China will strive to stabilize its nationwide winter wheat planting area in 2015 at 22.53 million hectares and winter rapeseed planting area at 6.67 million hectares, said Yu Xinrong, vice minister of Agriculture on Tuesday.
The country will stick to the target of stabilizing grain planting area and increasing grain output in 2015 and ensure adequate supply of high-quality seed in an effort to achieve bumper harvest of summer grain in 2016, said Yu.
According to the National Bureau of Statistics, China's summer grain output reached a record-high of 141.07 million tonnes this year, up 3.3 percent or 4.47 million tonnes from that of 2014.
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