2019-05-23 06:43 | Zhejiang News Client | Reporter Kong Liqin Correspondent Zheng Xinyu
Geese swinging hemp chicken.
On May 22, the reporter learned from the Yueqing Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs that in the new batch of provincial-level livestock and poultry genetic resources list released by the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs on the 20th of this month, Yandang Ma chicken was selected.
Originating in Yandang Mountainous Area, Yandang Hemp Chicken belongs to the combined use of egg and meat breeds, and is a unique poultry resource in Yandang Mountainous Area, with the advantages of good physique, strong adaptability, tolerance to rough feeding, high egg production and high proportion of egg yolks. In April 2017, the original breeding farm of Yandang Ma Chicken passed the appraisal of Zhejiang Provincial Livestock and Poultry Genetic Resources Commission and obtained a breeding stock and poultry production and operation license.
In recent years, with the recognition of Yandang hemp chicken by the market, the amount of chicken seedling breeding has increased by 30% per year, especially after obtaining the breeding livestock and poultry production and operation license, the market prospects of Yandang hemp chicken are promising, and the output value has doubled. In 2002, farmers in Yandang area carried out large-scale breeding of Yandang hemp chicken for the first time, with a breeding quantity of about 600,000 birds and an annual output value of about 10 million yuan. So far, the number of Yandang hemp chickens bred in Yandang area has exceeded 1.4 million birds, with an annual output value of more than 100 million yuan.
The relevant person in charge of the Municipal Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau said that livestock and poultry genetic resources are an important part of biodiversity, an important material basis and strategic resource for the development of animal husbandry, and are non-renewable. The ownership and research and development capacity of livestock and poultry genetic resources have become one of the important indicators to measure the comprehensive strength and sustainable development capacity of a region's animal husbandry industry. In the Wenzhou area, after excavation and breeding, Yandang Ma Chicken is the first to be included in the provincial inventory of livestock and poultry genetic resources. Yandang Ma Chicken was included in the list of livestock and poultry genetic resources in Zhejiang Province, filling the gap that Yueqing did not have livestock and poultry genetic resources, achieving a major breakthrough in the protection and development of livestock and poultry genetic resources in Yueqing, and building a major breakthrough in the protection and brand building of livestock and poultry genetic resources in Yueqing, and even Wenzhou, which is of great significance to the development of the poultry industry and efficient and characteristic animal husbandry in Yueqing and even Wenzhou.