Developing straw feed products will have great potential

Introduction: from the current and long-term situation, there are attractive business opportunities in the development of straw feed products, both in the international market and the domestic market First of all, straw feed has a huge business opportunity in the international market Because of the shortage of resources, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and some countries in Southeast Asia import a lot of forage every year According to relevant reports, Japan imports nearly one million tons of bulk forage from Australia every year However, due to the long way and high freight, Japan has repeatedly sought to import corn straw, straw, soybean straw and other forage from China It is reported that straw feed blocks were exhibited at Dalian Industrial Expo in 1996, but there has been no product available for export due to the failure of mechanical equipment Japanese and Korean businessmen have been asking, because there is no product available to undertake orders If through scientific processing, a large number of crop straws in China are developed into feed products and supplied to the international market in batches, it will be a new export project to earn foreign exchange Secondly, the domestic straw feed market has a broad prospect From the strategic point of view of sustainable development of animal husbandry, straw feed will be an important feed resource for further development of animal husbandry, and the demand will be increasing In addition, in recent years, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia and other places frequently suffer from snow disaster in winter and spring, which leads to a serious shortage of forage and a rise in price The Inner Mongolia leagues once organized special teams to adjust the grass seasoning in Linyi area, and also exchanged livestock for grass Since the north of Zhangjiakou, last year, the price per mu of corn straw was more than 200 yuan, and there was little left According to the information at the end of 2000, corn stalks were crushed and pressed into pieces of grass, which could be sold to 450-500 yuan per ton in Bameng and Ximeng of Inner Mongolia, and the price is still rising In other seasons of the normal year, due to the reduction and serious degradation of grassland area, the grass yield drops sharply, and the increase of livestock production, the forage grass is often in short supply, so the price of straw crushed into grass block is high and sold well With the development of animal husbandry, the demand of forage will increase year by year These increased forage will be finally solved by the development of straw feed In China, more than 600 million tons of crop straw are produced every year, of which corn straw has the largest area and yield, and the largest utilization potential However, at present, the amount of straw used as feed (silage, ammoniation, micro storage or direct feeding) is less than 10% of the total amount of straw Other uses, such as straw returning to the field, sideline processing and utilization, are less than 5% Most of them are wasted Other crop straws, such as wheat straw and straw, are used as feed with low utilization rate Therefore, making full use of resources, research and development of straw feed will be promising.