date:Apr 12, 2013
Corn overtook rice as the largest food product in China for the first time last year, according to a Chinese Academy for Social Sciences report released on Wednesday.
Domestic corn production grew 8 percent to 208 million metric tons, while rice output edged up just 1.6 percent to 204 million tons.
Another major grain, wheat, grew 2.7 percent, said the report, which is conducted by Rural Development Institute under CASS.
China also imported 5.2 million metric tons of corn in 2012, up 197.1 pe