2017 Key Work Points for Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Work in Minle County
2017 is an important year for the full implementation of the “13th Five-Year Plan” for National Economic and Social Development, and also a crucial year for deeply advancing supply-side structural reform. Doing a good job in the year's work is of great significance for accelerating the transformation of the animal husbandry development mode, promoting the adjustment and optimization of the agricultural industrial structure, promoting the sustained and healthy development of the rural economy, and ensuring the smooth completion of all targets and tasks. In light of the current realities of animal husbandry development, the 2017 key work points for animal husbandry and veterinary work across the county are hereby formulated.
I. Basic Approach
Guided by the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's series of important speeches, fully implement the spirit of the 18th National Congress of the Party and the third, fourth, fifth and sixth plenary sessions of the 18th Central Committee, firmly establish the development philosophy of “innovation, coordination, green, openness and sharing”, persist in focusing on the “three major” transformations, continuously deepen the construction of the “three counties”, take agricultural supply-side structural reform as the breakthrough point, take innovation-driven development and deepened reform as the driving force, closely focus on the overall situation of targeted poverty alleviation and targeted poverty eradication, focus on the core of increasing farmers' income, closely follow the main line of animal husbandry transformation and upgrading, implement the “three-element two-way” circular model, vigorously advance the structural adjustment of animal husbandry, continuously extend the industrial chain, enhance the value chain, and actively build a modern animal husbandry full industrial chain with complementary industrial advantages and reasonable income distribution, taking the path of modern animal husbandry development featuring efficient output, safe products, resource conservation and environmental friendliness.
II. Main Goals
The county's total animal husbandry output value shall reach 610 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.3%; the added value shall reach 370 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.3%; the livestock and poultry inventory and slaughter volume shall reach 2.54 million head (birds) and 1.21 million head (birds) respectively, a year-on-year increase of 6.4% and 7.6% respectively, of which: the sheep inventory and slaughter volume shall reach 840,000 head and 370,000 head respectively, a year-on-year increase of 12.1% and 7.8% respectively; the pig inventory and slaughter volume shall reach 340,000 head and 180,000 head respectively, a year-on-year increase of 1.1% and 1.2% respectively; the cattle inventory and slaughter volume shall reach 67,000 head and 11,000 head respectively, a year-on-year increase of 1.9% and 2.8% respectively; the chicken inventory and slaughter volume shall reach 1.28 million birds and 660,000 birds respectively, a year-on-year increase of 1.8% and 1.5% respectively; the total output of meat, eggs and milk shall reach 34,000 tons, a year-on-year increase of 5.4%; the per capita net income from animal husbandry for farmers shall reach 3,071 yuan, a year-on-year increase of 9.5%.
III. Work Priorities
To ensure the smooth completion of all targets and tasks, focus on the following nine areas of work:
(1) Accelerate the construction of standardized breeding bases and comprehensively promote the transformation of animal husbandry production methods. Supported by the modern animal husbandry full industrial chain and the cattle and sheep industry major county construction projects, encourage the development of business methods such as large-household alliances, breeding trusteeship, joint breeding and shareholding cooperation, and build 1 standardized breeding demonstration township and 7 demonstration villages; create 1 provincial- and ministerial-level standardized breeding demonstration farm, 5 municipal-level ones and 10 county-level ones; newly build (expand) 20 standardized livestock and poultry breeding communities (farms), with the scale breeding volume of livestock and poultry accounting for more than 80% of the total inventory; closely centering on the renovation and upgrading of the old urban area and the construction of a plateau ecological civilization county, build 1 livestock and poultry breeding demonstration base, 1 comprehensive livestock and poultry trading market and 1 halal cattle and sheep slaughterhouse in the suburbs, comprehensively resolving residential safety hazards and environmental pollution problems and enhancing the city image.
(2) Intensify environmental remediation and comprehensively complete the Qilian Mountains grassland environmental protection tasks. Strictly in accordance with the county party committee and county government's requirement of a “major discovery and major remediation” of ecological and environmental problems, deeply recognize the severe reality of industrial development and environmental carrying capacity, practically enhance the urgency and sense of responsibility for cleanup and rectification, and comprehensively complete the target task of reducing livestock by 23,940 sheep units in the Minle section of the Qilian Mountains Nature Reserve. When implementing the new round of grassland subsidy and reward policies, closely combine the implementation of grazing bans and livestock reduction tasks with the disbursement of grassland subsidy and reward funds, and adopt the method of rewards and deductions to urge the reserve to verify overloaded livestock, ensuring the comprehensive completion of the livestock reduction task. Strengthen grassland management in accordance with the law, implement the grassland requisition and occupation review and approval system, and seriously investigate and deal with illegal acts that damage grasslands such as indiscriminate harvesting and digging, unapproved occupation and overloaded grazing. Continue to remediate the “three degradations” of grasslands, intensify rat and insect pest control, complete 68,000 mu of locust control by grazing chickens and 500,000 mu of insect and rat control by chemicals, and achieve a comprehensive grassland vegetation coverage of over 60.13% across the county. Earnestly complete projects such as the new round of returning farmland to grassland construction, support the growth and development of forage processing enterprises such as Lvdi Agricultural Development Co., Ltd., Xinuo Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Technology Co., Ltd. and Qirui Agricultural Technology Development Co., Ltd., build 2 processing enterprises with an annual production of 10,000 tons of straw feed, drive the planting of 110,000 mu of high-quality forage grass across the county, build 1 base of “10,000 jin of grass per mu, 1,000-mu grass-planting village”, and achieve a straw feed conversion utilization rate of over 67%.
