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 | | The subsidies, already earmarked to provincial governments earlier this month, will be distributed to the rice growers according to their acreage under early rice in southern China and round-grained non-glutinous rice in northeast China. |
 | | The seven provinces include Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Anhui, Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning. |
 | | China's grain output continued to drop for the fifth consecutive year in 2003 to about 430 million tons, from a record of some 520 million tons in 1998, which, coupled with rising grainprices, has triggered national concern for food security. |
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