Speeding up the protection of local livestock and poultry resources in Jiangxi Province

Introduction: up to now, 33 Local improved breeds of livestock and poultry have been identified as provincial key protected breeds of livestock and poultry in Jiangxi Province, and a number of local livestock and poultry breed resource farms and original species protection areas have been built At present, the province is preparing to publish the provincial catalogue of livestock and poultry species protection It is understood that these local improved breeds under key protection include pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks, geese, rabbits, bees and other livestock and poultry, among which Taihe black chicken and Guangfeng Sanhuang white eared chicken have been listed in the first batch of national key protected livestock and poultry varieties list recently China is rich in livestock and poultry resources, and many local livestock and poultry varieties left over from history have not been completely eliminated In the early 1980s, 596 breeds and groups of livestock and poultry were identified, accounting for about 11% of the world's total In recent 20 years, some new breeds and groups have been found continuously These local livestock and poultry varieties have good characteristics such as high reproductive capacity, early maturity, unique meat flavor and medicinal value, and are good materials for breeding new animal varieties with high yield and high quality At the same time, the long-term acclimation and the special ecological environment of the original place have also brought up the strong disease resistance and stress resistance of local varieties However, in some countries, due to continuous directional selection, the genetic variation within and between breeds is becoming narrower and narrower, which eventually leads to the exhaustion of livestock and poultry resources In the mid-1990s, China launched the livestock and poultry germplasm resources protection project, supported the construction of a number of protected seed farms, and established the national livestock and poultry variety gene bank in Beijing and Nanjing Recently, the Ministry of agriculture officially released the list of the first 78 national key protected breeds of livestock and poultry, and will work out the conservation plans for resource farms and protected areas Zeng Zhiming, deputy director of Jiangxi Provincial Bureau of animal husbandry and veterinary medicine, said that as a province with a large variety of livestock and poultry resources, Jiangxi has a number of rare local livestock and poultry varieties Recently, Taihe black chicken, which has been listed in the national key livestock and poultry species protection list, has a unique medicinal diet function; Guangfeng Sanhuang white eared chicken has a good prospect for meat and egg It is reported that Jiangxi Province will formulate corresponding protection plans to ensure that each protected breed of livestock and poultry at or above the provincial level has a resource farm, and define a certain range of original species protection area at the origin; for species that have been included in the national protection, it will formulate short-term and medium-term objectives, clearly define the protection methods, conservation scale, breeding objectives and policy measures In addition, the province will establish a special livestock and poultry variety resource management committee to further strengthen resource management.