BEIJING, May 14, 2010 (Xinhua News Agency) -- China is to plant 100 million mu (about 6.67 million hectares) of lands with super rice in China in 2010, with an increase of rice output of 50 kilograms per mu.
China is hastening the pace of spreading the plantation of super rice with the aim of ensuring the country's grain safety, said Yang Xiongnian, a high-ranking official from the Ministry of Agriculture, at a conference held recently in Nanchang, capital city of east China's Jiangxi province.
China has to increase rice output through scientific methods under the situation that the arable land in China is constantly decreasing, he said.
During the three-year period from 2006 to 2008, China witnessed an increase of rice output of 16.2 billion kilograms with the plantation of super rice, which helped to feed up 160 million people.
Statistics show that 93.57 million mu (about 6.24 million hectares) of lands were planted with super rice in 2009, rising by 12.2 percent from a year ago and accounting for 21 percent of the country's total rice plantation areas.
