Small scale beef cattle development project loaned by the world bank is progressing smoothly

Introduction: China's small-scale beef cattle development project aims to use the rich straw resources in the project area, develop small-scale beef cattle breeding, improve the quality of beef, promote beef sales, so as to increase the income of farmers in the project area and reduce poverty The project area is located in Anhui, Henan, Hebei and Shanxi provinces, with a total planned investment of 1.536 billion yuan, including 93.5 million US dollars (equivalent to 788 million yuan) loaned by the world bank The project plans to develop 128156 beef cattle breeding households, 10332 beef cattle fattening households, 130 fattening farms, build or expand 16 live cattle trading markets and 5 beef cattle slaughtering and processing plants, and improve and perfect the beef cattle breeding and veterinary service system construction of four provinces, regions, counties, townships and villages Since the project came into force in June 2000, positive progress has been made As of December 31, 2001, the total investment of the project has been 720956700 yuan, accounting for 46.92% of the assessment target, of which 23473100 US dollars (194273100 yuan) has been paid by the world bank loan, accounting for 25.10% of the total loan amount of the world bank The total investment for beef cattle variety and feed improvement is 6.5366 million yuan, accounting for 39.09% of the evaluation target; the total investment for beef cattle production is 645.4942 million yuan, accounting for 56.96% of the evaluation target; the total investment for market development is 26.9798 million yuan, Accounting for 12.40% of the project evaluation target; the project investment for institutional strengthening was 41.9461 million yuan, accounting for 24.84% of the evaluation target The project has achieved positive results, mainly in the following five aspects: first, the beef cattle production in the project area has been greatly developed, and the farmers' income of the project has been significantly improved By the end of 2001, there were 71668 female calf farmers, accounting for 55.92% of the project evaluation target; 6047 fattening farmers, accounting for 58.52% of the project evaluation target; 95 fattening farms, accounting for 73.07% of the project evaluation target; 143626 cattle (including cows, calves and shelf cattle to be fattened) were purchased in the project It is estimated that the net income of the project households in 2001 has increased significantly compared with the previous year, by 15.13% 2 A number of processing plants and beef cattle trading markets have been built to facilitate the sales of beef cattle and the improvement of beef processing quality By the end of 2001, there were 7 pilot markets for beef cattle newly built and expanded, accounting for 43.75% of the evaluation target The construction of the project processing plant is progressing smoothly The civil engineering and equipment bidding of Anhui Yumei processing plant and Hebei Qinhuangdao gangjing processing plant have been completed and the project is in progress The civil engineering bidding of Henan Tanghe processing plant has been completed and the plant is preparing the documents of equipment bidding The equipment bidding documents of Henan Zhoukou processing plant and Shanxi Lunda processing plant are also being prepared 。 Third, improve the construction of support service system to provide a solid guarantee for the smooth progress of the project By the end of 2001, the project supported the construction of 3 provincial beef cattle service centers, 178 local, county and township level veterinary service centers (stations), 163 artificial insemination points, and imported several kinds of cattle and embryos With the construction of the project support service system, the proportion of beef cattle cold matching and crossbred improved cattle in the project area has been significantly improved 4 Attach importance to the absorption of women's participation in the project, and further expand the social benefits of the project The project office of Henan Province and the women's Federation jointly held the training course on the management of women beef cattle development project, organized experts and project management personnel to train the backbone of women's federations at all levels from the project area on cattle raising technology and project management On April 13, 2001, the women's Federation of Henan Province issued the notice on organizing women in the project area to participate in beef cattle breeding training to the women's Federation of the project area at the city and county levels The women's federations at the city, county and township levels actively cooperated with the local project offices to organize women in the project area to participate in the project training These trained women comrades actively participated in the project construction and made great contribution to the successful implementation of the project To contribute 5 A sound project organization and management system provides guarantee for strengthening project management At the beginning of the implementation of the project, project leading groups at the provincial, prefecture, county and township levels have been set up in each project province to strengthen the management and coordination of the project The leaders in charge of agriculture of the governments at all levels act as the team leaders, and representatives of planning, finance, animal husbandry, audit, environmental protection and women's Federation and other departments participate The leading group has a project management office, which is responsible for planning, finance, procurement, environmental protection, monitoring and evaluation, and training Under the leadership of the project leading group and in accordance with the specific requirements of the world bank project, and in combination with the actual situation of the region, PMOS at all levels formulate project implementation plans and carry out project implementation Each project province has also established project production and technical advisory groups at the provincial and county levels to provide technical and operational support and guidance The production and technical advisory group is composed of representatives from the animal husbandry bureau, farmers, fattening farms, live cattle markets and beef processing plants The central project office has prepared the "project financial management and accounting manual", which is distributed to each project county as the basic document of project financial management Each province has also established a relatively perfect financial management system, and according to the actual situation of the province, developed a series of management systems to train the project financial personnel.