2025年种植种子年度报告

Voluntary Report–Voluntary-Public Distribution Report Name:Planting Seeds Annual 2025 Country:China-People's Republic of Post:Beijing ReportCategory:Planting Seeds, Food Security Prepared By:FAS China Staff Approved By:Benjamin Boroughs Report Highlights: China’s seed supply for marketing year 2025/26 is sufficient to meet domestic demand, with seedproducersgenerally achieving high yields for major crops including corn, rice, wheat, and soybeans.Imports of vegetable and grass seeds are declining due to rising domestic production, though China stillrelies on high-end foreign germplasm for specialty seeds. Seed exports are growing, particularly for rice, THIS REPORT CONTAINS ASSESSMENTS OF COMMODITY AND TRADE ISSUES MADE BY USDA STAFF FAS China provides this reporting and analysis as a service to U.S. farmers, ranchers, ruralcommunities, and agribusinesses in support of a worldwide agricultural informationsystem and a I.Production China is the world’s second-largest seed market, following the United States. The demand forquality seeds is rising, driven by modernization of agriculture, food security concerns, and thepush for sustainable farming practices. Improving seed performance has been identified as a keystrategic focus for China to meet its food security goals. While Beijing has sought to increase Like in many economic sectors in China, transparent and reliable information for the seed sectoris not consistently available. According toChina Major Crop Seed Supply and Demand in 2025-2026released by the National Agricultural Technology Extension and Service Center of theMinistry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA)in September 2025, China’s seed supply for MARA has been tasked with improving the capabilities of the Chinese seed sector. This year,MARA has emphasized the success of the Chinesesector in reliably providing sufficientquantities of seed and improving their risk management. MARA also states that companies areseeing improved market returns for newly introduced varieties. On the other hand, MARA isencouraging companies to make “horizontal comparisons” and “make rational decisions”, which CornSeed According to MARA’s statistics, MY 2025/26 corn seed planted area was 257,000 hectares (ha),representing a 10 percent decrease from the previous year. Despite this decline, the area remainsrelatively high compared to the 5-year average (see Figure 1). Favorable weather in key cornseed production regions, along with the adoption of advanced seed production technologies, isexpected to result in record-high yields. For context, last year’s averageyield was 5,950 kg/ha—the highest in the past five years—and this year’s yield is projected to surpass that benchmark. THIS REPORT CONTAINS ASSESSMENTS OF COMMODITY AND TRADE ISSUES MADE BY USDA STAFF Varietiesexpected to perform particularly well in the marketincludegenetically engineered (GE)hybridsforthe North China Plain summer corn region,and ear-rot-resistant varietiesforthe Hybrid Rice Seeds In MY2025/26, Post estimates the hybrid rice seed planted area at 150,000 ha, representing a 17percent increase over the previous year. Favorable weather conditions appear to have pushedaverage yields above lastyear’s 2,410 kg/ha. Post estimates total hybrid rice seed production toexceed 365,000 MT. Current hybrid rice seed stocks are estimated at 91,000 MT, whileforecasted commercial seed demand for MY2025/26is330,000 MT,including roughly 30,000 Conventional Rice Seeds The conventional rice seed planted area is estimated at 178,500 ha in MY2025/26, nearlyunchanged from the previous year. Key production regions, including Heilongjiang and Jiangsu,experienced favorable climatic conditions, leading to yields higher than last year’s average of7,846 kg/ha. Post estimates total conventional rice seed production to exceed 1.4 MMT. Market Wheat Seeds Post estimates that wheat seed planted area reached 940,000 ha in MY2025/26, with an averageyield of around 7,200 kg/ha, resulting in total production of 6.8 MMT. Together with 130,000 MMT. Market demand for commercial seed is estimated at 3.9 MMT, indicating that supply ismore than sufficient. In terms of variety trends, high-yield, high-quality wheat varieties that are Soybean Seeds ForMY2025/26,Post estimates the soybean seedplantedareaat 386,000ha in an 11 percentdecrease from the previous year.While the Northeast experienced normal climatic conditions,theNorth China Plain region faced early drought, which was mitigated by timely rainfall later inthe season. As a result, average yields are expected to exceed last year’s 2,758 kg/ha. Postestimates total production to exceed 1.1 MMT.The commercial seed demand for MY2025/26 is II.Trade Imports For MY 2025/26,Post forecasts seed imports at 70,000 MT, a 10 percent decline from MY2024/25 due to lower grassand vegetableseed imports, whichtogetheraccount forover90percent of total seed imports by volume. Grass seeds accounted for 81 percent of import volume