Abstract: It is of great significance for soil and water conservation on hilly slope land and for increasing peasants′ income to make full use of the interstitial land of Camellia oleifera forest to implement three-dimensional development of integrated planting and breeding. Using the 1 000 acres of Camellia oleifera forest on the hilly slope land of Hunan Applied Technology University as experimental base, a new ecological mode of integrated planting and breeding of ′Camellia oleifera-earthworm-poultry′ was explored and practiced. In the Camellia oleifera forest, the earthworms were bred using fermented manure produced by cattle and sheep, and the local chickens were reared using earthworms as feed resource. The technical parameters and actual effect of raising earthworms on interstitial land of Camellia oleifera forest on hilly slope land were introduced. Aiming to use hilly slope land resources to develop under-forest economy and to improve the resources utilization efficiency, this new ecological integrated planting and breeding mode may be helpful for solving the problems in Camellia oleifera planting on hilly slope land, such as high prophase input, low output and inefficiency of interstitial land use in forest. In addition, it is of great practical significance for the development of regional economy on hilly slope land.

Key words: hilly slope land, Camellia oleifera, integrated planting and breeding, earthworms, ecological mode