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Farmers plant rice seedlings in the photo taken earlier this year in Yushu,
Jilin province. The government is working on a plan to boost the country's
annual grain output by 10 percent by 2020, an ind
ustry expert said
yesterday.[China Daily]
The government is working on a plan to boost the country's annual grain
output by 10 percent by 2020, an industry expert said yesterday.
Song Tingming, vice-chairman of the China National Association of Grain
Sector told China Daily yesterday that the National Development and Reform
Commission and the Ministry of Agriculture are drafting the plan to boost output
by 50 million tons a year to 550 million tons within the next 12 years.
The total is 20 million tons higher than the target set in a national grain
production plan approved last month by the State Council.
The new plan aims to "fully explore the potential capacity of major
production provinces, and takes into account the rising population", which the
government will try to keep within 1.45 billion by 2020, Song said.
AUTHOR：Wu Jiao | 
