China's Simmental cattle officially passed the variety examination

Introduction: Recently, the reporter learned from the China Simmental cattle variety approval meeting held in Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia: China's cattle industry has added new brands After more than 40 years of breeding, "China Simmental cattle" has officially passed the examination and approval of the cattle variety examination and Approval Committee of the national livestock and poultry variety resources examination and Approval Committee Simmental cattle have been introduced into China since the 1950s, and it was officially listed as a national key project of breeding in the early 1980s Researchers have absorbed Germplasms of Simmental cattle from many regions in Europe and the United States, established and improved the open core group breeding system, and established three groups of plains, mountains and grasslands in the semi farming and semi pastoral areas at the two foot of Taihang Mountain, the agricultural areas in Northern Anhui, Eastern Henan and Northern Jiangsu, Songliao plain and Horqin grassland At the examination and approval meeting, experts confirmed that Chinese Simmental cattle have obvious performance characteristics, stable heredity, good adaptability and wide distribution range, which can show good production performance under various ecological conditions in China and achieve the expected breeding goals At present, the breeding population of new Simmental cattle in China has reached 20000, there are 1 million breeding areas and 6 million crossbred improved cattle The number of improved yellow cattle ranks first among all improved breeds in China, basically forming a unified seed production and seed supply system in China, providing 250 special and first-class bulls and 1 million improved yellow cattle to the whole country every year, which has achieved great social benefits And economic benefits From 1981 to 2000, the net benefit increased by 19.4 billion yuan, which promoted the development of cattle industry in China (author:) share to feed Weibo share to: