Double benefits of animal husbandry and environmental protection in Longhua County, Hebei Province

Introduction: in Longhua County, Hebei Province, the scene of cattle and sheep climbing the hillside has become a thing of the past, now it is a new "family ranch" This is a change brought by Longhua County in order to protect the ecological environment of grassland, improve the efficiency of animal husbandry, and vigorously develop the use of straw feed for livestock and poultry breeding Longhua County has 4.13 million mu of natural grassland, and animal husbandry is a traditional industry in rural areas But in the past few years, with the rapid development of animal husbandry, especially the herbivorous livestock and poultry, the long-term overgrazing of grassland has led to the decrease of livestock capacity year by year, and the contradiction between forest, grass, livestock and poultry has become increasingly prominent In order to effectively protect grassland resources, Longhua County Government actively guided farmers to change the way of feeding livestock and poultry 425 silage ammoniation ponds have been built successively in the county With the method of setting up demonstration households and typical promotion, a large-scale central demonstration farm with an annual output of 5000 beef cattle has been built in the State Forestry and animal products company in shatuozi village, tangtougou Town, a demonstration farm with an annual output of 200 beef cattle has been built in caohailiang family, a big cattle farmer in zhangsanying Town, and a forest farm in Nanyang County has been built Beef cattle breeding demonstration farm with a cattle scale of 500 In addition, the model villages and households for raising sheep in houses will be developed actively by adopting the method of contracted separate breeding At the same time, actively adjust the structure of animal husbandry, develop improved breeds of livestock and poultry, improve 415 reproducible cows, complete 500 cattle embryo transfer, build a breeding base for Small Tail Han sheep, carry out Boer goat improvement, and further drive the change of feeding mode Up to now, the total number of cattle and sheep raised in the county has reached 250000 and 592400, which is significantly higher than before (author:) share to feed Weibo share to: