Hunan Province is the most important rice - producing area in the South of China. Rice yield and area under crops of rice are ranked first in China.

The area of planted poplar forests and agroforestry (combining trees and crops or livestock) in China is about 8 million hectares, 30 times greater than the areas under poplar cultivation in France.

To raise grain yield it is necessary to increase the investment in agriculture and to ensure proper scale of growing area under grain crops.