2019 Corn Output Would be 250 Million MT, down 3.0% from 2018

In July, the hydrothermal condition in most of north China and Huang-Huai Region was relatively good, the temperature was relatively high and soil moisture was suitable, which are good for corn growth. Only in the north of northeast, there was more rainfall and the temperature was relatively low. By the end of July, in the northeast, north China and northwest, most of spring corn had entered a period of tasseling-silking; in the east of southwest and Xinjiang, corn had been in a period of silking-milking. This month, the prediction on the average yield of corn was adjusted up, down 1% from last year.
 
However, the subsidies to soybean producers were obviously higher than those to corn growers, and it was relatively dry in west Heilongjiang and northeast Inner Mongolia this spring, leading to a delay of corn sowing and further driving farm households to grow other crops. In some areas of northeast, the decline in corn planting areas was relatively obvious, of which the decline in planting areas in Heilongjiang ranged between 7-8%. Corn planting areas in 2019 would be down 2% from last year.
 
It was predicted that corn output would be 250 million MT in 2019, down 3.0% or 7 million MT from last year.