Recently, walking into Hexiang Agricultural and Sideline Products Sales Co., Ltd. in Nijiaying Town, Linze County, the processing of steam-pressed flake corn is in hot progress, workers skillfully operate the production machinery, corn through a series of processes such as impurity removal, soaking, steaming, tableting, drying, etc., has achieved "transformation" and become a "delicacy" in the mouth of cattle and sheep.
Linze County Hexiang Agricultural and Sideline Products Sales Co., Ltd. flake corn production project is a new project introduced by Nijiaying Town in 2023 through going out to attract investment, covering an area of 6,000 square meters, with a total investment of 48 million yuan, and has built a set of steam flake corn production line with an annual output of 30,000 tons, with an annual output value of more than 100 million yuan. The in-situ deep processing of corn has been realized, and the "gold industry chain" has been lengthened.
"Flake corn is mainly sold to our cattle farm near Nijiaying, and the cattle farm near Zhangye is supplied as much as possible, and the absorption rate of corn flake cattle after eating is high, which can reach more than 95%." Xue Xinli of Linze County Hexiang Agricultural and Sideline Products Sales Co., Ltd. said.
According to Xue Xinli, steam flake corn is currently the world's advanced grain feed processing method, through the wet heat processing of corn, change the molecular chain structure inside corn, improve the biological value of corn, so that livestock on corn nutrient absorption utilization rate from the past 60% to more than 96%, after steam tablet treatment of corn, can adjust the balance of ruminant intestinal flora, improve milk production and meat quality.
In recent years, Linze County has focused on cultivating new agricultural formats, highlighted the characteristic advantages of extending the chain to supplement the chain and strengthening the chain, focused on breaking through the breakpoints and blocking points of the industrial chain of intensive processing of agricultural products, comprehensively extending the agricultural industrial chain, improving the added value of agricultural products, further promoting the industrial development pattern of relying on primary production to plan secondary production and promoting tertiary production, and continuously promoting the upgrading of industries and products. (Li Weili, Jiang Yurong, Li Hailong)
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