Recasts, provides numbers for wheat and rice
BEIJING, Dec 10 (Reuters) – China produced 260.67 million tonnes of corn in 2020, the Nationwide Bureau of Statistics mentioned on Thursday, barely slipping from final yr’s quantity regardless of climate harm simply earlier than the harvest.
The world’s No. 2 corn producer harvested 260.77 million tonnes of the grain final yr.
Corn output is being intently watched amid a rising deficit within the nation that has pushed up costs to document ranges.
The commodity is a key uncooked materials in animal feed for China’s large livestock sector and can be utilized in industrial merchandise.
The nation’s wheat output got here to 134.25 million tonnes, marginally up from 133.59 million tonnes final yr, whereas rice manufacturing rose greater than 1% to 211.86 million tonnes.
The entire grain planting space elevated 0.6% to 116.eight million hectares, in keeping with the statistics bureau.
(Reporting by Min Zhang and Dominique Patton; Enhancing by Arun Koyyur)
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