The Green Agriculture----The Rising Great Expectation 升腾着无限的希望--绿色农业　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　home

The territory of Heihe lies on one of the only existing three black earth belts------Northeast China black earth belt. The location stays far away from industrial cities, full of fresh air, free of pollution and kept in a perfect ecological environment, presenting itself as a rare remote fairyland. The fertile land here has been cultivated for only a hundred years or so, thus free from any residue of pesticides and chemical fertilizers. The green hills, clear waters, blue sky, black earth and white snow present unique natural ecology for developing green and organic food crops and cultivating produces which grow in the optimum cultivation belt. 　　In the vast and dense woods in the territory of Heihe there grow some 350 species of medicinal herbs such as membranous milk vetch, Chinese magnoliavine, ginseng, dangshen, and many others with a total annual gain of 150 kilos. More than 100 sorts of wild vegetables such as bracken and fern grow in the hills with an annual gain of 30 thousand tons. More than 50 sorts of wild fruit seeds such as pine seeds, hill walnuts, and hazelnuts are available with an annual output of 10 thousand tons. More than 60 sorts of wild edible funguses such as auricularia, hedgehog hydnum and mushroom grow and produce an annual gain of 7 thousand tons. More than 20 sorts of fruits for making wine such as hill grapes, a kind of persimmon, yageda fruit, with an annual gain of 3 thousand tons. More than 50 sorts of honey-source plants scattered over an area of 2 million mu, enough for keeping 260 thousand beehives. The nature of the territory offers also birch sap, a "natural beer" and "forest juice" named by Europeans. The territory is a habitat of 51 species of wild animals such as sables, black bears, elks, and wild boars and a habitat of 206 species of wild birds such as white storks, gold vultures, swans and pheasants. Plenty of mountainous produces are a stable raw material source for green food processing industry. 　　The territory contains 960 thousand mu of natural waters, where there grow dog salmons, sturgeons, carps, and eight delicacy fishes (the local names are Auhua, bream, anchovy, Yaluo, Zheluo, Faluo, Tongluo and Huluo), and where there is a great potential to cultivate fishes, and cold water fishes in particular. " Adhering to Greens and Going on a featured way" has become the breakthrough point for Heihe to develop quality and efficacy agriculture. At the present time 10 sorts of grade A foodstuffs available such as mineral water, edible fungus-auricularia, wheat, soybeans, peas, mineral water grains and potatoes. In the year of 2002, 17 grade A green foodstuffs and 2 grade AA green foodstuffs such as rice, beef, milk powder, birch juice, bean milk products, mineral water fish, sliced green kidney beans, maple tea, tussah products and mountainous wild vegetables will be available on markets. At present, City Heihe is in full swing to set up the production bases of green food raw materials, to develop leading enterprises processing mountainous products, and to open markets for green foods with the aim to make Heihe into a national "Green Food Land".