Crop Cultivation ... ...

An intelligent greenhouse for growing vegetables in the suburbs of Shanghai.

China's main grain crops are rice, wheat, corn, soybeans and tuber crops. Paddy rice is the major grain crop in China, grown mainly in the Yangtze River valley and southern China, and on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. Its output accounts for two-fifths of the total grain output. The output of wheat accounts for slightly more than one fifth of the total output of grain; it is planted throughout China but mainly on the North China Plain. The output of corn, grown in the provinces of northeastern, northern and southwestern China, accounts for one fourth of the total grain output. Soybeans are grown on the Northeast China Plain and the plains along the Yellow and Huaihe rivers. Sweet potatoes are grown widely in China, but mainly in the Pearl River valley, along the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the lower reaches of the Yellow River and in the Sichuan Basin.

Cash crops include cotton, peanuts, rape, sesame, sugarcane, tea, tobacco, mulberry and fruit. Cotton is grown mainly along the Yellow River and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and in the Manas River valley in Xinjiang. Peanuts are grown in Shandong, Guangdong, Guangxi and Liaoning. Rape is produced along the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and in the Sichuan Basin. Sugarcane is grown in southern China. Beets are grown for the most part in Heilongjiang, Jilin and Inner Mongolia.