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Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Wednesday, October 29, 2003

Nation anticipates generally normal winter wheat sowing

China is speeding up its winter wheat sowing and is expected to achieve all national targets by the end of November except some water-logged areas, said the Ministry of Agriculture on Wednesday.


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China is speeding up its winter wheat sowing and is expected to achieve all national targets by the end of November except some water-logged areas, said the Ministry of Agriculture on Wednesday.

To date, major wheat growing provinces in the country have sowed 186.67 million mu (some 12.5 million hectares) of winter wheat, or 70.5 percent of the country's planned total.

North China is expected to complete sowing by late October. Provinces in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River areexperiencing a wheat sowing peak and sowing in southwest provinceshas also been gradually carried out. In northwest China, the sowing had finished in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Gansu province.

This year's acreage under winter wheat would be larger than estimated, said the ministry, hoping it will to some extent halt the fall in winter wheat acreage over the past years.

However, some areas including Weinan city of Shaanxi province, Heze city of Shandong province, Kaifeng city of Henan province andBengbu city of Anhui province may lag behind, the ministry said.

Most provinces have stepped up grain production efforts and take wheat sowing as a critical point toward recovery.

This fall, many crops had suffered severe natural disasters such as floods and farmers' income decreased sharply.

Provincial agricultural authorities have made technical manualsfor the autumn-winter wheat sowing and sent technical advisers to villages to spread skills, according to the ministry.


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