Xiangcheng is a traditional agricultural area. Historically, wheat, corn, beans, cotton, sesame and other crops were mainly planted, and the cultivated land area was 1 162000 mu. It is one of the six key counties and cities in Henan Province, a major grain-producing county in Henan Province, a national commodity grain production base, an advanced unit of plain greening in China, an advanced unit of plain greening standards in Henan Province and a model city of land greening in Henan Province.

In 20 10, the city's total agricultural production value was 5.49 billion yuan, up 5% over the previous year. Grain production has achieved another bumper harvest. Wheat has increased production and income for seven consecutive years. In 20 10, the grain planting area, yield and total output of the whole city reached a record high, and it was once again rated as "advanced county and city in national grain production", and it is actively striving for "big county in national grain production". It was rated as "advanced city for safe grain storage" in the province. White sesame has obtained the national certificate of origin. The comprehensive agricultural production capacity has been continuously enhanced. The annual fund for supporting agriculture is1.1.200 million yuan. A high-yield demonstration area of 40,000 mu of wheat and 32,000 mu of corn will be built. The city added 20,000 mu of farmland for drought and flood protection, 47,000 mu of waterlogging area, 25,000 mu of effective irrigation area, and 23,000 mu of low-and medium-yield fields were transformed. Healthy development of agricultural industrialization. Three provincial leading industrialization enterprises were added, and the number of farmers' professional cooperatives reached 17 1. Animal husbandry has developed rapidly, with 24 19 farms and 36 farming communities in the city, and it is striving to become a "national pig breeding county".

Lin fruit industry

Xiangcheng has built a farmland shelterbelt system that integrates urban and rural areas, points, areas, nets and belts. The total number of trees reached 30 million trees (piers), the standing stock was 65.438+0.6 million cubic meters, the forest coverage rate was 22%, and the total forestry output value was 560 million yuan. Expressway, 106 national highway, provincial highway, 33 1 provincial highway, Pinglian provincial highway, five major rivers and major county roads such as Sha, Gu, Fen, Ni and Changhong have all been afforested to a high standard, and the floodplain land has been developed, reaching the advanced standard of plain greening. 1999 was awarded the "first prize for research and implementation of social forestry engineering projects" by the State Forestry Administration. 200 1 was commended by Henan province as "advanced unit of advanced standards for plain greening in Henan province". In the fruit industry, the city has developed 50,000 mu of high-quality miscellaneous fruits, 0.6 million mu of flowers/kloc-0 and 0.6 million mu of ginkgo leaf picking nurseries, all of which have achieved good economic benefits.

animal husbandry

The production of livestock products in Xiangcheng is developing towards high quality, scale, regionalization and orientation. Xiang Pig and Huai Shan are famous fine varieties and local specialties in China. Under the guidance of governments at all levels and the popularization of science and technology, the situation that families are scattered and inefficient has been broken. By the end of September, 2009, there were 533,000 live pigs, 305,900 cattle, 6,543,800 sheep, 95,000 poultry and 7,654,438,803 poultry. There are 2498 large-scale farms and 30 breeding communities in the city. After 1978, Xiangcheng state-owned commercial enterprises have successively carried out a series of reforms and explorations in enterprise management and operation, such as decentralization, contracting operation, four liberalization, state-owned private operation, leasing operation, joint-stock system and joint-stock cooperative system. The government gives preferential treatment to individual and private enterprises in taxation, market management, material supply and capital, and restores the development of individual and private enterprises and collective enterprises. The circulation pattern of coexistence of state-owned, collective and individual economic elements has gradually taken shape. Cities take various forms to attract investment and strengthen market construction. The construction of commercial infrastructure in the city has reached a new level, and commercial circulation has become increasingly prosperous and active. The city has developed a number of specialty stores, chain stores and large supermarkets, and implemented franchise and chain operation. The number, scale, grade and operating income of commercial stores are in the forefront of counties, cities and districts in Zhoukou.

In 2003 and 2004, Xiangcheng was successively identified by the provincial party committee and the provincial government as a key city for opening to the outside world and a key contact city for exporting foreign labor services. There are 24 foreign-funded enterprises in the city, 50 enterprises with import and export management rights and 2 enterprises with foreign management rights. The annual export volume is more than 20 million US dollars, and the actual utilization of foreign capital and the import and export of foreign trade rank first in Zhoukou City. In 2003, it utilized foreign capital18.65 million US dollars and earned 25.32 million US dollars through export, which was commended by the provincial government as "an advanced unit for developing an open economy". The pattern of foreign trade has basically taken shape.