Where is a nice terrace in Gaomingkeng?

Gaoming Kengmei Terrace is located in Xiancun Street, Lianhua Town, Xiang Ying Ecological Park.

Terrace is a strip terrace or wavy cross-section field built along contour lines on hilly slopes. It is an effective measure to control soil erosion in sloping farmland, and has remarkable effects of storing water and soil and increasing production. Terrace has good ventilation and light transmission conditions, which is beneficial to crop growth and nutrient accumulation.

According to the different slopes of fields, there are horizontal terraces, inclined terraces and compound terraces. The width of terraced fields depends on the ground slope, soil thickness, farming methods, labor force and economic conditions, and is planned in a unified way with irrigation and drainage systems and traffic roads.

When building terraces, we should protect the topsoil. After terraced fields are completed, agricultural farming measures such as deep ploughing, increasing application of organic fertilizer and planting suitable pioneer crops should be taken to accelerate soil maturation and improve soil fertility.

history

Terraces began to exist in China as early as the Qin and Han Dynasties. Planting rice requires a large area of ponds, but the southeastern provinces of China are hilly and lack plain terrain suitable for planting rice. In order to solve the food problem, farmers who immigrated here built terraces and used dams to store water, which made it possible to grow rice in a large area in hilly areas and solved the local food problem.

However, planting terraced fields consumes much more manpower than plain, and the yield is not superior, and the vegetation in hilly areas is seriously damaged, so this farming method is gradually eliminated, and now it is only a tourist attraction.