Agriculture in Laoqitai Town

Town * * * cultivated land area144,000 mu, cultivated land area125,000 mu, belonging to Jinghe irrigation area. The main crops are: wheat, barley, flax, rape, corn, melon, beet, potato, flowers and beans. While further adjusting and optimizing the planting structure, Laoqitai Town has accelerated the transformation from traditional animal husbandry to modern animal husbandry, and the development of animal husbandry has shown a good development momentum. In 2005, the highest number of livestock reached 226,000, and the output value of animal husbandry accounted for 44% of the total agricultural output value. In 2005, the town's GDP reached 63.08 million yuan, an increase of 13.8% over the previous year, and the per capita net income of farmers reached 48 16 yuan, an increase of 422 yuan over the previous year.