This summer, Maoming City has achieved another bumper harvest in early rice production. According to the Maoming Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the planting area of early rice in Maoming has exceeded 96,000 hectares in 2025, with a total output of over 620,000 tons and a per unit yield of more than 6 tons per hectare. Both total output and per unit yield rose by 0.4% and 0.9% year-on-year, respectively, realizing "double growth" and hitting a new high in the past three years.
Mechanized harvesting of rice in Maoming.
As a major agricultural city in Guangdong Province, Maoming has seen its total agricultural output value exceed 100 billion yuan for five consecutive years. In the first half of this year, the figure reached 57.168 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 4.4% and 0.8 percentage points higher than in the first quarter, reflecting a sound momentum in agricultural production.
In recent years, Maoming has focused on key crops such as rice, corn, and sweet potatoes, and extensively launched campaigns to boost the per unit yield of grain and oil crops across the city. Multiple measures have been taken to elevate the overall grain per unit yield of the city.
Meanwhile, Maoming has guided and nurtured service entities to provide comprehensive agricultural production services. These include production trusteeship services for farmers, such as mechanized plowing and harvesting, unified pest control and prevention, and unified purchase and marketing. The annual service area exceeds 30,000 hectares, benefiting 120,000 small-scale farming households.
Through agricultural socialized services, Maoming has promoted a set of technical measures that are easy for farmers to master and suitable for large-scale implementation—including rational close planting and "one-spray multi-promotion" (a technique integrating fertilization, pest control, and growth promotion in a single spray). The implementation rate of key promoted agricultural technologies has reached 100%, and a range of high-quality crop varieties adapted to local conditions has been popularized, achieving a 100% coverage rate of improved seeds.
Reporter: Zou Xiangliang
Photo: Maoming Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs
Editor: Wei Shen, James Campion, Shen He
