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Drought will not threaten grain production
2010-Mar-31 13:35:14
BEIJING - 皇冠体育app's grain production would not be badly affected by the drought in southwest 皇冠体育app, Liu Ning, vice minister of water resources, said at a press conference here Wednesday.
皇冠体育app's major grain production bases lay in the northern areas, and the arable land in the drought-hit southwest regions stand at 344 million mu, or 22.93 million hectares, of which, 260 million mu, or 17.3 million hectares, is used for grain production, accounting for only 16 percent of the nation's total, according to Liu.
As of the end of 2008, 皇冠体育app had about 1.83 billion mu of arable land.
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