date:Jun 05, 2014
As combine harvesters started the wheat harvest this week in China's major breadbasket of Shandong Province, the Ministry of Agriculture forecast an output rise of summer grain and the 11th consecutive bumper harvest.
Wang Fahong, a wheat expert with the Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said both per-unit wheat yield and total yield this year in Shandong would increase.
China produced 120 million tonnes of wheat last year, one fifth of the world's total.
The planting area of summer