -340 |
| Oilseeds | 13,980 | 120 |
| Sugar crops | 2,030 | 90 |
| Grain yields | Yield, 2012 | Change from 2011 |
| mt/ha | mt/ha | |
| Grain | 5,299 | 133 |
| Rice | 6,743 | 55 |
| Corn | 5,955 | 207 |
| Wheat | 4,995 | 158 |
| Crop output | Output, 2012 | Change |
| 1,000 metric tons | Percent | |
| Grain | 589,570 | 3.2 |
| Summer grain | 129,950 | 2.8 |
| Early season rice | 33,290 | 1.6 |
| Fall grain | 426,330 | 3.5 |
| major grain crops: | ||
| Rice | 204,290 | 1.6 |
| Wheat | 120,580 | 2.7 |
| Corn | 208,120 | 8.0 |
| Cotton | 6,840 | 3.8 |
| Oilseed crops | 34,760 | 5.1 |
| Sugar crops | 134,960 | 7.8 |
| Tobacco | 3,200 | 11.5 |
| Tea | 1,800 | 11.2 |
| Output of livestock products | Output, 2012 | Change |
| 1,000 metric tons | Percent | |
| Meat output | 83,840 | 5.4 |
| Pork | 53,350 | 5.6 |
| Beef | 6,620 | 2.3 |
| Mutton | 4,010 | 2.0 |
| Poultry meat | 18,230 | 6.7 |
| Eggs | 28,610 | 1.8 |
| Milk | 37,440 | 2.3 |
| 1,000 head | Percent | |
| Hog inventory (end of year) | 474,920 | 1.6 |
| Hogs slaughtered | 696,280 | 5.2 |
| Source: China National Bureau of Statistics. | ||
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