Agriculture

Beijing generated 9.53 billion yuan in agricultural added value, 3.3 percent over the 2002. The combined value of output came to 23.79 billion yuan for agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fisheries, up 7.5 percent year-on-year. Animal, poultry and fish farming accounted for 57 percent of the agricultural sector's output value, an improvement of 0.3 percentage points over the previous year. Cash crops were sown on 48.5 percent of the farmland available in Beijing Municipality, up from 45.4 percent in 2002.