date:Nov 01, 2013
epartment of Agriculture also forecast China's soybean imports to hit 69 million tons in the 2013-14 market year, a 16 per cent increase over the previous year.
Zhang Xiaoping, director for China at the US Soybean Export Council, said that because the price of corn has remained high, many farmers in Heilongjiang switched from growing soybeans to corn, even though the latter crop costs more to cultivate.
Data show that the declining cultivation of soybeans in Heilongjiang has been because of hi