There comes good news after all the autumn grains of Shanghai have been reaped: Shanghai’s high-yield grain project doubled the acreage of farmland, which brought about a record high in the city’s grain production. This year, the agricultural departments at the municipal, district and township levels joined hands in increasing grain production. As a result, 1,250 high-yield grain demonstrative bases have been established so far this year, approximately twice more than last year’s 426 bases; the acreage covered by these bases is 438 thousand mu, accounting for 16.3% of the city’s total acreage of paddy fields and an increase of 250 thousand mu from last year. Of them, the high-yield rice demonstration acreage is 363 thousand mu, 175 thousand mu more than last year. The demonstrative acreage for wheat has reached 75 thousand mu for the first time.

In 2009, the 168 demonstrative wheat bases of the city reach an average production of 384.7 kilograms per mu, a 49.2% increase from or 126.9 kilograms more than the average 257.8 kilograms per mu of the city’s second-grade wheat fields; the city’s 182 high-yield rice demonstrative bases reach an average production of 628.1 kilograms per mu, a 13.5% increase from the city’s historical record of 553.1 kilograms on average per mu.