One "cell" six bulls number one in the country

"Come on, little ones, let's have dinner!" At 15:00 on December 30, at the farm of Henan Jinkat Agricultural Development Company in Chen Cao Township, Xuchang County, Lv Bo, a technician in a white coat, pushed a milk delivery truck into the feeding room, and six calves about 1 meter tall and covered in wheat yellow ran over with joy, and drank 9 kilograms of milk in less than 3 minutes.

These 6 little ones born in Xuchang have just reached the full moon, and they are the first cloned cattle in our province to be bred by somatic cell cloning technology. Six cloned cattle were born at a time, the number of which is the highest in the country.

40 square meters of breeding room, with air conditioning on, calves jumping and jumping. They all have yellow labels on their ears that read "KJH01" and the like. This is an "identity card" that indicates the date of birth and the "family" information.

"This clone can be called a 'cell' six bulls." Lu bo explained that the somatic cells of the six calves were identical and came from a golden Aquiden bull from France. It is the "nobility" among the international large-scale high-quality beef cattle, which is very rare. After an 18-month growth period, the market price of a cloned cow will exceed 300,000 yuan.

What is the boldness and vision of an agricultural company located in the hinterland of the Central Plains to implement cloning technology?

"To realize the leap from traditional agriculture to modern agriculture, we must break with conventions, accelerate the penetration of high and new technologies into agriculture, and accelerate the industrialization of agricultural scientific and technological achievements." Hu Shaotao, chairman of Henan Jinkat Agricultural Development Company, was deeply touched. It is precisely by relying on science and technology for development and taking the road of combining "production, education and research", "Jin carter" started from "seven or eight cattle and more than a dozen sheep", realized more than 20,000 beef cattle per year, and driven more than 5,000 farmers to become a leading enterprise in agricultural industrialization in the province. In early 2015, they invited animal embryo engineering experts, Dr. Liu Hongbo and others to serve as consultants to carry out modern test tube cattle, somatic cloning cattle breeding technology cooperation: a small piece of meat source was collected from the ear of a golden Aquiden bull, and the embryo was transferred to the womb of five Australian Angus cows through cell tissue culture. After 10 months, 6 calves are born healthy almost simultaneously. The successful cloning of golden Aquiden cattle has narrowed the performance difference between beef cattle between China and developed countries, increased the germplasm resources of Beef Cattle in China, and is also good news for "foodies".

"The healthy survival of all 6 cloned cattle is a major event in Xuchang's animal husbandry industry, and it is also a happy event for the development of animal husbandry in the province and even the whole country." Zhao Guoran, director of the Municipal Animal Husbandry Technology Extension Station, believes that to accelerate the realization of agricultural modernization, it is necessary to accelerate the transformation of animal husbandry from "mainly focusing on quantity" to "paying more attention to quality and efficiency". Nowadays, the output value of animal husbandry in our city accounts for half of the total agricultural output value, and its comprehensive strength ranks first in the province. In the next step, the city will also increase investment in science and technology, build a number of agricultural science and technology bases with leading technology, cultivate a high-quality agricultural science and technology team, and further improve the scientific and technological innovation ability and comprehensive benefits of agriculture.