永和县位于黄土丘陵沟壑区,全县总面积一千二百四十平方公里,芝河纵贯全境,境内一华里以上的大小沟壑八百一十一条,梁峁起伏,地形破碎,水土流失严重。这里历史上有着广种薄收的习惯,产量低而不稳。全县耕地一十八万六千多亩,解放初期仅有水地四百多亩,坝地两千多亩,粮食总产量九百八十多万斤,亩产四、五十斤。解放后,在党的领导下永和人民遵照毛主席“要把黄河的事情办好”,“必须注意 Yonghe County, located in the loess hilly and gully region, the county a total area of ​​1,240 square kilometers, Chi River runs through the whole territory of the territory of more than one kilometer in size gully 81l, Liang ridges ups and downs, topography broken, Serious loss. History has a wide range of thin income habits, low output and unstable. The county arable land 186,000 mu, the early liberation of only 400 acres of water, dam more than 2,000 acres, the total output of more than 9.8 million kilograms of grain, mu four or five pounds. After the liberation, under the leadership of the party, the people of Yonghe adhered to Chairman Mao’s principle of “doing well the affairs of the Yellow River,” and "we must pay attention to