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Pig herd recovering
The total output of pork, beef, mutton and poultry in 2020 was 76.39 million tons, down by 0.1 percent over last year. Of this total, the output of beef was 6.72 million tons, up by 0.8 percent; mutton, 4.92 million tons, up by 1.0 percent; poultry, 23.61 million tons, up by 5.5 percent; eggs, 34.68 million tons, up by 4.8 percent; milk, 34.40 million tons, up by 7.5 percent, and pork, 41.13 million tons, down by 3.3 percent.
At the end of 2020, pigs and breeding sows registered in stock were up by 31.0 percent and 35.1 percent respectively over that at the end of 2019.
Consumer prices of pork were up by 49.7 percent.
Grain production up slightly with an increase in soybeans
The total output of grain in 2020 was 669.49 million tons, up by 0.9 percent over last year, or an increase of 5.65 million tons. Of this total, the output of summer grain was 142.86 million tons, up by 0.9 percent, and that of early rice was 27.29 million tons, up by 3.9 percent. The output of autumn grain reached 499.34 million tons, up by 0.7 percent. By commodity, the output of rice was 211.86 million tons, up by 1.1 percent; wheat, 134.25 million tons, up by 0.5 percent; corn, 260.67 million tons, almost the same as that of last year with a slight decline; soybean, 19.60 million tons, up by 8.3 percent.
January 18, 2021/ National Bureau of Statistics of China/ China.
http://www.stats.gov.cn/
