The earthquake in southwest China has seriously affected agricultural production in Sichuan and other disaster-hit regions, said a senior official from the Ministry of Agriculture on Saturday.
As the country's leading agricultural province, Sichuan provided six percent of
the nation's total grain output,
The quake, which also triggered landslides in the mountainous province, damaged
33,333 hectares of farmland, including more than 10,000 hectares of wheat and
rape and more than 20,000 hectares of vegetables in 13 worst-hit cities and
counties
As the disaster also destroyed irrigation systems in some areas, up to 100,000 hectares of rice paddies might have to be used to grow alternative crops, he said.
"A large amount of farming facilities, including more than 20,000 farm machines, were damaged," Wei said. He admitted the repair work would be "very difficult".
He said the 12.5 million heads of poultry and livestock killed in the quake were
mostly poultry.
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