Economic Watch: China's top grain-producing province enhances agricultural returns via expanded contract farming

HARBIN, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- In the sprawling rice-packaging plant of Qiaofu Dayuan Agricultural Co., Ltd. in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, robotic arms stack bags of premium rice ready for shipping to its customers.

Among hundreds of rice-producing firms in Wuchang, a city administered by Heilongjiang's capital of Harbin and regarded as Heilongjiang's premier area for growing high-quality rice, the fi