Grassland Ecological Replenishment Award stimulates herdsmen's entrepreneurial vitality

"Last year, the province set up a performance management pilot project in Shaliuhe Town and Quanji Township, Gangcha County, in which the distribution of supplementary funds for grassland ecological protection was linked to protection responsibility and protection effect. The purpose of this reform is to protect the grasslands on which we live, and it has won the support of the broad masses of herdsmen. " As an expert at getting rich in Ningxia Village, Quanji Township, Gangcha County, Qinghai Province, I am well aware of what strengthening grassland ecological protection means to herdsmen.

We will adhere to ecological protection first and achieve the "win-win-win" goals of ecological improvement, production development and prosperity through reform. Over the past year, Ningxia village has organized grassland managers to strictly verify the areas, areas and number of livestock prohibited by households, formulate livestock reduction plans, and implement livestock reduction measures and management and protection responsibility system. The whole county assesses the herdsmen, grassland managers, village committees and township (town) governments step by step in accordance with the "performance Evaluation Table of Pastoral households in Gangcha County Supplementary Award Mechanism".

Zhang Xinglong, secretary of the village party branch, said: "now 70% of the bonus funds are put into the herdsmen's account through 'one card', and 30% of the reserved funds are cashed through performance appraisal. If herdsmen graze during the forbidden period, 1% of the forbidden grazing subsidy funds will be deducted, up to 30%; livestock overload 1%, grass-livestock balance incentive fund 1%, up to 30% deducted. These deducted compensation funds are mainly used to reward outstanding herdsmen, village-level infrastructure construction, and so on. "

The performance appraisal system should be linked to the funds of forbidden animal husbandry subsidies for herdsmen, so that while enjoying policy subsidies, herdsmen can actively implement the ban on grazing and reduce livestock, achieve a balance between grass and livestock, and regard the protection of grasslands as their due responsibility. in order to build a win-win situation of effective protection of grassland environment and benign development of ecological production. Through the pilot project of performance management, Gangcha County has found a new way to implement the grassland ecological compensation policy, which indicates that Qinghai has taken the lead in establishing the performance evaluation method of grassland ecological protection compensation mechanism in the whole country.

From exploring the "double-to-win" of modern animal husbandry on the plateau, to popularizing the supporting techniques for efficient breeding of Tibetan sheep, and to realizing the goal of "two years and three births" of Tibetan ewes, Ningxia Village has always stood at the forefront of the development of grassland ecological animal husbandry, and the annual income of villagers has increased by thousands of yuan. In 2014, the per capita income of the whole village is expected to reach about 12000 yuan.

"if we take the right path, use the achievements of science and technology, and develop large-scale farming, the lives of our herdsmen will be greatly changed!" Caibao said that in order to protect the grassland ecology in Ningxia village last year, 90% of the herdsmen in the village adopted efficient Tibetan sheep breeding techniques for shed feeding and half-house breeding. In particular, the village branch secretary took the lead in demonstrating the Tibetan ewe "two-year triplet" pilot project, with a net income increase of more than 100000 yuan in two years, creating another way for the herdsmen in the village to increase their income.

"in order to achieve a fundamental improvement in ecology, increase the income of herdsmen and keep the market supply unchanged, it is necessary to break the tradition, change the mode of production, and rely on ecological animal husbandry cooperatives to develop large-scale aquaculture under the premise of protecting grassland ecology. to benefit from scientifically applicable technology and fine management." The director of the Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau of Gangcha County introduced that through the pilot project, the ban on animal husbandry and livestock reduction in Ningxia villages has been fully implemented, and many herdsmen have begun to invest in the forage industry, develop large-scale breeding, and engage in tourism and other tertiary industries, and have embarked on diversified channels to increase income.