Qihe County is the only county along the Yellow River in Dezhou City. It is adjacent to the Yellow River and is covered with fertile fields. The cultivated land area is 1.26 million mu, and the total grain output is maintained at more than 1 million tons all the year round. It is the largest standardized production base of green food raw materials with an area of 800000 mu across the country. Qihe County is known as the"green granary of the Yellow River in northern Shandong" and the"hometown of wheat in China".
In this year, Qihe County will speed up the implementation of high-standard farmland upgrading engineering so as to ensure that the county to achieve high standard farmland coverage in 2023. In three years, Qihe County will build 500,000 mu of land with an output of more than 1,500 kilograms per mu and strive to increase 50 new agricultural leading enterprises above designated size in 5 years. As a traditional agricultural county, Qihe County will earnestly take on the political responsibility for food security and comprehensively do a good job in the food industry.(Source: Propaganda Department of Qihe County Committee)