China: Planting Seeds Annual 2025

China's seed supply for marketing year 2025/26 is sufficient to meet domestic demand, with seed producers generally 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 still relies on high-end foreign germplasm for specialty seeds. Seed exports are growing, particularly for rice, cotton, and vegetables, driven by strong demand in Asia for Chinese-developed seeds as a finished product for crop production as well as from foreign seed companies which utilize operations in China for certain intermediate portions of their global supply chains.