"Distribute sheep seedlings to raise them and recycle them, without me having to pay a penny." Raising 30 sheep in half a year, each can only earn 200 yuan, which is much easier than making money before", Liang Chuncao, a villager in Yongji Village, Du'an Yao Autonomous County, Guangxi Province, fed the sheep early in the morning, and shared with reporters the changes that the meat and sheep industry has brought to his life.
In Du'an, more than 31,000 farmers like Liang Chuncao have been lifted out of poverty due to the cattle and sheep industry, and driven by the Guangxi Du'an High-quality Beef and Sheep National Modern Agricultural Industrial Park, the level of Meat and Sheep breeding in Du'an has increased rapidly, the scale of breeding has been expanding, and farmers have gone from poverty alleviation to prosperity, have direction and technology, and embark on the "sheep" light road of rural revitalization.
Du'an County Ao Han sheep industry core demonstration area
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Du'an is located in the Dashi Mountains and has long maintained the habit of raising cattle and sheep. As early as the Republic of China period, there are already historical records of raising "geographical indication" breeds of Duan goats. The construction of Guangxi Du'an High-quality Beef and Sheep National Modern Agricultural Industrial Park has provided a strong impetus for the Du'an meat and sheep industry to accelerate its progress in the direction of intensification, scale and modernization.
Industrial park has become the engine of Du'an to promote the high-quality development of the meat and sheep industry, the rapid development of the industry can not be separated from the promotion of the industrial park, before the creation of the industrial park, the county's sheep breeding volume of 518,000, as of now has grown to 824,000, an increase of up to 60%.
Policy is the vane of industrial development. In recent years, Duan has vigorously developed the cattle and sheep industry, as early as 2017, the innovative development model, breakthrough put forward the "loan sheep to sheep" development model, the average household 50,000 yuan of microcredit income into sheep loans to poor households to raise. The industrial park raises ewes, and the fattening work is completed by the farmers, and the industrial scale is rapidly expanded through various models such as company breeding, cooperative breeding, and farmer self-rearing. Statistics in 2016 show that before the introduction of the loan sheep repayment policy, the number of sheep in the county was 458,000, and as of now, the number of sheep in the county has reached 824,000, an increase of nearly 80%; the number of sheep in the county has increased from 172,000 in 2016 to 286,000 in 2020.
It takes about half a year for the lambs to grow out of the pen
The success of the loan-to-sheep model lies in the "teaching people to fish", which fully mobilizes the enthusiasm of farmers. Different from the previous situation where farmers directly get money and spend it quickly, farmers who lend lambs have means of production, earn income through breeding labor, become part of the industrial park, and develop on a rolling basis through the process of "lending lambs, repaying big sheep, and re-lending lambs", along with the prosperity of the meat and sheep industry on the road to prosperity.
Australian sheep feed on forage
Precise policy support and sufficient financial support have opened up a fast lane for the development of The Du'an meat and sheep industry. It is understood that the industrial park vigorously integrates the higher-level financial support for agriculture funds, and leverages financial and social capital to participate in the development of the "loan cattle (sheep) and cattle (sheep)" industrial development. At the same time, adhere to the four-in-one of "government, enterprises, insurance, and farmers", formulate and introduce policies and measures to alleviate poverty with awards in lieu of compensation, agricultural insurance, main body cultivation, and production and marketing docking industries, guide leading enterprises to expand production, and standardize the development of farmers' professional cooperatives. A total of 580 million yuan of special financial poverty alleviation funds and integrated financial agriculture-related funds have been raised and arranged, 624 million yuan of microcredit for poverty alleviation has been issued, and 100 million yuan of inclusive financial loans for human insurance property insurance and property insurance have been leveraged through financial guarantees, 160 million yuan of loans from financial institutions and 2.88 billion yuan of social capital financing.
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The flock needs a leader, and the industrial development also needs a leading enterprise. The industrial park introduced Guangxi Aodu Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Aodu Agriculture and Animal Husbandry") as the main enterprise of the core demonstration area of high-quality meat and sheep in the industrial park, as of now, Aodu Agriculture and Animal Husbandry has laid out 5 ewe breeding farms above 10,000 heads in Du'an, and the ewe stock is close to 300,000. Through the development model of "industrial park support, enterprise leadership, and farmers raising on behalf of farmers", a breeding pattern of "counties have bases, townships have sheep farms, villages have sheep houses, and households have sheep breeding". At present, 13 townships in Du'an have built fattening bases and 247 cooperatives, benefiting 88,600 people from 22,300 households.
Schematic map of the distribution of the breeding base of the Australian han sheep
According to Huang Gangjun, chairman of Aodu Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, when the lamb grows to 40-50 pounds, it is issued to farmers, and after 5-6 months of feeding and growing to 100-120 pounds of weight, it is bought back by the company, the farmer earns the profit of fattening, the company earns the profit of slaughter and sales, and the two sides cooperate and win-win by expanding the scale of the industry. Farmers can also choose to raise on behalf of the company, the company released seedlings in the later stage of recycling, pay farmers 200 yuan / only labor remuneration, Liang Chuncao chose this. In short, the cooperation model is diverse and flexible, which can meet the different needs of farmers.
