华东区小麦的栽培面积约7千余万亩,有一半分布在淮河以北平原地区,另一半多数分布在长江下游的稻麦两熟地区,包括安徽沿江两岸的广大地区及苏南太湖流域、镇扬山区和苏北的里下河区,以及浙江省嘉兴、金华专区等地。解放前,这个地区小麦的栽培技术极为粗放,大多数是白田下种,因此小麦单位面积 East China wheat cultivation area of ​​about more than 7 million mu, half of the distribution in the northern plains of the Huaihe River, the majority of the other half are located in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River rice and wheat regions, including vast areas along the banks of the Yangtze River in Anhui and the Taihu Lake basin in southern Jiangsu, Zhen Yang Shan and northern Lixiahe District, as well as Zhejiang Jiaxing, Jinhua area and other places. Before the liberation, the cultivation techniques of wheat in this area were very extensive, most of them were planted under the field of wheat, so the unit area of ​​wheat