Guazhou County adheres to the work idea of "establishing grass as a business, developing grass and livestock simultaneously, revitalizing animal husbandry with quality, and green development", with the modernization of grass and animal husbandry industry as the goal, highlighting the key links of grass and livestock support, expanding the group increment, improving quality and efficiency, extending the chain and supplementing the chain, strengthening the animal husbandry industry in the whole chain, accelerating the promotion of large-scale animal husbandry operations, production standardization, and development industrialization, and the county's grass and animal husbandry industry continues to maintain a good momentum of development.
At present, it is the alfalfa harvest season, and in the continuous forage planting fields of Changle Village, Suoyang Town, Guazhou County, alfalfa, known as the "king of forage", is lush and green, ushering in the second harvest period.
"I raised more than 70 sheep, 15 cattle, planted 20 acres of alfalfa, alfalfa can be cut three times a year, in addition to their own cattle and sheep to eat a part, you can also sell a part, can sell about 25,000 yuan." Xu Jun, a villager in Changle Village, Suoyang Town, Guazhou County, said.
"At present, our village grows 3,400 acres of forage corn, 2,100 acres of alfalfa, raises more than 900 beef cattle, harvests and sells 3,150 tons of various types of forage annually, forming a whole industrial chain integrating forage planting, forage sales and beef cattle breeding, and the per capita net income of the grass and livestock industry reaches more than 8,000 yuan." Zhong Jilu, secretary of the Party branch and director of the village committee of Changle Village, Suoyang Town, Guazhou County, said.
In recent years, Suoyang town has vigorously developed the grass and animal husbandry industry, and strived to build a high-quality artificial forage production base, the current forage planting area of the town has reached 35,000 mu, and the forage planting area accounts for more than 65% of the town's cultivated area, providing strong support for the development of animal husbandry.
This year, Qi Guofa and Wei Yongxiao, villagers of Waist Zhanzi Village, Dongxiang Township, Guazhou County, both planted forage, which not only provided high-quality feed for their livestock, but also earned additional economic income through the sale of forage.
"I raise more than 60 sheep, so I planted 30 acres of alfalfa and 10 acres of corn, and the alfalfa and corn are harvested and fed to the sheep." Wei Yongxiao said.
"I planted more than 30 acres of alfalfa, and the income from one acre of land is about 3,000 yuan, and more than 30 acres of alfalfa a year can earn 80,000 or 90,000 yuan, which is very good." Qi Guofa said.
To revitalize the countryside, industry is the core. Since the beginning of this year, the Dongxiang Township of Guazhou County has focused on "making the whole chain better and stronger grass and animal husbandry industry", further promoting the expansion of cattle and sheep, continuing to expand the scale of the 1,000-head beef cattle breeding demonstration park, and actively integrating funds to build a comprehensive demonstration park for the grass and animal husbandry industry, through the business model of "cooperatives + bases + farmers", so that the masses can benefit at their doorsteps and increase their income.
"The grass and animal husbandry industry comprehensive demonstration park has built 3,000 square meters of grass storage sheds, 4 high-standard breeding enclosures, purchased 5 large machinery and equipment such as silage trucks and loaders, and can sign silage forage purchase orders of 9,000 acres, absorb 30 low-income people to work nearby, and radiate 700 households in the town and surrounding towns to develop grass and animal husbandry industry, with an average income of 18,000 yuan." Tian Shuo, deputy mayor of Dongxiang Township, Guazhou County, said.
In recent years, Guazhou County has scientifically planned the structural layout of grass and animal husbandry industry, focusing on cattle and sheep facility breeding, continuously guiding the county to expand the planting area of artificial forage, improving the level of improved seed breeding, fattening and slaughter, and comprehensive utilization of forage, implementing the model of "government and enterprise bank insurance + farmers", adhering to the direction of "promoting livestock with grass, combining planting and breeding, and circular development", and continuing to build an ecological cycle modern animal husbandry industry chain integrating breeding, breeding and addition. Up to now, the county's forage planting area is 125,600 mu, the number of cattle and sheep has reached 913,600 (only), the total development of 3 large-scale breeding enterprises, 106 professional cooperatives, 3 green standard scale breeding demonstration farms, 1 green standardized demonstration breeding base, and 8 forage product processing and corn silage processing enterprises. (Reporter丨Zhang Xiaotong, Chang Yu)