洞庭湖平原素称“鱼米之乡”,其行政区域包括南县、安乡两县全境及岳阳、汩罗、湘阴、华容、沅江、益阳、澧县、常德、汉寿等县的一部分,总面积约1.52万平方公里,内有稻田660万亩.它是湖南省粮、棉、丝、麻、糖及水产的重要产地,也是我国农牧渔业商品生产基地之一.为了加速湖区基地的开发 Dongting Lake plain known as “Yumizhixiang”, and its administrative regions, including Nanxian, Anxiang counties throughout the territory and Yueyang, Miluo, Xiangyin, Huarong, Yuanjiang, Yiyang, Pixian, Changde, Hanshou counties and other parts of the total It covers an area of ​​15,200 square kilometers and contains 6,600,000 hectares of paddy field, which is an important producing area of ​​grain, cotton, silk, hemp, sugar and aquatic products in Hunan Province and one of the commodity production bases of agriculture, animal husbandry and fishery in our country.