This year's second-half farming subsidy programs have been announced, and farmers should check the details

In rural areas, whether it is crop planting or farming, subsidies are the thing farmers care about most. It is almost imaginable that farmers, in order to meet the subsidy standards, keep expanding or renovating their operations. The farming subsidies for the second half of 2017 have been announced. What exactly are they?

1. Livestock and poultry improved-breed subsidies

The state provides subsidies to farms (communities, households) raising reproductive sows, dairy cows and beef cattle that use improved-breed semen for artificial insemination. The subsidy standards are:

Pigs: based on each reproductive sow using 4 doses of semen per year, with a subsidy of 10 yuan per dose, totalling 40 yuan;

Dairy cows: a subsidy of 70 yuan per reproductive cow. For Holstein cattle, each reproductive cow uses 2 doses of frozen semen per year, with a subsidy of 35 yuan per dose;

Beef cattle: dual-purpose Simmental cattle use 2 doses of frozen semen per head per year, with a subsidy of 10 yuan per dose; reproductive beef cows use 2 doses of frozen semen per head per year, with a subsidy of 5 yuan per dose;

Sheep: a one-time subsidy of 800 yuan per breeding ram.

2. Standardized large-scale livestock and poultry farms (communities)

Application period: August

Pigs: 300 or more reproductive sows in stock, and 5,000 or more fattening pigs sold per year, with a subsidy of 250,000-1 million yuan;

Beef cattle: 500 or more fattening cattle sold per year, or 50 or more reproductive cows in stock, with a subsidy of 250,000-500,000 yuan;

Meat sheep: farms in agricultural areas with 250 or more reproductive ewes in stock, or 500 or more meat sheep sold per year; in pastoral areas, 400 or more reproductive ewes in stock, or 1,000 or more meat sheep sold per year, with a subsidy of 250,000-500,000 yuan;

Broiler chickens: 5,000 or more raised per single house, and 100,000 or more sold per year, with a subsidy of 350,000 yuan;

Dairy cows: farms (communities) with 300-499 cows in stock per year receive a central subsidy investment of 800,000 yuan each; farms (communities) with 500-999 cows in stock per year receive a central subsidy investment of 1.3 million yuan each; farms (communities) with 1,000 or more cows in stock per year receive a central subsidy investment of 1.7 million yuan each;

Laying hens: laying hen farming scale (cage capacity) of 10,000 or more, with a subsidy of 350,000 yuan;

Rabbits, waterfowl and bees: launched in the 8 provinces and regions of Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Shandong, Hubei, Guangxi, Sichuan and Qinghai, with specific requirements to be determined by each pilot province in light of local conditions.

3. Standardized healthy fishery farming program

Program requirements: generally requires concentrated and contiguous pond farming area of 100 mu or more; a few provinces require pond-type farms to have a pond area of 200 mu or more, and industrialized farming area of 3,000 sq m or more. The farm must have obtained the title of Aquatic Healthy Farming Demonstration Farm from the Ministry of Agriculture, or those that have obtained this title will have priority in applying.

Program subsidy: 250,000-1 million yuan

Application period: August-September

4. Standardized livestock, poultry and aquatic product farming program

(1) Livestock farming program

Program requirements: farming scale specifically follows local requirements (generally 5,000-50,000 pigs sold per year, with 300 or more reproductive sows in stock; 10,000-100,000 laying hens in stock; 50,000-1 million broiler chickens sold, with no less than 5,000 raised per single house. 100 or more beef cattle sold per year; 300 or more meat sheep sold per year.)

Program subsidy: 500,000-1.5 million yuan

(2) Fishery (aquatic product) program (including deep-water cage farming industry programs)

Program requirements: farming scale specifically follows local requirements (generally the pond area of the farm must be 200 mu or more, and the water surface area of industrialized farming 3,000 sq m or more.)

Program subsidy: 250,000-500,000 yuan

Application period: May and October

5. Pilot program for resource utilization of livestock and poultry manure

Program requirements: the farming scale of pigs, dairy cows, beef cattle and broiler chickens must reach 50,000 head, 1,000 head, 2,000 head and 10 million birds sold per year respectively. The annual manure output of livestock and poultry around commercial livestock and poultry manure treatment enterprises must be 20,000 tonnes or more.

Program subsidy: 3-10 million yuan

Application period: September-October

6. Comprehensive agricultural development livestock and poultry improved-breed breeding

Applicants: enterprises and cooperatives

Program requirements: established for more than 2 years, with registered capital of 3 million yuan or more

Program subsidy: 3 million yuan

Application period: November-December

Note: the support policies are also strong

1. Free vaccines for major animal diseases

The state implements a compulsory immunization policy for animal diseases such as highly pathogenic avian influenza, foot-and-mouth disease, highly pathogenic porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome, classical swine fever and peste des petits ruminants. For the compulsory immunization vaccines for the above major animal diseases, farms (households) do not need to pay for the vaccines.

2. Compensation for losses from the culling of animals with major animal diseases

The state implements compulsory culling of animals infected with highly pathogenic avian influenza, foot-and-mouth disease, highly pathogenic porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome and peste des petits ruminants, as well as animals in the same group, and of dairy cows positive for brucellosis and tuberculosis. Compensation is given for losses caused to farmers by the culling of livestock and poultry due to the above diseases.