(Yicai Global) Oct. 13 -- Chinese crops are increasingly being grown from its own seeds, Wu Xiaoling, deputy director of the Ministry of Agriculture's Bureau of Seed Management, said at a press briefing today.

As most cotton is transgenic, the market share of China's self-selected and cultivated transgenic cotton makes up more than 95 percent of the country's cotton, with foreign seeds making up less than 5 percent.

Among China's five major crops: rice, wheat, corn, soybean and cotton, China self-cultivates several breeds of rice, wheat and soybean.

Foreign corn held a market share of around 15 percent five years ago, but this has fallen to around 10 percent thanks to China's reform and innovations in corn. The Xianyu 335 variety, developed by DuPont Pioneer, is a vivid example of this, with its lodging and disease resistance being inferior to domestic types. Plantations of Xianyu 335 are declining every year, down from around 2.8 million hectares to just over 2 million hectares, Wu added.