The rice yield per mu (667 square meters) of Wuxi, Jiangsu province, reached 606.5 kilograms last year, maintaining a high level of productivity.

The rice consumption of Wuxi is 2 million tons per year, 40 percent of which is locally produced. The direct seeding area of grain in Wuxi was 1.53 million mu, decreasing by over 1 million mu compared with the 1970s and 1980s.

Despite the long storage of grain, Wuxi should increase the grain self-sufficiency rate to avoid a shortage. To maintain food production, Wuxi should perfect the planning of food-production; encourage cultivated land circulation; set up more farmers' cooperation organizations; and promote the intensification, scale and modernization of food production, according to the officials of the Wuxi municipal agricultural commission.