Cropland grows, bumper harvest tipped

Grain farmland will increase for the sixth consecutive year to 108 million hectares in 2009, the National Bureau of Statistics said.

Figures released yesterday show arable grain farmland will increase by 1.35 million hectares on last year.

The data also predicted a bumper summer harvest from 27 million hectares of farmland, which is an increase of 340,000 hectares on last year.