Farmers harvest rice with a machine in Xinjian county, Jiangxi province, on Oct 9, 2011. Farmers in Jiangxi have good weather conditions for their harvest recently and 19,824 square km rice is being harvested in the province. The Ministry of Agriculture says early forecasts show that China' grain output for 2011 is expected to reach 550 million tons, making 2011 the eighth consecutive year that country's grain output has increased. [Photo/Xinhua]