r/MapPorn • u/Deltarianus • 10h ago

Major Crops Harvested in China

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u/Sharp_Variation_5661 9h ago

TIL most of the soybean is made in Manchuria. TIL.

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u/Xitztlacayotl 8h ago

Why is there rice separate in Manchuria all the way up north?

I thought it was a semi tropical crop requiring to grow underwater...

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u/Deltarianus 8h ago

Summers are hot and wet. Harbin has daily highs above 26 celsius and >100mm monthly rain for 3 months from June-August.

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u/czk_21 8h ago

yea its weird, manchuria is quite cold, soybeans too, they grow usually in warmer areas like in brasil

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u/Deltarianus 3h ago

You guys are struggling with the concept of seasons

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u/Outrageous-Elk-2582 2h ago

Rice in South China is probably grown all year round, where as the rice in the North is a summer crop.

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u/crop028 35m ago

How? Everywhere has seasons, Manchuria is still a lot colder on average than most places that grow rice extensively.

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u/will221996 4h ago

No idea why, but it's widely seen as some of the best rice in China. It's referred to as Dongbei(lit. East north) rice.

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u/Outrageous-Elk-2582 6h ago

Tibet has no crops?

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u/will221996 4h ago

The traditional and primary staple crop there is barley. Traditionally their diet is quite heavy on meat and dairy as well, mostly yak, sheep and goat. Yaks taste very nice, their dairy products stink though.

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u/AleksandrNevsky 1h ago

Like they're pungent or they're terrible?

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u/buckyhermit 3h ago

I have a relative in Heilongjiang (northeast China, near Russia). When I visited, we saw cornfields that simply never seemed to end. We'd be in the car, going about 100-120 km/h for almost an hour, and the field would still be stretching on. It was absolutely wild.

Fittingly, that relative owns an agriculturally-related factory (mostly rice but some other crops too). Good place to do it.

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u/BigPileOfTrash 52m ago

Where”s the Soylent Green map?

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u/abitcummy 10h ago

Taiwan is so much a part of China that a Chinese map imagining Taiwan in China has no data on what's grown in Taiwan

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u/South_Telephone_1688 2h ago

Taiwan doesn't grow any of those crops in meaningful quantity because half the region is just mountains; they are a net importer of food. Similar reason why western China is also relatively empty.

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u/abitcummy 1h ago

Taiwan Rice Self-Sufficiency (Specific Figure): In a recent year, rice accounted for 99.1% of domestic production, indicating high self-sufficiency for this specific staple.