National "Ninth Five Year Plan" fine wool sheep breeding project passed the acceptance (9.6)

OA show ('918 '); the national "Ninth Five Year Plan" scientific and technological breakthrough plan - "breeding and improvement of hornless Merino fine wool sheep" project undertaken by Fuxin Bureau of agriculture and animal husbandry, Liaoning Province, has recently passed the on-site acceptance by the expert group of the Ministry of agriculture It is understood that this project is the only subject of fine wool sheep cultivation during the Ninth Five Year Plan period in China Its main task is to select and improve the hornless Merino fine wool sheep, cultivate the hornless Merino fine wool sheep with large physique, long hair, high wool production, more meat production, high net wool rate and good wool quality, replace the imported Australian Merino ram, and solve the problem of improving the quality of fine wool sheep breeding in China Demand According to the requirements of the Ministry of science and technology of the people's Republic of China for the acceptance of the Ninth Five Year Plan of national science and technology, an expert group organized by the animal husbandry and Veterinary Bureau of the Ministry of agriculture inspected 3250 sheep of all kinds in the core group of hornless Merino sheep in Guanshan breeding farm of Fuxin and haoluku breeding farm of Chifeng City of Inner Mongolia, randomly selected 10% adult ewes, 317 ewes and 10 rams of all kinds The field identification and production performance test were carried out, and the breeding data, audio-visual data and technical files of the two fields were reviewed The expert group agreed that all indicators have completed or exceeded the task of "breeding and improvement of hornless Merino fine wool sheep" issued by the state It is reported that since 1986, Fuxin City, Liaoning Province has started to use the strong wool Australian Merino hornless male sheep and the female sheep such as combek and bond, which are close to the production level of Australian Merino sheep, to carry out progressive crossbreeding and cultivate the hornless Merino fine wool sheep In 1991, the project was listed in the "Eighth Five Year Plan" under the name of "breeding of hornless Merino sheep" and succeeded at the end of 1995 The following year, it was listed in the "Ninth Five Year Plan" under the name of "breeding and improvement of hornless Merino sheep" So far, the project team has promoted 7125 hornless Merino rams to three northeast provinces and seven provinces including Inner Mongolia, Jiangsu, Yunnan, etc., saving more than 10 million US dollars for the country, and using hornless Merino sheep to improve 2 million fine wool sheep According to the investigation results of Liaoning Animal Husbandry Research Institute, the average net benefit of each improved first and second generation sheep can be increased by 93 Yuan due to the increase of body weight and net gross output Source: China feed industry information network vn9, September 3, 2000, Xinhua News Agency (author:)