Dawu promotes cattle breed improvement and develops Beef cattle and Milk Buffalo breeding

In recent years, livestock husbandry, beef cattle breeding and dairy buffalo breeding in Dawu Mountain area are replacing farming cattle feeding, and the development of beef cattle and dairy buffalo is becoming an important way for farmers to shake off poverty and become well-off. Please listen to the report from Dawutai reporter Wen Bo.

Zhang Xiaozhou, a villager of Gaofeng Village, Daxin Town, Dawu County, invested more than 100,000 yuan to set up a peak cattle farm in 2008. 30 beef cattle have reached a certain scale and achieved good economic benefits.

Zhang Xiaozhou: "Last September, I bought 30 calves worth more than 3000 yuan each and fed them for nine months. Now the big calves have grown to about 1200 jin. According to the market price, each calf can be sold for an average of 10,000 yuan."

Dawu has a mountain farm area of 1.743 million mu and an appropriate pasture of 1.24 million mu. In recent years, Dawu breeding has initially formed yellow cattle and hybrid beef cattle breeding mainly in the four mountain systems of Dawu Mountain, Xianjuding, Niangding and Wuyue Mountain. it has formed a breeding pattern of dairy buffalo based on the three major water systems of "Huanhe River, Zhugan River and Xishui", with 48000 beef cattle produced annually in the county.

Hybrid improvement is an important way to popularize beef cattle breeding. Dawu started the breeding work of frozen semen in 2006, breeding 2000 cattle a year, and striving to use it for five years. The breeding capacity of beef cattle in the county exceeded 10, 000, and only raising cattle products increased farmers' income by 10 million yuan.