(3) Strengthen environmental pollution control of breeding enterprises and comprehensively promote the sustainable development of animal husbandry. Focusing on the feedback of problems from the Central Environmental Inspection Team and newly added livestock and poultry breeding facilities, seriously rectify completed breeding projects located in core areas and buffer zones, strictly implement the rigid constraint that no new breeding farms may be built in population-concentrated areas such as drinking water source protection areas, scenic and historic interest areas, the core areas and buffer zones of nature reserves, urban residential areas and cultural areas, as well as other areas where breeding is prohibited as stipulated by laws and regulations, and after the county government designates prohibited breeding areas, comprehensively complete the relocation and rectification task of breeding farms and areas within the prohibited breeding areas that genuinely need relocation. Strictly implement the regulation that all breeding farms (communities) in 2017 shall complete environmental impact assessment procedures and build supporting manure and sewage treatment facilities. Resolutely do not approve the construction of projects that affect environmental safety, and at the same time urge completed breeding farms (communities) to install supporting manure and sewage treatment facilities and equipment within a time limit, build 1 new demonstration site for manure and sewage conversion and utilization within the year, and strive to achieve a manure and sewage utilization rate of 86% for large-scale livestock and poultry breeding within the year.
(4) Implement the modern animal husbandry circular development model and enhance the efficiency of manure and sewage recycling. Guided by the pilot project of replacing grain with forage, and following the approach of “stabilizing grain, optimizing cash crops and expanding forage”, appropriately expand the forage planting area, accelerate the construction of a three-element structure of coordinated development of “grain, cash crops and forage”, and establish a planting-breeding circular development model suited to the county's actual conditions. Vigorously develop the agricultural circular model in which crop straw feed is converted through cattle and sheep digestion - manure and sewage is processed into edible fungus substrate and organic fertilizer - edible fungus waste substrate is further processed into feed and organic fertilizer - organic fertilizer is returned to the field to improve soil and build fertility for organic agriculture, achieving a high degree of integration of green breeding production and organic fruit and vegetable production. Continuously strengthen communication with the finance department, actively seek project support funds, and adopt measures such as loan interest subsidies and rewards instead of subsidies to increase support for edible fungus substrate production cooperatives and enterprises, striving to consume 30,000 tons of manure and sewage within the year.
(5) Improve the safety supervision system and comprehensively enhance the safety production guarantee capacity of animal husbandry. Facing the new environment and new tasks of animal husbandry safety supervision, adhere to combining production and management, governing at the source, and with the strictest supervision, the most severe penalties and the most serious accountability, vigorously grasp key links such as disease prevention and control and slaughter supervision, and effectively guarantee the safety of industrial development. First, intensify animal epidemic prevention and quarantine. Strengthen the building of the ranks of official veterinarians, practicing veterinarians, rural veterinarians and village-level epidemic prevention workers, and strive to fill the vacancies within the staffing of township veterinary stations. Increase funding for animal epidemic prevention and quarantine, ensure that animal epidemic prevention and quarantine work fully achieves standardized operation, and achieve the goal of no major animal epidemics and no livestock product quality and safety incidents within the year. Continue to intensify the detection and purification of zoonoses such as brucellosis, echinococcosis and tuberculosis, do a good job in the safety protection of animal epidemic prevention and quarantine personnel, and safeguard public health and people's health. Actively coordinate the construction of the “G227 Line Minle Corridor Animal Epidemic Prevention and Supervision Inspection Station” to build an effective barrier against the introduction of animal epidemics, diseased animals and animal products. Solidly carry out the prevention and control of major animal epidemics in spring and autumn, ensure that the immunization density is maintained at over 90% throughout the year, the qualified rate of immune antibodies is maintained at over 70% throughout the year, and the comprehensive monitoring pass rate for livestock product quality and safety reaches over 99%. Second, establish a big data platform for livestock products. Actively integrate animal husbandry information resources and fully advance the construction of the agricultural product quality and safety traceability platform, the veterinary drug basic data platform, the key livestock product market information platform and the new business entity information direct reporting platform. Advance the “QR code” pilot work in the veterinary drug