Huang Gangjun, chairman of Aodu Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
If the company is the leader of the farmers, the industrial park is the solid backing for the development of the company, providing seed sources, talents, technology and other aspects of support for the development of the industry. Industrial development is inseparable from scientific and technological support, according to reports, the industrial park actively cooperate with the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the Autonomous Region Department of Agriculture and other scientific research institutes, strengthen scientific and technological research and development and professional talent exchanges, the introduction of advanced concepts and management methods and advanced technologies such as "microbial +", improve the industrial scientific and technological content; and the College of Animal Science and Technology of Guangxi University to carry out the construction of meat and sheep industry science and technology cooperation base project, strengthen technical exchanges, and provide scientific and technological support for the creation of industrial parks in the aspects of good seed introduction, hybrid breeding, slaughtering and processing, and disease prevention and control.
Sheep movement
For farmers, farming and disease prevention and control technologies are relatively weak. The industrial park continues to strengthen technical services, relying on the Guangxi beef and sheep industry innovation team and the industrial poverty alleviation expert service group, the establishment of a county-level industrial poverty alleviation expert service group, the selection of 737 poor household industrial development instructors to carry out technical services, a total of 144 industrial poverty alleviation training courses, training 16,900 poor people. "Sheep rarely get sick, and occasionally problems are treated by professional veterinarians," Liang Chuncao said, adding that the professional technical service team made up for the technical shortcomings of farmers and eliminated worries.
The industrial park actively docks with its own advantages, actively docks land resources to build cold chain warehousing and logistics centers, slaughtering processing plants and feed factories, vigorously promotes the integrated development of the first, second and third industries, and realizes the development of the whole industrial chain of meat and sheep. At the same time, using the central fixed point help, east-west collaboration and other platforms, actively docking consumption support, relying on cold chain warehousing and logistics to connect the consumer market in developed areas such as Beijing and Shenzhen, opening more than 2,000 cattle and sheep industry operation shops, and 2 self-operated enterprises that have passed export certification.
Australian cold sheep preservation quick-frozen warehouse
The healthy development of the industry is also inseparable from effective supervision, the industrial park appoints financial personnel to enter the enterprise, represents the farmers to participate in the operation supervision, supervises the enterprise to share the guarantee to the farmers every year, realizes the sharing of benefits between the households and enterprises, and the average annual income of the farmers is more than 1500 yuan per year.
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Industrial development needs output, but also needs high quality, Du'an meat and sheep industry has achieved breakthrough results. The first is to solve the problem of "card neck" of the seed source, the main breed raised in the industrial park is "Australian Cold Sheep", independent research and development by the Australian white (father) × small tail cold sheep (mother) hybridization, to solve the breed source "card neck problem".
The second is to solve the common problem of low production capacity and slow output growth. The Ao Han sheep have excellent reproductive properties, 2-3 lambs per litter, two litters per year can provide 4-6 lambs, and the population is expanding at several times the rate. In the breeding mode, the Ewes of the Australian Cold Sheep are fed forage, and the fattening sheep is fed with feed, and the farmer only needs to feed twice a day. The model of "feed feeding + captivity" like pig raising further reduces the technical threshold, which is easy for farmers to get started and easy to copy, which is also an important reason for the rapid increase in the scale of meat and sheep breeding in the industrial park. In addition, the reporter learned that the daily weight of the Australian cold sheep can reach 400g, which has advantages compared with other varieties, and the rapid release of the bar will further enhance the income of farmers.
High quality snowflake and sheep brand lamb
High-quality lamb is also an indispensable basic element to build a brand and improve the quality of the industry. Yang Guo, a researcher at the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that the Australian cold lamb has almost no smell, in addition to genetic factors, nutritional regulation is an important technical means. It is understood that the Yangguo team has explored the technology of phased feeding, and at the same time adjusted the nutritional standards of Australian cold sheep through the technical means of precise regulation of large materials + small materials. The recipes of the Ao Han sheep include sweet corn, mulberry leaves and Hengxian jasmine, and finally create a non-fat lamb from both genetic and nutritional levels.
Yang Guo, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences
"Ao Han sheep is the first snowflake lamb breed cultivated, lamb tenderness is high, intermuscular fat is rich, there are high-end marbles, which are rich in unsaturated fatty acids", according to Yang Guo, a high-end lamb brand has been created - "Snowflake and Sheep".
In order to ensure that consumers can buy fresh lamb at the first time, supporting slaughtering and cold chain distribution have become just needed. Aodu Agriculture and Animal Husbandry purchased a traceable slaughtering line made in Germany, Huang Gangjun said that at present, the daily slaughtering capacity of Ao Han sheep in the industrial park is maintained at 1,000-1,500, and the total output value in 2021 is expected to reach 1.1 billion yuan; with the increase of breeding volume, the slaughtering capacity will be released accordingly, and it is expected that by April 2023, the daily slaughter capacity can be increased to 3,000 heads.
Ao Han sheep slaughtering and processing workshop
The rapid development of the Du'an meat and sheep industry, the high-quality development model has attracted the attention of the industry, and many governments and industry insiders in neighboring provinces have expressed their hope to learn from or exchange learning. Huang Gangjun is full of confidence in the Du'an model, "Du'an is the first home of the Australian Han sheep, and in the future, with Du'an as the center, the Du'an model will certainly have the opportunity to enter other regions and contribute to the increase of farmers' income."
[Author] Reporter Li Zhixian Huang Zimin
【Coordinator】 Ye Dingze Wei Changsheng Xian Weifeng
【Guidance】Hong Jiyu Peng Jin
【Source】 Southern Rural Daily