Avian influenza sends economic signals, and poultry breeding needs to be scaled up

Introduction: poultry breeding is too scattered, the cost of epidemic prevention is high, and the effect is poor In the two outbreaks of avian influenza in Anhui Province, experts, officials and large poultry farmers all pay high attention to this phenomenon Experts said that promoting intensive management and large-scale breeding is a strong economic signal sent by the avian influenza epidemic to the poultry industry Professor Liu Zhiying, a decision-making advisory committee member of Anhui provincial government and chairman of the Department of economics of Hefei University of technology, believes that the avian influenza epidemic has put forward the economic thinking of "farm and large-scale poultry breeding" for the majority of poultry farmers He said that poultry breeding is an important income increasing industry in China's rural areas, but due to the national conditions, it is too scattered, mainly in large rural households, which not only increases the cost and difficulty of epidemic prevention, but also has a very low ability to resist the risk of the epidemic Once there is an epidemic, the owner's economic loss is very large He believes that "farm farming of poultry industry" will be one of the main directions of poultry industry development in the future The chief agronomist of Anhui Agricultural Committee also put forward the idea of large-scale poultry breeding He said that the total amount of poultry industry in Anhui is large, but the overall level is not high In 2003, the province released 570 million poultry, 260 million poultry on hand, and the output of poultry meat was 856000 tons, accounting for 24% of the total output of meat, and the output of eggs was 1198000 tons The output value of poultry breeding in Anhui Province is about 14 billion yuan, accounting for about 35% of the output value of animal husbandry, about 10% of the total agricultural output value, and about 4% of the GDP of Anhui Province, which plays an important role in the national economy In 2003, the net income of Anhui farmers' animal husbandry was 219.7 yuan, accounting for 10.3% of the farmers' net income, of which the poultry industry accounted for about 14% of the farmers' net income In Anhui Province, 33% of the chickens are raised separately, and half of the rest 67% are raised on a small scale The ground is simple and the density is large In some places, sewage flows across and feed is piled up in disorder In many places, chickens, ducks and geese are mixed seriously Waterfowl are the best hosts of avian influenza virus Ducks are more resistant to disease than chickens They may not die after carrying the virus and are very easy to become the source of infection These backward breeding methods should be improved as soon as possible Zhou Shiqi said that the state has set up "non regulated epidemic areas" in some parts of the country There are a whole set of measures to ensure the pure export of livestock and poultry in this area, prohibit the inflow of external livestock and poultry, strengthen epidemic prevention and quarantine, invest the limited funds in an advantageous way, and change the current situation of scattered breeding and difficult epidemic prevention Bird flu sends out economic signals, and poultry breeding needs to be scaled up Guangde County, Anhui Province, which suffered heavy losses this spring, has a deep understanding of the scale and standardization of poultry breeding After a painful experience, practical actions have been taken In the "opinions on further standardizing the production and management of animal husbandry" recently issued by the county, it is clearly mentioned that speeding up the construction of standardized breeding area for livestock and implementing standardized production is the fundamental strategy for standardizing the production and management of livestock and controlling the epidemic The construction of standardized community should be unified in breed breeding, epidemic prevention, design standard and land use