Haibei Prefecture: the Little Lamb supports the Big Industry

People on the plateau often humorously say that sheep in Qinghai eat Cordyceps sinensis and drink mineral water. This funny description precisely shows the brand value of Haibei Lamb in Qinghai Province. After scientific and technological innovation in recent years, Haibei has successfully explored a set of comprehensive techniques for efficient breeding of Tibetan ewes with "three births in two years", demonstrated and popularized them, opening the way for the transformation and upgrading of modern ecological animal husbandry on the Qinghai plateau. it also lays a solid technical foundation for the development of "lamb economy".

It is understood that Haibei existing natural grassland area of 39.72 million mu, of which available grassland area of 35.788 million mu. The number of livestock raised reached 3.27 million head, of which 2.73 million sheep were kept, the proportion of ewes capable of breeding reached 62.9%, and 1.6 million lambs were born annually. More than 600000 lambs are sold every year, accounting for 70% of the total number of mutton sheep sold, with an annual output of more than 9000 tons of lamb.

You Haihong, director of the Haibei Prefecture Bureau of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, said: "Lamb production is the main way of mutton production in developed countries and regions of animal husbandry in the world. Haibei Prefecture started early in lamb production. If we have such a resource advantage, we should not lag behind others. We should make full and rational use of it to build a real industry of enriching the people. "

Zhou Yuqing, senior veterinary doctor of Haibei Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science Research Institute, said that in the two years since the implementation of the "three births in two years" project, 2000 ewes from 10 demonstration households have produced a total of 5894 lambs in two years, with a survival rate of 96.9 percent. Moreover, the birth weight, weaning weight and fencing weight of lambs at the age of 6 months have been greatly improved, achieving an average annual income increase of 66600 yuan per household.

This year, Haibei Prefecture has produced more than 110000 live lambs through the highly efficient breeding technology of "three births in two years" of Tibetan sheep, and all 6-month-old lambs with a body weight similar to that of adult sheep were released in July.

Haibei Little Lamb holds up a large industry, in addition to the advantages of natural resources and technology, of course, it is also inseparable from a number of powerful animal products processing leading enterprises. At present, a number of livestock products processing enterprises with Qinghai Xiahua halal Meat Co., Ltd. as the core have set up or represented more than 50 Haibei beef and mutton direct sales stores in Shandong, Zhejiang, Ningxia, Guangdong, Gansu and other provinces and cities. and with Wal-Mart supermarket, Hualian supermarket, Ginza supermarket and other merchants signed supply agreements.

Li Shoujia, general manager of Qinghai Xiahua halal Meat Co., Ltd., said that on the basis of selling carcass meat, the company will focus on developing Haibei ecological lamb butterfly chops, lamb deli series and other high-end products, in order to enhance the added value of Haibei lamb. At the same time, it is committed to the brand construction of Haibei lamb, so that the market value of Haibei lamb delicacies can be reflected, and a good mechanism of "cultivating famous brands, developing famous brands, publicizing famous brands and protecting famous brands" will be gradually formed. explore a plateau modern ecological animal husbandry "brand strong farmers, brand rich farmers" innovative development road.

Our reporter Kui Jinliang