Gaotai County has persistently grasped the development of beef cattle breeding as an important industry for the masses to get rich and increase income, actively cultivated and expanded professional breeding cooperatives and leading enterprises, and embarked on a "cattle" road to get rich.
Walking into the smooth farm of Mingshui Village in Nanhua Town, standardized cattle barns are neatly arranged, and the beef cattle in the pen are fat and strong. Wang Jun, the person in charge, said that he mainly breeds Simmental cattle, which have the advantages of high meat production rate and fast growth, and the breeding prospects are very impressive.
Wang Jun, the person in charge of the smooth farm: "I am mainly based on selling and breeding, this year there are more than two hundred cattle, as much as I can make up, a cow can probably sell more than 20,000 yuan." ”
Zhao Xueyan, the head of the Imuran Beef Cattle Breeding Farmers Professional Cooperative in The new village of Camel Town, is adding hay to the cattle. A few years ago, Zhao Xueyan and his wife have been raising cattle in their backyard, from the first few cows, to more than 70 now, the annual profit has increased year by year, and the couple has also lived a well-off life by raising cattle.
Zhao Xueyan, head of the Imuran Beef Cattle Breeding Farmers Professional Cooperative: "In the first half of the year, we probably produced 70 or 80 cattle, sold more than 1.7 million yuan, and recently entered more than 40 heads, fattening 18 months after out of the pen. ”
In recent years, Gaotai County has cultivated the cattle industry as the first industry of strong farmers and rich peasants, the leading industry for the masses to get rid of poverty and increase income, followed the development idea of "small groups and large-scale", exerted efforts from the aspect of promoting the prosperity of rural industries and improving the living environment, actively promoted the promotion of the whole village as a whole society, the self-built operation of farmers, and the model of thousands of households engaged in breeding, concentrated on the transformation and upgrading of the front, middle and back yards of 1091 farmers in 38 villages in the county, and built 24 professional villages for cow breeding and 72 professional cooperatives for beef cattle breeding. More than 5 beef cattle breeding farmers have grown to 1334 households, forming a characteristic breeding development model of "concentrated parks, joint construction of large households, and combination of courtyards", and the proportion of beef cattle breeding in the county has reached 65%. Up to now, the number of beef cattle raised in the county has reached 144,000 heads, the added value of the cattle industry has reached 236 million yuan, and the per capita net income of animal husbandry has reached 4837 yuan, accounting for 30% of the per capita disposable income of farmers, and the pillar role of the cattle industry in the development of animal husbandry and the increase of farmers' income is becoming increasingly obvious.
(Reporter: Wang Fengjiao)