China loses 25m tons of grain annually
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July 4, 2012, Wednesday
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AN agriculture official said yesterday China loses about 25 million tons of grain annually due to improper storage.
"Such losses are startling," Zhang Tianzuo, director of farm produce processing at the Ministry of Agriculture, told an agricultural forum held in Beijing, citing a loss ratio of 8 to 12 percent.
That amount is about equal to the annual wheat production of Australia, one of the world's major cereal exporters.
China also loses over 20 percent of the vegetables it produces every year, Zhang said.
He attributed the heavy losses in grain to substandard processing facilities and laggard technologies farmers and local agricultural associations use in preliminary processing.
He said there was huge potential to improve the processing facilities. The sector will grow rapidly in the next decade or even longer, he added.
"Such losses are startling," Zhang Tianzuo, director of farm produce processing at the Ministry of Agriculture, told an agricultural forum held in Beijing, citing a loss ratio of 8 to 12 percent.
That amount is about equal to the annual wheat production of Australia, one of the world's major cereal exporters.
China also loses over 20 percent of the vegetables it produces every year, Zhang said.
He attributed the heavy losses in grain to substandard processing facilities and laggard technologies farmers and local agricultural associations use in preliminary processing.
He said there was huge potential to improve the processing facilities. The sector will grow rapidly in the next decade or even longer, he added.
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