Hepu Town has a long history, with outstanding people and talented people. Wanderers are all over the country and even the world, and each takes the lead. Hepu Town belongs to the plain area, with fertile land and rich products. It is a production demonstration base of high-quality oil, cotton and improved pigs in Hubei Province.
The rural economic structure of Hepu Town is increasingly optimized, and the pillar industries have begun to take shape. The economy developed rapidly. In 24, the total industrial and agricultural output value of the town was 493 million yuan, the fiscal revenue was 8 million yuan, and the per capita net income of farmers was 2,38 yuan. The town has formed three characteristic pillar industries: chestnut, iron ore and tourism. Marketing all over the world, demand exceeds supply. With China's accession to the WTO and the implementation of the strategy of developing the western region, a new round of opening-up and development is coming. Hepu Town Committee and government will firmly seize this historical opportunity, start a new round of entrepreneurship, realize a new round of development, highlight the article of attracting investment and expanding opening-up, improve the investment environment as always, further improve the service level, and create a good social atmosphere for enterprise development.
"Preferential policies, superior environment and excellent service"-Hepu Town will wholeheartedly welcome domestic and foreign merchants and people of insight to invest and start businesses with favorable and relaxed policy environment, fair and orderly market environment, high-quality and efficient service environment, perfect supporting facilities environment, stable and peaceful social environment and simple, warm, generous and hospitable people. Hepu Town is an agricultural village mainly engaged in planting, 8% of which is below the planting line at an altitude of 24 meters. It has always been a "water nest" of "small water harvesting and big water losing". Based on the fact that the town is low-lying and has many ditches, Hepu Town has changed "water-avoiding agriculture" into "water-carrying agriculture" with the support of the Party Committee and government of Hepu Town. According to the idea of "mechanism mobilization, technology drive and typical drive", it has vigorously developed the mode of shrimp-rice continuous cropping and shrimp-crab polyculture. Hepu Town has benefited from the polyculture of shrimp and crab with an area of 1, mu, and newly developed 1,3 high-standard shrimp-rice continuous cropping fish ponds. The main methods are:
1. Rely on the incentive mechanism to mobilize. In order to stimulate the enthusiasm of farmers to develop aquaculture, Hepu Town has formulated encouraging measures, and all farmers who are willing to develop aquaculture ponds can enjoy small loans guaranteed by Hepu Town at village level. At the same time, Hepu Town has unified contact with digging ponds, unified labor and dredging irrigation and drainage channels, unified investment in planting poles and sending electricity, and strived to improve the level of infrastructure and create a good production environment for farmers.
second, driven by science and technology. Hepu Town subscribed to newspapers and magazines about aquaculture technology for farmers, and hired aquaculture experts from the county fisheries bureau as technical guidance. Aquaculture Association has been set up in Hepu Town to provide farmers with timely information on improved seed breeding and market sales.
third, driven by typical large households. Hepu Town actively cultivates typical large-scale breeders, and through the statements of large-scale breeders who have achieved good benefits, the vast number of farmers feel the tangible economic benefits, and the enthusiasm of the masses to actively develop breeding bases is high. The newly dug 13 mu of continuous cropping area of shrimp and rice has all been completed and contracted out, and most of them have been planted with shrimp. Hepu Town is continuing to upgrade its infrastructure, increase the construction of road network, power grid and water network, and fully realize road access, water access and electricity access, and a benign pattern of water-carrying agriculture has taken shape.