Qinghai animal husbandry shares the new pattern of "breeding in the West and breeding in the East"

Introduction: Qinghai Province, one of the five pastoral areas in China, encourages and guides farmers in agricultural areas to sell cattle and sheep from pastoral areas for home fattening and breeding while speeding up the reform of production and operation of high-altitude grassland At present, the development of animal husbandry in the province has formed a new pattern of "breeding in the West and East" with complementary advantages and benefit sharing "Breeding in the West and breeding in the East" is a kind of production mode that Qinghai Province devotes itself to develop, according to its own advantages of combining agriculture and animal husbandry, in order to improve the efficiency of animal husbandry through the off-season transportation of cattle and sheep for fattening The specific method is to transport a large number of cattle and sheep to the eastern agricultural area with better natural conditions and rich forage resources for fattening in shed feeding circle every year in winter and spring when the livestock is in poor condition, in peak season or at low price, and then sell them collectively when the market turns prosperous This kind of animal husbandry management mode, which focuses on market changes and anti season fattening sales, has the advantages of small risk, flexible form, short cycle and high efficiency, and is popular with farmers and herdsmen Wang Hai, director of the grassland Department of the animal husbandry department of Qinghai Province, said that up to now, more than 80% of the herdsmen in the pastoral areas of six prefectures in Qinghai have settled down for grazing, and 85% of the available grasslands in the province have also been contracted to households The vast majority of grassland herdsmen have got rid of the nomadic life of "living by water and grass" The animal husbandry production of the whole province is changing from the traditional extensive type and the number of heads to the benefit type The majority of herdsmen no longer regard the number of cattle and sheep as their wealth, but turn their attention to scientific breeding and improving the benefit However, with the rapid development of grassland and animal husbandry, there are also a series of problems that are not conducive to the development of animal husbandry, such as the degradation of grassland caused by overgrazing in the pastoral area of Qinghai Therefore, Qinghai province regards "breeding in the West and in the East" as the key project of complementary advantages and benefit sharing between livestock resources and forage resources in the pastoral area By using the opportunity of large-scale project of returning farmland to forest and grassland in the agricultural area, the farmers are encouraged and guided to actively participate in the cattle and Sheep anti season trafficking and fattening, so as to reduce the pressure on the grassland in the pastoral area on the basis of improving the benefit of returning farmland to grass and increasing the income Hetan village, located in the countryside of limestone kiln in Ping'an County, Huangshui Valley, is a demonstration site for cattle and sheep breeding in the West and in the East Yeting mountain, the village branch, told reporters that the project of "breeding cattle and sheep in the West and East" based on the mode of "small group, large-scale, centralized construction and household feeding" has brought good news to the villagers Every autumn and winter, the villagers buy the weak cattle and sheep from the pastoral area at a low price, and go out after three or four months of fattening in the warm shed According to the current breeding scale, 75 demonstration households in the village can sell more than 40000 fattening sheep every year, with a profit of more than 4 million yuan Han Jinhui, a villager, said that there were four people in his family Before, he only knew how to work on the land and how to live a tight life "I now have more than 240 fattening sheep, each of which costs 240 yuan After fattening, I can only sell more than 350 yuan According to this scale, I can fatten twice a year and earn a lot of money." Ma sonan, director of the county's Animal Husbandry Bureau, said that more and more farmers are engaged in cattle and sheep trafficking and fattening in the county "Breeding in the West and breeding in the East" has become the main channel for farmers to increase their income The rise of cattle and sheep fattening and breeding also led to the rapid development of transportation, feed and other related industries in the county, and injected new vitality into the development of local economy Shenzhongyu, director of Animal Husbandry Department of Qinghai Province, told reporters that "breeding in the West and breeding in the East" laid a solid foundation for accelerating the industrial restructuring of agricultural and pastoral areas, increasing the income of farmers and herdsmen, and promoting the development of ecological agriculture and animal husbandry on the plateau Last year, nearly 20000 farmers in 10 agricultural districts and counties in the province became breeding farmers in the scale of cattle and sheep trafficking and fattening The total scale of trafficking and fattening was nearly 1.24 million, with a net income of more than 90 million yuan and an input-output ratio of 1:18.