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Trends in China's vegetable exports.

Li Wu

Postharvest handling of fresh vegetables. Proceedings of a workshop held in Beijing, People's Republic of China, 9-11 May 2001

2001

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China is the world's biggest vegetable producer. Some 13 million ha are devoted to vegetable production, which totalled 405 Mt in 2000. The land produced an average of 300 kg of fresh vegetables for each citizen. China grows a wide variety of vegetables and their cultivation has been rapidly developing in recent years. There has been a strong trend in exports of vegetables by China since 1990. Statistics for 2000 from vegetable production areas indicated exports totalling 3.15 Mt. The provinces of Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Liaoning, Heilongjiang, and Gansu, and the cities Beijing, Tianjin, and Shanghai are 11 of China's largest source regions for vegetables for export. Chinese cabbage, cabbage, radish, garlic, onion, oriental bunching onions, beans, broccoli, Chinese broccoli and choy sun, carrots, ginger, and Chinese yam are the main fresh vegetables exported. Beans and potatoes are the main frozen vegetables exported. Vegetables have been exported to Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Russia, Canada, and Europe. The trend to increasing exports of vegetables by China has raised postharvest problems in the areas of, for example, pre-cooling, packaging and transport.