business segment, establish and improve a full-process traceable network monitoring platform based on electronic certification, encourage breeding enterprises to establish and improve a full-process traceable network monitoring platform based on electronic certification, and build 2 new traceability pilot sites within the year. Third, strengthen safety production supervision. Strictly implement the work requirements of “shared responsibility between party and government, dual responsibility for one post, and accountability for dereliction of duty”, deeply carry out the investigation and rectification of safety hazards, highlight the supervision and inspection of key links such as liquid nitrogen in the improved breed improvement segment, the use of agricultural machinery and equipment in the production segment, and fire prevention at forage yards, improve the grassland supervision and grassland fire prevention systems, and resolutely prevent the occurrence of major and particularly severe safety accidents and grassland fires. Fourth, strengthen the supervision of the slaughter market and inputs. Organize and carry out special rectification work in the feed business and use segments, deeply carry out the “mine-clearing operation” for pig slaughter, and do a good job in the daily supervision of links such as animal breeding, slaughter, transportation, diagnosis and treatment, and live livestock and poultry trading markets. Implement the “five commitments, five notifications” system for veterinary work, implement the main responsibility of breeding farms (households), increase supervision of illegal additives such as “lean meat powder”, implement the “Feed Quality and Safety Specifications”, severely crack down on the illegal acts of selling, trafficking, slaughtering and processing dead and diseased animals, and investigate and handle no fewer than 15 cases and participate in the review of case files throughout the year.
(6) Improve the livestock product circulation system and do a good job in deep processing and brand cultivation of livestock products. Seize the strategic opportunity of the “Belt and Road”, accelerate the construction of specialized markets such as cold chain preservation and electronic logistics for livestock products, encourage enterprises and specialized cooperative organizations such as Jinyangguang and Shunhua Fuxiang to build 3 direct sales outlets for livestock products in second- and third-tier cities, and gradually build a cold chain logistics system for livestock products that meets the needs of consumers, suppliers and retailers. Relying on the existing e-commerce system and livestock product purchase and sales system, fully leverage the advantages of “Internet +”, create “crowdfunded animal husbandry”, and gradually increase the online sales share through forms such as “crowdfunded beef cattle and mutton sheep” and “crowdfunded free-range chickens”. Continue to increase the development of healthy and green livestock products, support leading enterprises and cooperatives in certifying and using the “three products and one label” mark, focus on cultivating high-quality livestock product brands with distinctive features, stable quality, good reputation and high market share such as “Minlian lamb meat” and “Tusijia”, and actively carry out publicity and promotion through various festivals and exhibitions such as the Gansu Agricultural Expo, the Lanzhou Investment and Trade Fair and the Zhangjiao Fair, continuously prompting the county's livestock products and their processed products to enter the high-end market, and strive to create 2 “three products and one label” demonstration sites, newly certify 1 pollution-free product and certify 1 green and organic livestock product within the year.
(7) Advance the strategy of invigorating animal husbandry through science and technology and continuously improve the scientific and technological content of modern animal husbandry. Following the approach of “grasping introduction for high and new technologies, grasping breakthroughs for key technologies, grasping promotion for conventional technologies, grasping popularization for practical technologies, and achieving benefits through comprehensive application”. Make full use of the already built mutton sheep expansion breeding farms and breeding pig farms to carry out the integration, assembly, supporting and experimental demonstration of the “five good” (good breeds, good feed, good methods, good housing, good veterinarians) technologies, and accelerate the transformation and application of animal husbandry scientific and technological achievements. Consolidate and improve the existing 30 dairy and beef cattle artificial insemination stations (points), introduce 12,000 doses of high-quality dairy and beef cattle frozen semen mainly of Simmental and Holstein, and complete frozen semen improvement of over 8,000 head. On the basis of protecting existing fine foundation female livestock, continue to increase the introduction of new mutton sheep breeds, mainly introducing fine breeds such as Australian White, Dorper, Han sheep and Hu sheep, with plans to introduce over 400 breeding rams and achieve crossbreeding improvement of 110,000 mutton sheep. For all breeding livestock and frozen semen transferred and introduced from other places, strictly review in accordance with relevant regulations, introduce uniformly, and establish pedigree archives for all, and strictly prohibit inferior breeds from entering the county.
