March 16, 2009
China's grain self-sufficiency rate reaches 95 percent in 2008
With China's total grain yield on the rise for several years, it has fully satisfies the domestic demand.
In 2008, China's grain consumption was estimated between 0.51 trillion and 0.515 trillion kilograms while the amount of grain yielded stood at about 0.53 trillion kilograms. The country has been supplying about 95 percent of its total grain demand.
Despite five consecutive years of grain harvest, China has to depend on soy imports to ease the domestic soy shortages as the domestic production is unable to fully meet the domestic demand, according to the country's agriculture vice minister Wei Chao'an.
Last year, China imported 37.436 million tonnes of soy, compared with 30.82 million tonnes a year earlier.
