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Article: China aims for 21.3 million hectares of winter wheat crops
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- September 20, 2006
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China aims for 21.3 million hectares of winter wheat crops
BEIJING, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- The acreage of winter wheat crops
across China in the 2006 to 2007 crop year should reach 320 million
mu (21.3 million hectares), the Ministry of Agriculture has announced
at a national conference on winter crops.
Last year, the planting area of winter wheat was about 21.4
million hectares.
The total acreage of autumn and winter crops should exceed 690
million mu (46 million hectares), with that of autumn and winter
grain surpassing 380 million mu, said Minister of Agriculture Du
Qinglin at the meeting.
Thanks to a series of central government policies, China's ...