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Introduction
 
Data - China's Food Balance in 1996
FAO Food Balance for China in 1996 (Demand Method) /*
  Domestic Supply (1000 tons) Domestic Utilization (1000 tons) Per Cap. Supply
Products Pro-
duction		 Imports Stock
Changes		 Exports Total Feed Seed Pro-
cessing		 Waste Other
Uses		 Food kg
per
Year		 kcal Protein Fat
Cereals 388,032 18,305 6,982 1,828 411,491 129,557 9,385 11,057 23,089 972 237,431 192.7 1,671 36.8 5.1
Wheat 110,569 9,352 1,030 972 119,979 4,005 4,800 1,770 5,105 469 103,830 84.3 616 17.5 2.5
Rice (milled) 131,449 779   368 131,860 7,532 2,911 1,319 6,252 0 113,845 92.4 931 16.3 2.0

Maize

127,866

6490

5242

285

139,314

109,482

1,174

4,047

10,840

245

13,526

11

88

1.9

0.3

Other /1

18,148

1,684

710

203

20,338

8,538

500

3,921

892

258

6,230

5

36

1.1

0.3
Starchy Roots /2 182,062 2,129 4 207 183,987 81,785 2,802 10,435 9,043 1,832 78,090 63.4 161 2.0 0.4
Sugarcrops /3 87,986     6 87,980 18,870   68,916     194 0.2 0 0.1  
Sweeteners /4 8,413 1,467 1,130 910 10,100     16   46 10,039 8.1 79 0.0 0.0
Pulses /5 4,916 268   548 4,636 2,086 278   153   2,118 1.7 16 1.0 0.1
Oilcrops /6 42,939 3,900 707 865 46,681 7,747 1,705 26,304 1,511 1,548 7,867 6.4 63 4.1 3.7
Vegetable Oils /7 6,950 2,978 1 565 9,363 0   1   3,097 6,272 5.1 123 0.0 13.9
Vegetables /8 199,624 172   2,756 197,040 1,531   0 15,380   180,132 146.2 106 6.1 0.9
Fruit (excl. wine) /9 76,380 1,271   1,175 76,476 1,360   2,059 6,385 3 66,644 54.1 47 0.6 0.3
Stimulants /10 665 80 0 190 555       18   541 0.4 1 0.1 0.0
Spices /11 451 15   122 343       7   335 0.3 2 0.1 0.1
Alcoholic Bev. /12 28,730 219   166 28,783       20 61 28,702 23.3 86 0.2  
Meat /13 51,517 426   1,138 50,806 1   26   3 50,790 41.2 335 13.1 30.9
Pig Meat (Pork) 33,869 17   584 33,302     24   3 33,275 27.0 264 8.2 25.3
Poultry Meat 10,568 319   389 10,498     2   0 10,498 8.5 41 2.7 3.2
Other 7,080 90   165 7,006           7,020 5.7 30 2.2 2.4
Offal 2,889 10   6 2,893 56       18 2,819 2.3 7 1.1 0.2
Animal Fats /14 2,438 433   20 2,851 56       649 2,149 1.7 34 0.0 3.8
Milk (excl. butter) 10,191 930 1 78 11,043 987     470 3 9,583 7.8 16 0.9 0.9
Eggs 19,885 1   41 19,845   503 0 1,012 313 18,018 14.6 59 4.6 4.2
Fish, Seafood /15 25,529 6,546   2,062 30,014 6,801   -162   0 23,376 19.0 30 4.9 0.9
Freshwater Fish 10,555 25   95 10,486         0 10,485 8.5 16 2.5 0.6
Other Fish & Seafood 14,974 6,521   1,967 19,528         0 12,891 10.5 14 2.4 0.3
Other Aquatic P. /16 4,999 9   0       0     5,008 4.1 4 0.3 0.0
Miscellaneous                         0 0.1 0.0
Grand Total                         2,844 76.0 65.9
Vegetable Products                         2,359 51.1 24.8
Animal Products                         485 24.9 41.0
Note:
/* Data include Taiwan (but not Hong Kong)
/1 Other Cereals include coarse grains: barley (excluding beer), rye, oats, millet, sorghum, and other cereals.
/2 Includes: cassava, potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams, and other roots
/3 Includes: sugar cane and sugar beet
/4 Includes: non-centrifugal sugar and sugar (raw equivalent)
/5 Includes: beans, peas and other pulses
/6 Includes: soybeans, groundnuts, sunflower seeds, rape and mustard seed, cottonseed, coconuts (including copra), sesamseeds, palm kernels, olives, and other oilcrops
/7 Includes: soybean oil, groundnut oil, sunflower seed oil, rape & mustard seed oil, cottonseed oil, palm kernel oil, palm oil, copra oil, sesamseed oil, olive oil, ricebran oil, maize germ oil, and other oilcrop oil
/8 Includes: tomatoes, onions, and other vegetables
/9 Includes: oranges, mandarins, lemons, limes, grapefruit, other citrus fruits, bananas, apples (excl. cider), pineapples, dates, grapes (excl. wine) and other fruits
/10 Includes: coffee, cocoa beans, tea
/11 Includes: pepper, pimento, cloves, and other spices
/12 Includes: wine, barley beer, fermented beverages, alcoholic beverages, non-food alcohol
/13 Includes: beef, veal, mutton, goat meat, pigmeat (pork), poultry meat, and other meat
/14 Includes: butter, ghee, cream, raw animal fat, fish body oil, fish liver oil
/15 Includes: freshwater fish, demersal fish, pelagic fish, other marine fish, crustaceans, cephalopods, other mollusks
/16 Other Aquatic Products includes: other aquatic animals, aquatic plants
Source: FAO, FAOSTAT Online: Food Balance Sheets. 1999 (Downloaded: February 1, 1999)
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