Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs: Focus on five major crops such as soybeans to promote the increase of single crop production on a large scale.

According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the national spring planting of grains has reached 14.4%. This year, China is making efforts to promote large-scale increase in grain and oil crop yields, to promote more balanced production increases. This year, the number of counties in which large-scale single-crop yield improvement for grain and oil crops is being promoted has increased from 702 to 1000, and for the first time, 20 cities have been included in the promotion, focusing on promoting the integration of good land, good seeds, good machines, and good practices to increase efficiency. Different regions are implementing tailored strategies to improve the rate of technology adoption and matching of equipment. Deputy Director of the Planting Management Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Lv Xiutao: The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has issued the National Action Plan for Large-Scale Single-Crop Yield Improvement for Grain and Oil Crops in 2026, focusing on maize, rice, wheat, soybeans, and rapeseed, continuously exploring and releasing the potential for large-scale production increases to ensure that grain production remains stable at around 1.4 trillion kilograms.