Animal husbandry has become a new highlight of economic development in Gansu Province

Introduction: in 2001, the animal husbandry industry in Gansu Province increased its structural adjustment, focused on promoting the quality of large amount of grass and livestock products, the scale of featured grass and livestock products, and the regionalization of superior grass and livestock products, promoting the development of grass industry and herbivores, and accelerating the industrialization process of animal husbandry Last year, the province's total output value of animal husbandry reached 7.6 billion yuan, an increase of 6% Animal husbandry accounted for 440 yuan of the per capita net income of farmers, an increase of 5% over the previous year The steady growth of the total amount of animal husbandry and the obvious improvement of the production efficiency indicate that the animal husbandry of our province has entered the stage of rapid development and become a new bright spot of the rural economic development of our province Since last year, the province has taken the development of grass industry as a breakthrough in the structural adjustment of animal husbandry, and increased the development of grass industry Last year, 5.8 million mu of artificial grass was planted in the province, an increase of 11.6% year on year, making the area of artificial grass in the province reach 13.08 million mu, and the total amount of forage grass further increased In the aspect of deep processing of grass products, we encourage all regions to build grass product processing bases Last year, the processing capacity of grass products increased by 200000 tons and the production capacity of grass products increased by 50000 tons Yumen, Jiuquan, Gaotai and other places to produce grass powder, grass block and other products, high quality and low price, has entered Shanghai, Guangdong and other coastal markets The development of grassland industry and the innovation of grassland management mechanism have aroused the enthusiasm of the masses in the pastoral area to contract and construct grassland In 2001, the whole province completed 3.2 million mu of grassland household contract, and the contracted area of natural grassland reached 95.14 million mu, accounting for 80% of the available grassland area in 10 animal husbandry counties With the rapid development of the grass industry and market demand, our province adjusted the structure of the breeding industry in time, and increased the feeding scale of cattle, sheep and other herbivores Last year, 865000 beef cattle were sold in the whole province, an increase of 9.8% year on year, 36000 cows were kept in the stock, an increase of 16% year on year, of which Zhangye, Jiuquan and other places saw more than 40% increase In the whole year, 5.2 million mutton sheep were put on the market, up 10.6% year on year, and more than 30% of them were raised in silver, gold tower and other places Part of beef and mutton have entered the international market and exported to the Middle East, which provides a greater market space for the development of animal husbandry in our province At the same time, around the development of animal husbandry industry, local governments have vigorously developed large-scale breeding and fostered and supported leading enterprises Up to now, the province has developed 3200 large-scale farms with 520000 large-scale farmers, accounting for 10% of the total farmers in the province There are more than 2000 breeding communities for all kinds of livestock and poultry, forming a regional pattern of "many villages, one product, several townships and one industry" The organization of animal husbandry industrialization has developed to more than 200, driving more than 200000 households These professional large households, breeding communities and leading enterprises gradually grow up in the field of breeding, processing and circulation, which have become a huge driving force for the industrialization of animal husbandry in our province.