What is the state of agricultural development in Taikang County?

Taikang County is located in the eastern plains of Henan Province, north of Zhoukou City, bordering Huaiyang in the south, adjoining Fugou and Xihua in the west, facing Zhecheng and Suixian in Shangqiu City in the east, and connecting Tongxu and Qixian in Kaifeng City in the north. The county has 23 townships and 768 administrative villages, with a total area of 1,759 square kilometers, arable land of 1,710,000 acres, and a total population of 1,487,000 people, and is known as "Silver Taikang" for its abundant production of wheat and cotton. It is a national advanced county for grain production, a national model county for greening, a national base county for commercial grain, a national model county for science and technology, a national county for transferring hogs out of the country, a national model county for safe agricultural machinery, a national model county for transferring rural labor force to employment, and one of the first counties in the country with the best investment value (environment) in the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan".

Taikang has obvious location advantages. With Shangqiu, Kaifeng, Xuchang, Zhoukou and other surrounding municipal cities are about 100 kilometers away from each other, the regional center city is prominent. Daguang, Yongdeng and Zhoushang expressways cross Taikang County, connecting it to the national highway network. 311 and 106 national highways, as well as provincial highways, such as Taizhe Road and Min-Tai Road, intersect in Taikang County. The Yubo Railway, which is about to start construction, crosses the whole area, forming a well-connected transportation network in the county. Taikang has abundant electric power resources, and the high-voltage lines of Danjiang and Gezhouba power grids have been imported into the county, which has significantly increased the power supply capacity. Information and communication has developed rapidly, and a digital communication network has been formed covering the whole county, contacting the whole country and extending overseas.

Rich agricultural resources. Taikang County is a traditional agricultural county, agricultural resources are mainly wheat, cotton, corn, soybeans, sweet potatoes, peanuts, melons and fruits. By adjusting and optimizing the structure of the agricultural industry, highlighting the promotion of modern agricultural demonstration zones and the construction of efficient parks, in 2014, the county's crop sowing area of 4.308 million acres, of which 1.72 million acres of wheat, with an average yield of 550.1 kilograms, a total output of 946 million kilograms; autumn crop sowing area of 2.588 million acres, of which 1.55 million acres of corn, with an average yield of 589 kilograms, a total output of 913 million kilograms , soybean 100,000 mu, an average yield of 140 kilograms, a total yield of 0.14 billion kilograms, sweet potatoes and other autumn grain 40,000 mu, an average yield of 450 kilograms, a total yield of 0.18 billion kilograms, the total output of autumn grain amounted to 945 million kilograms; to achieve the county's total grain output of 1.891 billion kilograms, for the first Zhoukou City, the first large grain production county. Cotton 120,000 acres, 420,000 acres of melons, chili peppers and vegetables 120,000 acres, 213,000 acres of peanuts, sesame 0.5 million acres, the benefits increased significantly. Daylight greenhouse 100, leading industrialized enterprises 24, 1486 farmers' professional cooperatives.