According to the fact that the town is vast and sparsely populated, since 1998, the town has intensified the development of edible fungi industry, and formed a production base of auricularia auricula centered on nine villages including Zhangzhai, Orchard, Liu and Shiqiao, with an annual output of 25 million bags and a total production of 5 million Jin of dried auricularia auricula. In addition, 300,000 square meters of production bases for Agaricus bisporus, Coprinus comatus and high-temperature straw mushrooms have been built in villages such as Huangdikou, Huayuan, Lixinzhuang and Jiazhuang, forming the first town of pollution-free characteristic agriculture for edible fungi production and processing in Shizhai.
Establish a facility vegetable base and form a white corridor on both sides of Fengsha Road. The town government invested10 million yuan to build 2000 high-standard solar greenhouses and large bow sheds. The greenhouse mainly produces fresh vegetables, eggplant, fenugreek and edible fungi, Agaricus bisporus, Coprinus comatus and cantaloupe. And build a high-standard 100 shed high-quality grape demonstration base in Jinzhuang Village. Products are exported to Shanghai, Beijing, Nanjing, Zhengzhou and other large and medium-sized cities, and have been rated as standardized pollution-free seasonal fresh vegetable production bases by provinces, cities and counties.
Production of specialty vegetables and construction of open-field vegetable production base: Due to the suitable climate and soil conditions and complete water conservancy facilities in this town, it is beneficial to the development period of specialty vegetables and open-field vegetables. In 2002, the town planted a new asparagus variety Grande 1 10,000 mu, and built a production and planting base. The town party committee and government have intensified efforts to grasp the leading industry of asparagus, and strive to plant 20,000 mu in 2004 to make the asparagus industry bigger and stronger and form a one-stop production and processing. The planting area of cauliflower in the open field is 28,000 mu, and the main products are early-maturing yellow onion, white garlic, wintering cauliflower, autumn cauliflower, radish, Japanese spinach and so on. The total annual output is 30,000 tons, forming a production mode integrating the cultivation of characteristic vegetables with the production, processing and sales of open-field vegetables.
Create characteristics, expand advantages, restrain disadvantages and improve benefits to develop the fruit industry in this town. In fruit production, our town vigorously develops famous products, with high-quality fruit trees covering an area of10.2 million mu, mainly including Red Fuji, Chinese Shoutao, Nectarine and table grapes. Due to the attention of leaders at all levels, fruit farmers diligently manage fruit yield and quality, ranking first in the county. Among them, Shiyuedi Red Fuji Demonstration Park was rated as a high-quality and high-yield pollution-free production demonstration park by Jiangsu Province, and the high-quality fruits in the park won gold medals at the National Agricultural Expo many times.
In order to increase farmers' income, the town party Committee and government have issued a series of documents and measures for many times, increased publicity and capital investment, and developed aquaculture. There are 68,000 live pigs, 6,543,800 Boer crossbred sheep, 300,000 laying hens, 200,000 broilers and 5,000 rabbits in the town, including 0/00 specially bred deer and 0/68 wild boar. In order to support the farmers in each village to do a good job in breeding, a piece of land has been specially set aside to build a breeding community to facilitate the management of epidemic prevention and disinfection. The town government took out special funds to help and actively coordinated credit cooperatives to support small loans. In terms of breed improvement, the slaughter amount of ternary hybrid pigs is over 85%, and that of Boer sheep is over 90%. The epidemic prevention density of pigs, cattle and sheep reached 100%, and the epidemic prevention target rate reached 100%. Due to the measures in place, the aquaculture industry in this town has developed from small-scale farming to dozens of large-scale professional farming in each village, and the number of large-scale farming households in the town has increased from 100 to more than 550, and the quantity and quality of farming have doubled several times. It brings new opportunities and development space to the secondary and tertiary industries, and aquaculture income accounts for 30% of the annual per capita income.