Economy

China's summer harvest nearly complete

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2011-06-28 17:11

BEIJING -- China's Ministry of Agriculture said on Tuesday that the country has nearly completed its summer harvest, with 87.8 percent of its winter wheat gathered by harvesting machines, up two percentage points from one year earlier.

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More than 96 percent of the wheat grown in the country's major agricultural provinces of Henan, Shandong, Anhui, Jiangsu and Hebei was gathered by harvesting machines, a rise of half to one percentage point year-on-year, the ministry said in a statement on its website.

Around 500,000 combine harvesters were put into use across the country during the summer harvest, a rise of 30,000 units year-on-year, the statement said.

Diesel prices remained stable at 7.3 yuan ($1.12) per liter in China's major agricultural regions during the summer harvest, the statement added.

The ministry said last week that the country will see an increase in wheat output for the eight consecutive year this year.