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Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, known as the country's "grain barn", produced about 80 million metric tons of grain this year, maintaining its role as China's top grain producer for 15 years in a row, official data showed on Saturday. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, Heilongjiang's grain output exceeded 80 million tons for the first time, accounting for 11 percent of the country's total. ▲ Soybean is harvested at a farm of Beidahuang Group in Jixi, Heilongjiang province, in October. Wang Jinbin/Xinhua This year's harvest was hard won, challenged with the strenuous tasks of boosting soybean production and dealing with extreme weather that caused multiple natural disasters, inflicting losses in some grain-producing areas, said Pang Haitao, director of the provincial department of agriculture and rural affairs. He attributed the harvest to black soil conservation measures, the cultivation of high-quality seeds, and modern agricultural management. The province pl
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