Seeds are positioned at the uppermost source of the agricultural production chain, serving as the most fundamental and crucial production materials in agriculture, as well as the foundation for human survival and development. According to data from the Ministry of Land and Resources, China's per capita arable land retention is less than 1.4 mu (亩), merely 40% of the world average. Increasing grain yield has become the fundamental approach to ensuring national food supply security. Agricultural production relies on seeds, with the seed industry constituting the starting point of the entire agricultural industrial chain, significantly influencing and even determining crop yield and quality. As a major agricultural nation, China's seed industry possesses vast and stable market demand.
Globally, the seed industry has established a mature industrial chain comprising three key segments: "variety breeding-seed production-sales," with breeding representing the core component. Crop germplasm resources provide the genetic foundation for variety improvement and serve as the material basis for cultivating high-quality, high-yield crops. Recent advancements in biotechnology and computer technology have driven rapid development in breeding techniques, with agriculturally advanced nations entering the Breeding 4.0 Era characterized by "biotechnology + artificial intelligence + big data". Transgenic technology, gene editing technology, whole-genome selection breeding, and genomics have become the core frontiers of international biotechnology breeding research. As fundamental conditions for agricultural development, an active and innovative seed industry landscape holds paramount significance.
The globalization of the seed industry continues to unlock the enormous potential of China's seed market. With the gradual opening of the seed market, multinational seed corporations will inevitably exert greater pressure on domestic seed enterprises, while simultaneously driving their adaptation to industrial development environments and fostering the growth of a distinctive Chinese national seed industry.
CnOpenData presents China's Seed Import and Export Information Data, covering nearly a decade of seed import/export approval records in China, containing fields such as Applicant Organization (申请单位), Import/Export Country (进出口国家), Crop Name (作物名称), Seed Supplier (供种单位), Export Unit (出口单位), and Application Date (申请日期).
Temporal Coverage
- Seed Import Information Table: January 21, 2010 - December 31, 2024
- Seed Export Information Table: December 5, 2012 - December 31, 2024
Data Scale
Field Demonstration
Sample Data
China Seed Import Information Table
China Seed Export Information Table
Data Update Frequency
Annual updates