GUIZHOU BAGS BUMPER HARVEST WITH GRAIN OUTPUT UP 3.49 PER CENT IN 2021

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 13 (Bernama) -- The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Dec 6 that Guizhou secured yet another bumper harvest, with grain output up 3.49 per cent year-on-year, Guizhou's total grain output reached nearly 10.949 million tonnes in 2021.

The total sown area is 41.8155 million mu (about 2.802 million hectares), edged up 1.22 per cent year-on-year, according to a statement.

On Nov 30, Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Guizhou Province invited experts to measure the production of perennial rice in a trial field of Sinan County, Tongren City of Guizhou Province.

It's the second year of harvest of this field's rice and its yield has reached 843.3kg per mu (about 0.067 hectares), which indicates the successful overwintering of perennial rice in Guizhou.

To achieve the goal of this year's grain production and of increasing planting area, grain production has become one of Guizhou government performance evaluation system in governments at all levels.

Leaders of Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Guizhou Province have been in charge of over 1,000 mu (about 67 hectares) farm fields and leaders of governments at all levels are responsible for 108 demonstration farmland.

Its total area reached nearly 100,000 mu (about 6,700 hectares). This action has boosted the food production in different areas.

In 2021, Guizhou launched a programme to build high-standard farm field and plan to build 2.5 million mu (about 167.5 thousand hectares) extra farm fields.

According to this programme, a high-quality grain and oil steering group consisted of 93 experts and 2,256 science and technology correspondents will go to field to teach farmers agricultural knowledge and planting skills.

In the future, Guizhou will make full use of ecology advantage and allocate production resources reasonably to achieve a coordinate development between grain production and economy development and build a solid foundation for rural revitalisation and agricultural modernisation.

-- BERNAMA