The Records of Shixing County compiled during the Qing Dynasty recorded that the leaf tobacco produced in Shixing at that time was already very famous. It can be seen that Shixing has been planting yellow tobacco for 100 years. Because Mashi is covered with red sandy soil, it is an ideal place for the growth of yellow smoke. The yellow smoke produced by Mashi is golden in color, mellow and flammable, so most of the yellow smoke from Mashi is used for export. According to the county records of the Republic of China, Shixing transports more than 65,438+0,000 tons of yellow smoke to Foshan and other places for sale every year. Since the beginning of this century, Mashi Town has carefully built a professional town of yellow tobacco, built tobacco seedling workshops in Geping Village and Huangtian Village respectively, and carried out intensive, professional, mechanized and automatic management of yellow tobacco production, which provided a strong guarantee for effectively improving the quality and quantity of yellow tobacco production. According to the statistics of 20 12 and 12, the planting area of yellow tobacco in Mashi is 20,300 mu, and the output of yellow tobacco is 57,305 tons, with a total output value of more than 63 million yuan. Successfully established as "the first town of Jinye in Guangdong".