Agricultural Development in Shixia Town

The town has 36,078 mu of cultivated land and 288 mu of woodland 1, 7 1. The main food crops are rice and corn; Cash crops include sugarcane, peanuts, cassava and soybeans. , rich in bananas, longan, citrus, Sanhua plum and other fruits, as well as 28,000 mu of red octagonal economic forest. In 2002, the total output value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery was 3210.2 million yuan, the total output value of township enterprises was 59.07 million yuan, the fiscal revenue was 4.5 million yuan, and the per capita net income of the whole town was10.8 million yuan.

Shixia Town pays close attention to the adjustment of agricultural industrial structure, vigorously develops improved sugarcane production, actively carries out the transformation of octagonal low-yield forest, develops tourism and increases farmers' income. In the past two years, the town party committee and the town government have successively won the honorary titles of "advanced grass-roots party organization", "advanced units in building two civilizations" and "advanced collective in border defense construction".