Ministry of Agriculture: Livestock Farm Manure Treatment Facilities to Reach Over 75% by 2020
China Securities Journal Online - Vice Minister of Agriculture Yu Kangzhen recently pointed out that it is necessary to continuously advance large-scale, standardized and ecological livestock and poultry farming, and strive to have over 75% of large-scale farms equipped with manure treatment facilities by 2020, with livestock and poultry manure basically utilized as resources.
China Securities Journal Online - Vice Minister of Agriculture Yu Kangzhen recently pointed out that it is necessary to continuously advance large-scale, standardized and ecological livestock and poultry farming, and strive to have over 75% of large-scale farms equipped with manure treatment facilities by 2020, with livestock and poultry manure basically utilized as resources.
According to a Xinhua News Agency report on October 19, "At present, livestock and poultry farming pollution has become an important source of agricultural non-point source pollution, and solving the problem of comprehensive manure utilization is extremely urgent." Yu Kangzhen pointed out at the National On-site Meeting on Standardized Large-scale Livestock and Poultry Farming and Comprehensive Manure Utilization that in recent years the Ministry of Agriculture has continuously advanced standardized large-scale farming, and the development of the livestock industry has achieved remarkable results, with the level of scale, the level of facility equipment and the level of production all notably improved. But at the same time, the environmental pollution problems brought by livestock and poultry farming have become increasingly prominent, becoming an important constraining factor affecting the sustainable development of the livestock industry.
Yu Kangzhen emphasized that the next step is to go all out to do a good job in six key areas of work. It is necessary to adjust and optimize the layout of livestock production, continuously advance standardized large-scale farming, explore and improve farming techniques and manure treatment technologies, strengthen the leading role of pilot demonstrations, intensify policy support, and innovate working methods.
Industry insiders pointed out that modern agriculture is the main direction of China's agricultural development, and in the future China will adopt measures such as controlling the total amount of agricultural water use, reducing the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, basically realizing the resource utilization of livestock and poultry manure and crop straw, and basically realizing the effective recovery and treatment of discarded agricultural film, to advance the development of modern ecological circular agriculture. Among A-share listed companies, Lanfeng Biochemical, Luxi Chemical, Fubon Shares, Longlive Bio-technology and others are involved in businesses related to ecological agriculture.
According to a Xinhua News Agency report on October 19, "At present, livestock and poultry farming pollution has become an important source of agricultural non-point source pollution, and solving the problem of comprehensive manure utilization is extremely urgent." Yu Kangzhen pointed out at the National On-site Meeting on Standardized Large-scale Livestock and Poultry Farming and Comprehensive Manure Utilization that in recent years the Ministry of Agriculture has continuously advanced standardized large-scale farming, and the development of the livestock industry has achieved remarkable results, with the level of scale, the level of facility equipment and the level of production all notably improved. But at the same time, the environmental pollution problems brought by livestock and poultry farming have become increasingly prominent, becoming an important constraining factor affecting the sustainable development of the livestock industry.
Yu Kangzhen emphasized that the next step is to go all out to do a good job in six key areas of work. It is necessary to adjust and optimize the layout of livestock production, continuously advance standardized large-scale farming, explore and improve farming techniques and manure treatment technologies, strengthen the leading role of pilot demonstrations, intensify policy support, and innovate working methods.
Industry insiders pointed out that modern agriculture is the main direction of China's agricultural development, and in the future China will adopt measures such as controlling the total amount of agricultural water use, reducing the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, basically realizing the resource utilization of livestock and poultry manure and crop straw, and basically realizing the effective recovery and treatment of discarded agricultural film, to advance the development of modern ecological circular agriculture. Among A-share listed companies, Lanfeng Biochemical, Luxi Chemical, Fubon Shares, Longlive Bio-technology and others are involved in businesses related to ecological agriculture.