Yu Kangzhen, Vice Minister of Agriculture: give priority to pastoral areas based on ecology

On August 24, Vice Minister of Agriculture Yu Kangzhen conducted research on strengthening intellectual support for grassland ecological protection construction and grassland animal husbandry transformation and development in Gonghe County and Huangyuan County, Qinghai Province. He stressed: as long as we unswervingly adhere to giving priority to ecology, take the road of grassland ecological animal husbandry with a win-win harmony of ecology, production, and life, make efforts both inside and outside, make good use of various policies on solid grasslands, and develop intensive modern grassland animal husbandry, the sustainable development of pastoral areas on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau will have broad prospects.

In Layi Haima Village, Gonghe County, the grass-roots contact point of Yu Kangzhen, he visited and inspected the local ecological animal husbandry professional cooperatives, large-scale breeding farms, and beautiful rural construction achievements exhibition, attended the intellectual service week organized by the national forage industry technology system, and held discussions with local cadres and herdsmen.

Hua Bao, secretary of the party branch of Layi Haima Village, said: "from the well-known problem village to the well-known advanced village in the county, earth-shaking changes have taken place in the village in just a few years. In the future, the village should speed up the development of efficient and modern animal husbandry, and make great efforts in the secondary and tertiary industries to truly increase the income of the villagers while protecting the grassland ecology. " Seeing the great changes in the village in recent years, after listening to Huabao's speech, Yu Kangzhen was very gratified. He said: the development of the village is inseparable from the strong support and help of all departments at all levels, but what is more important is the determination of the village "two committees" and the herdsmen to work hard. He stressed: in the future development, we must firmly put the ecological protection and construction of grasslands in the first place, vigorously develop grass and animal husbandry by changing the development mode of animal husbandry, and give full play to the role of specialized cooperatives and other economic cooperation organizations. to achieve the integrated development of primary, secondary and tertiary industries and promote the sustainable development of grasslands. At the same time, he asked grassland animal husbandry technology promotion departments and scientific research institutes at all levels to seriously base on the reality of grass-roots grassland protection and construction and the development of grassland animal husbandry, highlight the orientation of problems, give full play to their own advantages, and carry out regular intellectual services.

In the pilot project of Danqing forage planting professional cooperative and Sanjiang Yili grass and animal husbandry recycling industry in Shiyawan Village, Riyue Tibetan Township, Huangyuan County, Yu Kangzhen observed the bread grass production process and inquired in detail about the economic and ecological benefits brought by forage planting. He stressed that vigorously developing grass and animal husbandry and actively carrying out grain feeding pilot projects are the clear requirements of the first document this year, and it is also an important measure for the current transformation and structural adjustment of agriculture and animal husbandry. All localities and departments should attach great importance to it and take positive actions. Combined with their own resource endowments, we should deeply tap the development potential of local grass and animal husbandry, encourage all kinds of production and operation entities to participate, and promote the in-depth integration of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries. We should do a good job in the trial work of grass and animal husbandry and grain feeding, gradually summarize and popularize the successful experience and typical model of the integration of planting and breeding, and strive to create a new situation in the development of grass and animal husbandry.