Business

Editor: Zoe Zhang
29 Oct 2008 08:04:41 GMT

The development of featured agricultural industry in Dongan County has contributed to local agricultural growth and farmer’s income.

Dongan County has attached great importance to the development of featured agricultural industry, such as ginkgo, citrus, flowers, and Dongan chicken in recent years. From January to September this year, the total income of farmers has increased by 132 million Yuan.

In recent years, Dongan County opened nearly 20 training sessions free of charge on featured agricultural industry for 150,000 farmers. About 4,000 farmers have been granted the qualification certificates. More than 20 professional co-operation organizations, such as the Dongan Chicken organization have been set up to provide guidance in scale operation and other related aspects for farmers. The trade and industry department in Dongan County has successfully helped farmers and agriculture-related enterprises register more than 30 trademarks, be granted one provincial famous trademark, 7 municipally well-known trademarks and develop more than 600 agents of various agricultural products. At present, about 127 villages of featured agricultural industry have been set up, making up large scale bases of featured agricultural industry in Dongan.

From: english.rednet.com