New initiative of "family ranch" in Guangyuan agricultural district, Sichuan Province

Introduction: Recently, the reporter saw a new initiative of "family ranch" in Guangyuan agricultural district in northern Sichuan Bai Yaoxian, director of the Municipal Bureau of animal husbandry and food, said: "setting up grass as a business and setting up family ranch is a revolution to promote the transformation of family livestock industry from sideline industry to leading industry in the agricultural area, and family ranch is becoming a major emerging industry in Guangyuan agricultural area." -- family ranch is the direction of family animal husbandry in rural areas In recent 20 years, the animal husbandry in rural areas of Guangyuan City, Sichuan Province has continued to grow, but the efficiency of grain consuming family animal husbandry, which is mainly pig raising, is low, which to some extent restricts the development of animal husbandry in rural areas Since the 1980s, Cangxi County has carried out scientific rabbit breeding There are more than 5000 family rabbit farms with annual income of 5000-10000 yuan in the county The total annual income of rabbit industry is 250 million yuan, which has lifted nearly 50000 farmers out of poverty Rabbit breeding has become a pillar industry in many villages and townships in Cangxi County Guangyuan City leaders are inspired by Cangxi County's development of family rabbit farm, and learn from the experience of "family ranch" in pastoral areas at home and abroad, and comprehensively implement the trial operation of family ranch by planting grass and raising livestock in rural areas For this reason, Guangyuan City regards planting grass to raise livestock and set up family ranch as the main direction of animal husbandry development, changes the traditional concept of "planting grass without doing business", and sets up high standard family ranch supporting grass and livestock At present, 280000 mu of high-quality forage is planted in the agricultural areas of the city, and nearly 80000 family pastures are set up, accounting for 1 / 8 of the whole city's family livestock farmers Family ranch has become a new industry in the economic development of the city's agricultural areas -- establish grass as a business and plant grass to raise livestock in line with modern animal husbandry As soon as the family ranch changes the old grain consuming family farming mode, it implements the new mode of setting grass as industry and planting grass to raise livestock The farming area regards grass as crops It has successively introduced excellent grass species from the United States, New Zealand, the Netherlands and other countries It has successively planted nearly 300000 mu of high-quality grass, with a total annual yield of 1.5 million tons Guangyuan also established four service systems, namely, good propagation, epidemic prevention, technology and market The city has established a city, county and township breeding system, successively introduced improved breeds from Canada, the United States and China's Zhejiang Province and other places, making the quality rate of domestic ranch nearly 100% At the same time, relying on Sichuan Grassland Research Institute (station), Southwest Agricultural College, Provincial Academy of Animal Sciences and other institutions to establish municipal and county technical training network, the whole process of technical training for family ranchers in grass planting, breeding, introduction, etc The city has established more than 500 marketing associations for rabbit hair, pigs, small poultry, cattle and sheep, more than 30 specialized markets for livestock products have been set up in counties and townships, and more than 20000 salesmen have been engaged in the circulation of livestock products, making livestock products continuously sold outside the province -- a new way to improve the efficiency of domestic animal husbandry according to the introduction of Guangyuan animal husbandry and Food Bureau, the income per unit area of the labor force in the family ranch has been doubled compared with the traditional efficiency of domestic animal husbandry in the past Planting high-quality forage, the income per mu can reach 1000-1200 yuan, plus supporting livestock, the economic benefit per mu can reach more than 5000 yuan According to the investigation of Yuanba District, it is of high benefit to plant grass and raise livestock The protein content of high-quality alfalfa and chicory is about 22%, more than 2.5 times of that of corn and wheat, which can be directly used as livestock feed One mu of Alfalfa produces 5000 kg of fresh grass, and its dry matter is more than 1000 kg, 3-4 times of that of wheat If it is used to feed livestock and poultry, its income is planting Five to six times that of wheat (author:) share to feed Weibo share to: