What’s new: Extreme weather last year that included a nonstop week of rain in Henan and severe flooding in and around Hebei contributed to the two major grain-producing provinces’ drops in output, Caixin has learned.
Henan’s annual grain output fell by 2.4% to 66.24 million tons in 2023, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) last month. A staff member from the provincial agricultural agency blamed the decline on the “rare continuous rain that lasted a week” last summer in the central Chinese province.
