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Major Revolution of Livestock Production-Ministry of Agriculture
is Actively Pushing Forward Modernized Livestock Raising in China
To transfer soon from extensive raising to intensive feeding in
livestock and poultry in order to realized modernization of animal
husbandry in China, improve quality of livestock products and ability
for market competition, insure safety of livestock products and
people’s health and to increase farmers’ income, the Ministry
of Agriculture of China had put forward “The Directions on Putting
Forward Modernization Method for Livestock and Poultry Raising”
It pointed out that in most rural areas in China, it is common for
people to stay together with livestock and poultry which are loosely
raised, leading to difficult management and high incidence of infectious
disease and constraining sustainable development of livestock production.
Transfer of raising method is a major revolution of animal production.
It also pointed out that at present and in the future, the directing
thoughts of pushing forward modernized raising methods of livestock
and poultry are: with overall, coordinated and sustainable concept
of scientific development as directions, strengthen further policy
direction and support, standardized production, epidemic control,
environmental protection, monitoring management and socialized service
to develop moderate scale operation, speed up large scale, specialized
and industrialized production, improving quality of livestock product
and its ability for market competition, etc.
Besides, in suburbs of large and medium cities and economic developed
areas, modern animal husbandry should be developed, and common commercial
raising of livestock and poultry should be moved into agricultural
zones. Standardized sub-zone and large-scale animal farms should
be developed in major livestock production and broad agricultural
zones. Housing and semi-housing method will be gradually extended
in pastoral zone and semi-pastoral and semi-agricultural zones,
combined with grassland ecological protection.
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