道县是湖南南部一个半山半丘陵地区。从一九六五年开始试种秋棉花,到一九七三年发展到1200多亩,单产不断提高,最高的达150余斤。大坪铺棉花试验站一九七二年试种0.5亩,折合早稻亩产984斤,秋棉亩产145斤,油菜籽亩产204斤。一九七三年该站在早稻收割后种上了秋棉18.6亩,平均早稻亩产594斤,秋棉花109.7斤,油菜籽120斤。其中有0.6亩, Road County is a semi-hilly area in southern Hunan. From 1965 onwards, autumn cotton was planted and by the year of 1973 it had grown to more than 1,200 mu. Yields continued to rise, reaching a maximum of 150 kg. Daping shop cotton test station in 1972 planted 0.5 acres, equivalent to 984 pounds per mu in early rice, autumn cotton yield 145 pounds, rapeseed yield 204 kg. In 1973, the station planted 18.6 mu of autumn cotton after the harvest of early rice, with an average of 594 kg of early rice per mu, 109.7 kg of autumn cotton and 120 kg of rapeseed. Of which 0.6 acres,