Hunan Province will systematically protect livestock and poultry resources

Introduction: as the basis and guarantee of precious natural resources and animal husbandry production and development, livestock and poultry resources will be systematically protected and developed in Hunan Province from this year Hunan Province has a long history of raising livestock and poultry There are 28 kinds of livestock and poultry which have been approved Among them, 12 breeds of Xiangxi black pig, Matou goat and Xianghuang chicken have been listed in the catalogue of China's livestock and poultry breeds They are all characterized by strong adaptability, rough feeding tolerance, high litter rate and good meat quality In the past 10 years, due to the difficulty of gene preservation, purification and rejuvenation of excellent local breeds, and the disorder of local breed improvement, the consanguinity and quantity of some local breeds of livestock and poultry in Hunan Province have decreased dramatically, and some of them have even reached endangered areas In order to fundamentally change this situation, Hunan Province will adopt the development type seed conservation model to protect and utilize the livestock and poultry variety resources, establish the province's livestock and poultry germplasm resources monitoring system and information network system, so as to ensure that the genetic characteristics of livestock and poultry varieties do not degenerate and gene does not drift; build pig germplasm testing station to test the quality of breeding pigs in the province; according to the province's "livestock and poultry varieties" List of resource protection, building a number of resource fields and conservation areas During the Tenth Five Year Plan period, 11 livestock and poultry resource farms and 11 seed conservation areas will be built and expanded (author:) share to feed Weibo share to: