date:Apr 12, 2013
rcent over the previous year, while rice imports surged 296.2 percent to 2.37 million metric tons.
However, the rises in the major grain products helped push up China's total agricultural products trade deficit by 44 percent to $48.94 billion last year.
Measured by weight, this meant that China's net grain imports passed 70 million metric tons last year, meaning the country's grain self-sufficiency rate dropped to 98 percent.
The report attributed the surge in corn demand to rapid development