In order to better build a good livestock purchase and sales platform for the majority of farmers and merchants, so that the masses have a market, security and a way out. In recent years, Longxi County has scientifically planned the livestock and poultry trading market, actively standardized the market trading order, and the livestock and poultry trading market has been full of "cattle" and "livestock", which has effectively promoted the high-quality development of animal husbandry in the county and the increase of farmers' income.
On May 12, the fifth day of the fourth lunar month, the livestock and poultry trading market in Yuntian Town, Longxi County, was opened for trading, which was also the first trading day after the market adjustment this year. In the market, the crowd is crowded, the excitement is abnormal, the cow barks one after another, from Longxi and the surrounding cities and counties in the province, and even Qinghai, Henan, Ningxia and other places of merchants shuttle in the market, buyers and sellers bargain, the transaction is booming.
Li Xiaoping, administrator of the livestock and poultry trading market in Yuntian Town, Longxi County: It turns out that our market is the 1st, 4th, and 7th of the lunar month, which corresponds to the market day of Kangle, Lintao, and Ningxia (Xiji County), so it is very inconvenient for merchants to catch the market, so we changed the market day to the 2nd, 5th, and 9th of the lunar month. After the set, the number of cattle and merchants are doubled, more than 300 merchants came today, more than 200 cattle came, the transaction volume can reach 80%, and the transaction volume reaches about 1.2 million yuan.
Chen Lin, a cattle farmer in Changgu Village, Gongchang Town, Longxi County, specially brought five cattle raised by his family to the market for sale, and in less than three hours, all five cattle were sold.
Chen Lin, a cattle farmer in Changgu Village, Gongchang Town, Longxi County: There are more cattle at home. Hearing this news, the five cows sold for less than 30,000 yuan, but today's transaction was a little better than I expected.
The livestock and poultry trading market in Yuntian Town, Longxi County is located in Shangdadao Village, with convenient transportation conditions. The market was built in 2018, the trading area covers an area of about 22 acres, there are cattle, donkeys, horses and sheep and other livestock and poultry business areas, with 1,410 square meters of trading sheds and 4 standardized enclosures with a total of 1,000 square meters. Since the operation of the market, it has attracted merchants from inside and outside the province to gather and trade. In addition to the cattle sources from Longxi and surrounding cities and counties, there are also cattle from Shandong, Ningxia and Zhangye, Wuwei and other places in our province, and the trading radiates Henan, Qinghai, Hubei, Chongqing and other places. The annual trading volume of cattle in the market reached more than 12,000 heads, and the total transaction amount reached 200 million yuan. The establishment of the market not only provides timely and accurate livestock and poultry price information for the majority of farmers in our county, but also promotes the flow of cattle and sheep in the province and even all over the country through sales and transportation in other places, and drives more than 1,000 households around the market to develop improved breeds of beef cattle.
He Yabin, director of Longxi County Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Technical Service Center: After the completion of this market, we can sell the cattle and sheep in the county here, which has played a role in connecting the dots and areas for the construction of our entire Weibei Grass and Animal Husbandry Industrial Park, and has achieved great results in the construction of the entire industrial chain park, especially for centralized acquisition, fattening, processing and sales.
In recent years, with the development of the breeding industry, the average annual cattle breeding stock in Longxi County has reached more than 120,000 heads, the sheep stock has reached more than 400,000, and the annual cumulative trading cattle are about 21,800 heads and about 62,600 sheep. In order to give better play to the distribution function of the livestock and poultry trading market, and build a good livestock purchase and sales platform for the majority of farmers and merchants, the county has built 6 livestock and poultry trading markets in Wenfeng, Yuntian, Tong'anyi and other townships, which has effectively driven the development of related industries such as breeding and production, cattle and sheep trafficking in the county and its surroundings, and broadened the channels for the masses to increase their income and get rich.
Longxi financial media all-media reporter Mo Hongxia