(8) Seize project construction and investment and financing, and focus on consolidating the foundation for animal husbandry industry development. Take competing for and attracting animal husbandry development investment projects as the top priority of all work, continue to strengthen communication and linkage with higher-level business departments, and ensure the approval and implementation of the already reported mutton sheep industry construction project, the project for transforming the animal husbandry development mode, the high-yield and high-quality alfalfa demonstration construction project and the standardized pig demonstration county construction project. Increase investment attraction, introduce animal husbandry breeding and livestock product deep processing enterprises with large operating scale, strong resource integration capacity and high market share, and ensure that the total investment attraction within the year reaches over 100 million yuan, with over 30 million yuan of funds in place. Encourage and promote the paid rolling use model of fiscal funds, integrate part of the project supporting funds into the agricultural investment company for loan interest subsidies, guarantee mortgages and low-interest loans for operators of the forage and livestock industry, and encourage financial and social capital to invest more in animal husbandry. Actively support the development of animal husbandry specialized cooperative organizations and industry associations, and fully leverage their role in technology promotion, industry self-discipline, rights protection and market development.
(9) Solidly advance the cultivation of targeted poverty alleviation industries and boost increased production and income for poor households. Closely centering on the “1236” poverty alleviation campaign, the county party committee's “1+15” poverty alleviation policies, further consolidate and expand the achievements of targeted poverty alleviation and poverty eradication, fully leverage the radiation and driving role of already built breeding farms (communities), take advantage of abundant forage resources, and encourage and support people who have been lifted out of poverty to develop grass-eating livestock breeding mainly of mutton sheep and beef cattle. Mobilize large breeding households with good economic conditions to jointly establish breeding specialized cooperatives, absorb scattered-raising households through shareholding, expand breeding scale, enhance the ability to resist market risks and improve breeding efficiency. Organize animal husbandry technical backbones to conduct classified training of over 20 sessions (times) on practical technologies such as beef cattle and mutton sheep breeding, forage planting and forage processing in poor villages.
IV. Safeguard Measures
1. Implement support policies. Firmly seize the favorable opportunity of the state increasing investment in animal husbandry year by year, and earnestly implement policies related to supporting animal husbandry development. Strictly implement the support policies of the county party committee and county government's Document No. 1 “Opinions on Accelerating the Construction of the Cold and Cool Economic Industrial Belt and Focusing on Building a Modern Agricultural Industry Integration Zone” regarding newly built (renovated) breeding farms (communities), demonstration farm creation, manure and sewage harmless treatment pit and pond construction, agricultural product circulation and brand building, ensuring that all policies are implemented in place and funds are used safely.
2. Strengthen animal husbandry industry services. Continuously strengthen the building of the professional technical team, regularly conduct policy and business knowledge training for cadres, strengthen the learning and promotion of high and new technologies, key technologies, conventional technologies and practical technologies, and support professional and technical personnel in carrying out technical cooperation with breeding enterprises and leading enterprises. Solidly carry out monitoring actions for the construction of the animal husbandry full industrial chain, timely grasp the production and market operation trends, and do a good job in information collection, release, analysis and judgment. On the basis of the Third National Agricultural Census and last year's animal husbandry data verification, adopt the method of “bottom-up, adding new and filling gaps”, establish comprehensive, authentic and accurate basic ledgers for breeding farms (households), forage and livestock product processing, forage land, animal epidemic prevention and quarantine, and slaughter circulation, and in accordance with the principle of respecting the laws and seeking truth from facts, verify and approve basic data, regularly update dynamic data, ensure that animal husbandry information is accurate and reliable, and better serve industrial development.
3. Improve the working mechanism. Decompose targets and tasks level by level, list task lists and responsibility lists, improve and perfect systems such as the post responsibility system and the accountability system, and ensure that every task has arrangements, deployments, inspections and actual results. All leading cadres of the animal husbandry system shall innovate working methods, go deep into townships, and take the initiative to carry out work at breeding communities, breeding households and key project sites to solve practical problems, and in particular keep safety production and comprehensive environmental remediation firmly in mind and in hand, ensuring the completion of all targets and tasks.
4. Strengthen self-building. Consolidate the results of the “two studies, one action” learning and education, comprehensively implement the new requirements for strict party governance, vigorously grasp the ideological and political building of the leadership team and the work style and capacity building of the ranks, strictly implement all requirements for building party conduct and a clean government, further improve the supervision, assessment and evaluation system, and form a long-term mechanism for work style building. The broad ranks of animal husbandry cadres shall take “real action” as their responsibility and “strengthening animal husbandry” as their pursuit, devote their minds to undertaking work and starting businesses, base their work on seeking truth and being pragmatic, persist in putting the interests of service recipients first, solve difficult problems, do practical things and do good deeds, carry out all-round services for production, operation and processing units in aspects such as policy, technology, information, production and sales, and rights protection, and strive to advance in ranking and create first-class performance, ensuring the comprehensive completion of targets and tasks.