When you think of duck, what comes to mind?
Is it the fat but not greasy Peking duck, and the tooth is fragrant? Is the skin of Nanjing saltwater duck tender, fragrant and delicious? Or is it the crispness of Shanghai Babao duck that is not rotten and the juice is fragrant? Or is the skin of the Hunan sauce plate duck crispy and fragrant, and the sauce is fragrant? From banquet dinner dishes to street food, duck has been indispensable in Chinese recipes since ancient times, which is enough to spy people's love for it.
Roast duck
Saltwater duck
As the first consumption and production country of meat duck, but it is "stuck in the neck" by the breeding duck?
The annual demand for meat ducks in China is about 5 billion, accounting for more than 8% of the country's total meat output, and it is the third largest meat consumer product after pork and chicken. At the same time, China is also the world's largest producer and consumer of duck meat, accounting for about 60% of the world's duck stock, and duck meat production exceeds 10 million tons. However, the huge output did not bring correspondingly rich returns.
The breeding source of white-feathered duck has long relied on foreign varieties, and the cost of introduction remains high.
Developed countries such as Europe and the United States have cultivated many excellent meat duck supporting lines and controlled the world's leading meat duck breeding technology. Cherry Valley Duck, which has long occupied more than 80% of China's meat duck market, has always been in the hands of Cherry Valley farms in the United Kingdom in terms of breeding technology and patents. But, you know what? The British "Cherry Valley Duck", which makes hundreds of millions of yuan in profits from China every year, is a supporting line of duck species that is cross-bred and bred from Beijing duck and Ellisbury duck, and its original species is Beijing duck. Originally a local variety in China, it was promoted to the world in the hands of the British, and then pushed to the country, occupying most of the market.
Taking a domestic agricultural product company as an example, the introduction fee for a 1-day-old ancestral breeding duck is 500 yuan, and the company introduces 320-480 units (1 unit is 140) ancestral breeding ducks every year, and needs to pay the introduction fee of 17.6 million to 26.4 million yuan to Cherry Valley Company. In addition, companies need to pay 50% of the profits to the joint venture parties every year. Chinese enterprises have long borne high costs of introduction, restricting the development of China's meat duck industry from the source and threatening the safety of China's meat duck breeding industry.
Cherry Valley Duck
The right to speak in the global duck breed market has returned to China
On September 11, 2017, a blockbuster news exploded in the global meat and duck market. Beijing Shounong Co., Ltd. and CITIC Modern Agricultural Fund announced in Beijing that the two sides have signed a definitive agreement to jointly acquire a 100% stake in Cherry Valley Farm Co., Ltd. in the United Kingdom. The global duck breed market, which has been dominated by foreign countries for a hundred years, has regained its right to speak.
Taking back the "sovereignty" of Beijing duck breeding does not mean that the road of meat duck breeding research in China can slow down from now on. Breaking the monopoly of varieties, establishing a sound modern commercial breeding system for meat ducks, and breeding mainstream varieties with independent intellectual property rights and international competitiveness are important issues that need to be solved urgently in the development of China's meat duck industry.
Zhongxin White Feather Meat Duck A new breed of meat duck of pure Chinese ancestry
In order to win the battle of turning the meat duck breeding industry around, the Beijing Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Shandong New Hope Liuhe Group Co., Ltd. aimed at the demand for lean meat type and high feed conversion rate meat duck breeds in the development of China's meat duck industry, under the leadership of Professor Hou Shuisheng, using China's meat duck genetic resources, after 6 years of research and breeding, using quantitative genetics breeding theory and modern breeding equipment and technology to cultivate the "Zhongxin White Feather Meat Duck" supporting line.
Zhongxin White Feather Duck Duck Fry
Zhongxin white feather meat duck has the characteristics of fast growth rate, strong adaptability, feed conversion efficiency and high lean meat rate, compact body, developed chest muscles, large duck gizzard, thin skin, good meat quality, and the quality of meat is more suitable for the taste and cooking habits of Chinese. Suitable for segmented food processing, the production performance indicators reach or exceed the foreign similar varieties, with strong market competitiveness and application prospects, can be promoted and applied in the main meat and duck production areas in the country.
In 2019, the number of New China-Singapore White Feather Meat Ducks exceeded 366 million, accounting for about 10.6% of the national market, which greatly improved the localization rate of meat duck breeds.
Zhongxin White Feather Meat Duck
How much economic benefits will the breeding of "Zhongxin White Feather Meat Duck" bring to the enterprise?
If the ancestors introduce 400 units of "Zhongxin White Feather Meat Duck", the cost of introduction will be saved by 20 million yuan. Each unit provides 10 more parent generations than the imported varieties, with a benefit of 46,000 yuan / unit, and an annual income of 18.4 million yuan for the ancestral farm. The material-to-weight ratio of "Zhongxin White Feather Meat Duck" is 0.02 lower than that of the introduced species, and each duck can save 60 grams of feed; the survival rate is increased by 1.5%, and the profit of a single duck is 0.51 yuan higher.
Zhongxin White Feather Duck Breeding Duck Farm
The successful breeding of the new breed of White Feather Meat Duck in China and Singapore has broken the situation that cherry valley breeding ducks have dominated the world for a long time and enriched the breeds of lean white feather meat ducks in China. On the road of mastering the core breeding technology of meat duck, realizing the self-reliance of seed industry science and technology, and the independent control of seed sources, it has taken another step forward.
Editor: Zhang Xueting| Editor-in-Chief: Shang Qinru Supervisor: Ren Min