Meixi Town has a good agricultural economic foundation, with planting and aquaculture as the main crops, rice, wheat and corn as the main food crops, rape as the main cash crops, and pigs, small poultry and sericulture as the main aquaculture industries. In 2006, the local GDP was 238.8 million yuan, the per capita net income of farmers was 3 1 13 yuan, and more than 30,000 pigs were slaughtered every year.
Messi Town has made full use of the traffic advantages of three expressways in China and built three industrial belts, one is Suiyu Expressway, the other is along Provincial Highway 205, and the third is along Yuxi Road. This year, Messi Town will promote the construction of planting and breeding bases in the town with industrial belt economy. Build 3000 mu of grass and livestock breeding base, develop 2000 mu of high-quality walnuts, introduce owner watermelon 1000 mu, graft 2000 mu of high-quality mulberries, and develop 5000 mu of Shatian pomelo.
The Party Committee and Government of Messi Town make full use of the town's resource advantages, take sericulture as the leading industry and Wan Li Silk Company as the leading enterprise, and propose that in 3-5 years, a new sericulture pattern of "regional layout, large-scale production, scientific management, enterprise management and integrated service" will be gradually formed in the town to realize sericulture industrialization. With Wan Li Silk Company as the leader and "local talent supermarket" as the carrier, the business model of "company+base+farmer" will be implemented, and Qiao Lei and other villages will be taken as examples to consolidate the achievements of returning farmland to forests, and do a good job in the management and protection of 8,000 mu of sericulture land, good mulberry grafting and sericulture technical training in the town. Up to now, Messi Town has cultivated 300 large sericulture households with more than five sericulture households, with more than one sericulture household per 10/0/50 households per quarter. From June to June, 2,600 silkworm eggs were distributed in spring and summer, producing fresh cocoons 105000 kg, realizing income of 2 100000 yuan, and increasing farmers' average income in 35 yuan.
The Party Committee and Government of Messi Town comprehensively analyzed the development situation of agricultural production in 2008, and arranged and deployed agricultural work in 2008 and beyond.
First, leaders attach great importance to it. Under the guidance of the spirit of the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Party committees and governments have fully implemented the agricultural work arrangements of municipal committees and governments, adhered to Scientific Outlook on Development, worked in a down-to-earth manner, and made full preparations for comprehensively exceeding the targets and tasks assigned by district committees and governments, and for agricultural development and increasing farmers' income.
Second, the funds and materials are ready. Continue to increase investment in high-yield grain and oil to ensure the smooth progress of spring ploughing production. As a big agricultural town, the town party committee and government attach great importance to the production of grain and oil, and adjust all kinds of production materials such as crop seeds, fertilizers, pesticides and agricultural films in Da Chun to ensure the production of agricultural materials in Da Chun.
The third is to do a good job in the construction of demonstration areas. According to the requirements of "tackling key problems in 100 mu, showing in 1000 mu, demonstrating in 10000 mu", under the leadership of city and district agricultural technicians, a demonstration village of no-tillage technology with intensive tillage and seedling throwing was established, focusing on building a key demonstration production belt of grain and oil in Yuxi Road, and doing a good job in rice seedling raising, seedling throwing, mixed waxy planting, rice intensive tillage demonstration film and plastic film corn cultivation in Qiao Lei Village.
The fourth is to strengthen assessment and supervision. Party committees and governments organized inspection teams for spring ploughing production, went deep into villages in the town to conduct special inspections on spring ploughing production, informed villages with poor spring ploughing production, and included the work performance of resident cadres in the year-end target assessment to promote the production in Da Chun.