Zhaihe Township is located in the northern part of Kongtong District, located in the core area of the triangle where three counties and seven townships of two provinces meet, with unique location advantages, a long history of cattle raising, every family has breeding experience, everyone has breeding technology, and the breeding industry has always been a characteristic industry that the masses support and favor.
Ma Xinde is the secretary of the party branch of Yanwan Village, Zhaihe Township, and is also one of the top cattle farmers and corn growers in the township.
"In the beginning, I was on my own, raising only a few dozen cows. In 2019, a cooperative was established with policy support, and now we raise more than 300 cattle. It also planted more than 500 acres of corn in the name of the cooperative, planted corn to raise cattle, and raised his cattle with the corn he planted. Ma Xinde said.
With the growth of the cattle breeding group, Zhaihe Township has invested 5 million yuan and 1.7 million yuan respectively to build the Yanpu Village Collective Economic Breeding Community and Dalu Village Party Building "Four-in-One" Leading Beef Cattle Industry Development Base, with a total of 620 cattle in the two breeding communities. At the same time, in the aspects of purchasing, feeding, epidemic prevention and sales, "take the farmers to do it and help the masses earn" to achieve a "win-win" situation for the village collectives and farmers.
"Through the strategy of 'capable people first trying', 'farming community substitution' action, and 'large breeders leading' mode, the establishment of party organization leaders, party member leaders, and rich leaders 'three' leader team of 109 people, in the township has formed a good pattern of cattle raising and household income, so that the cattle industry has maintained a rapid development momentum, and the township has achieved an average of 2 cattle per person in the township." Chen Qinsheng, chairman of the Zhaihe Township People's Congress, said.
In recent years, based on the advantages of "more" cattle raising masses, Zhaihe Township sang a good "scale play", with the help of the policy of cattle industry development, vigorously carried out the strategy of "hiding cattle in the household and breeding simultaneously", and successively implemented the projects such as the greenhouse cowshed, seeing the calf and supplementing the mother, the protection of the basic cows raised by poor households, the subsidies for the new purchase of basic cows by poor households without raising cattle, and the silage machinery, so that the cattle industry has maintained a rapid momentum of development. At present, the township has 24,000 beef cattle, 10,800 heads, 13,000 heads of cattle slaughtered annually, and 455 large cattle households with more than 10 heads. At the same time, focusing on the advantages of 41,000 acres of dry farming farming township and 24,000 beef cattle breeding township, Zhaihe Township has made great efforts in the industrial chain of forage planting, forage processing, beef cattle breeding, meat sales, etc., and has built two live animal trading markets and a forage silage distribution center, forming an industrial chain integrating forage planting, silage processing and forage distribution, and has embarked on a new path of "whole chain development" based on the silage forage distribution center in Yanwan Village, Gaozhai live livestock trading market and trade logistics base.
"Beef cattle breeding and corn farming have now become the backbone industries in our township. Through the vigorous promotion of dry farming technology, corn straw is used as the most important feed for beef cattle breeding, which provides the most basic forage reserves for large-scale beef cattle breeding, and also drives the vigorous development of corn planting industry. At the same time, in order to further unblock the beef cattle sales channels and let the masses obtain higher profits, the township helps the masses to connect with the enterprise, and adopts the method of signing a fixed contract, so that the people in some villages have established long-term business relations with eight food groups in Zhenyuan, Pengyang and Pingliang City, and the farmers in the township have now fully realized the door-to-door purchase of beef cattle for sale. Wang Hong, Secretary of the Party Committee of Zhaihe Township, said.
Gansu Radio and Television Station all-media reporter Ha Jizhou