"The better the fineness, the better the quality, the better the quality, the higher the yield, the higher the yield for us, the higher the income, the higher the enthusiasm for breeding." Li Fuqiang, a herdsman from The Town of Yikdara Gacha in the chessboard well town who participated in the competition, said.
Recently, the Fifth Albas White Cashmere Goat Breeding Contest in Ordos City, Inner Mongolia was held in Wurendu Xigacha, Qipanjing Town, attracting 120 breeding sheep from 6 Sumu towns in the whole banner and 7 teams of Inner Mongolia Yiwei White Cashmere Goat Co., Ltd. to participate.
Known for its fineness and length, the Otok Albas white cashmere goat, which is one of the main varieties of high-quality cashmere production in the country, belongs to the first-class protected breed of the National Animal Genetic Resources Protection List, and its cashmere is known as "fiber gem" and "soft gold". In 2008, it was certified as a national geographical indication for agricultural products, and in 2021, Otok Albas goat meat was selected as one of the first batch of geographical indication products under the China-EU Geographical Indications Agreement.
It is reported that all the participating breeding sheep are the Otok Albas cashmere goats raised in the territory of Otok Banner that meet the requirements of the Inner Mongolia white cashmere goat breed, and are breeding sheep that meet the requirements of livestock and poultry epidemic prevention after quarantine by the local quarantine department, and are divided into four groups according to age and gender, such as adult ram group, adult ewe group, breeding ram group, and breeding ewe group, and compete according to 4 evaluation criteria such as physical characteristics, net cashmere rate, cashmere fineness, and cashmere production. In order to ensure the fairness and scientificity of fineness measurement, the organizing committee of the competition also specially invited the Fiber Quality Monitoring Center of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region to provide technical support for the competition.
"By holding the Albas White Cashmere Goat Breeding Contest, it mainly displays and publicizes the results of the Albas White Cashmere Goat Breeding And Breeding Work, further encourages the majority of farmers and herdsmen to breed high-quality Albas White Cashmere Goats, and further improves and publicizes the overall level and popularity of The Albas White Cashmere Goats." Qipanjing Town Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Acting Mayor of The Town Rated Da.
Since 2020, Otok Banner has integrated project funds of 33.25 million yuan at all levels to create a modern agriculture and animal husbandry industrial park in Inner Mongolia. Build the Albas Velvet Goat Big Data Center, build a centralized management base for breeding rams, cultivate 6 social service organizations, support 6 demonstration cooperatives, build 15 smart farms, and build 217 demonstration households; Completed the determination of 30,000 cashmere goat breeding and improved performance, and subsidized 1,000 high-quality breeding rams; Improve 2 velvet fiber fineness testing rooms, and complete the determination of cashmere fineness of 28,600 copies; 75 artificial insemination stations were built, a total of 68,000 ewes were artificially inseminated, and the number of cashmere goats in the whole flag reached 1.56 million.
"Otok Banner takes the leading role, science and technology drive, demonstration and leadership as the starting point, aims to improve the degree of organization scale and enhance the level of the industrial chain value chain, continuously promotes the innovation of the operation mode, organization mode, technology model, breeding mode and marketing mode of the Albas white cashmere goat industry, and strives to build a linkage development model of "government + state-owned company + leading enterprise + cooperative + social service organization + farmer and herdsman", to do a better and stronger Albas white cashmere goat industry, and to create a 'bellwether' of the advantageous industrial cluster." Zhang Jun, deputy flag commander of the Otok Banner, said.
Wang Yufeng, reporter of Farmers Daily and China Rural Network, Li Hao
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