Key Work Points for Animal Husbandry in Inner Mongolia in 2017
2017 is a crucial year for fully implementing the autonomous region's “13th Five-Year Plan” for animal husbandry development, advancing supply-side structural reform in animal husbandry, and promoting the transformation and upgrading of animal husbandry. The overall approach to animal husbandry work is to practice the development concepts of “innovation, coordination, green, openness, and sharing,” thoroughly implement the spirit of Central Document No. 1 and the 10th Party Congress of the autonomous region, fully implement the arrangements of the region-wide rural and pastoral area work conference and the agriculture and animal husbandry work conference, deeply implement the strategy of “stabilizing sheep, increasing cattle, and expanding pigs and poultry,” take advancing supply-side structural reform in animal husbandry as the main line, take green development of animal husbandry as the orientation, take moderate-scale operation as the starting point, accelerate the transformation and upgrading of animal husbandry, improve the capacity to build green livestock product production bases, and promote the transformation of the region from a major animal husbandry region to a strong animal husbandry region.
I. Focus on Advancing Seed Industry Development
1. Cultivate and strengthen the cattle and sheep seed industry. Encourage bull stud stations to accelerate restructuring, adopt methods such as equity investment to make bull stud stations bigger and stronger, and enhance competitiveness. Organize the implementation of the national modern seed industry improvement project and the autonomous region's breeding sheep farm construction, carry out follow-up management and supervision of introduced breeding cows, and implement the construction tasks for 81 breeding sheep farms. Implement the livestock improved breed subsidy policy well, solidly carry out production performance testing and the selection of national-level core breeding farms, and enhance the capacity and quality of improved breed supply.
2. Strengthen the protection of livestock and poultry genetic resources. Increase the implementation of the cashmere goat breed conservation project, advance the construction of cashmere goat protection zones, and implement construction subsidies for 10 cashmere goat breed conservation farms. Implement the national livestock and poultry germplasm resource protection project, do a good job in building breed conservation farms, protection zones, and gene banks for local breeds, and actively strive to include protection funding for local breeds such as the Mongolian horse in the fiscal budget. Organize the re-election work of the autonomous region's livestock and poultry genetic resources committee.
3. Strengthen supervision of the breeding livestock and poultry market. Further promote law enforcement in the breeding livestock and poultry market by the autonomous region's animal husbandry workstation, carry out special inspections during the breeding livestock and poultry use period, severely crack down on illegal and irregular acts such as unlicensed operation and the sale of inferior breeding livestock and poultry, and achieve institutionalized and normalized law enforcement inspections. Implement the tiered approval and management responsibility system for breeding livestock and poultry farms, raise the entry threshold for breeding livestock and poultry farms, and improve the software and hardware levels of enterprise production and operation.
II. Focus on Advancing the Integration of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
4. Deepen the pilot of converting grain fields to forage. Focusing on major grain-producing areas, actively strive for “grain-to-forage” pilot projects, strive to expand the scale of “grain-to-forage,” and do a good job in the review and selection of pilot banners and counties. Strengthen performance assessment and technical guidance for pilot work, establish and improve the grain-to-forage management database, and strive to ensure pilot results. Increase policy publicity, guide pilot areas to carry out silage planting across “whole counties, whole townships, and whole villages,” and develop herbivorous animal husbandry.
5. Improve the development model integrating planting and breeding. Implement projects such as the “grain-to-forage” pilot and the planting-breeding integration pilot well, focus on supporting banners, counties, and districts with great potential for animal husbandry development, strong implementation efforts, and a willingness to take responsibility, and cultivate a group of major banners and counties for planting-breeding integrated animal husbandry. Support specialized large households, family pastures, and others in establishing farming and breeding models that integrate agriculture and animal husbandry, reasonably determine breeding scale and quantity, improve breeding levels and benefits, and promote circular development of agriculture and animal husbandry.
III. Deeply Implement the Strategy of “Stabilizing Sheep, Increasing Cattle, and Expanding Pigs and Poultry”
6. Optimize and adjust the planting and breeding structure. In grassland pastoral areas, seize the opportunity of the grassland animal husbandry development pilot, vigorously promote artificial grass planting, and improve the capacity for harvesting and storing grass. Optimize the allocation of grassland resources and the scale of cattle and sheep stocks, promote moderate-scale operation, and promote high quality and good prices for grassland beef and mutton. In major grain-producing areas, with counties as units, actively advance the exchange of primary and secondary roles between planting and breeding industries, vigorously promote the formation of a group of major livestock farming counties in agricultural areas, so as to continuously promote the development of livestock and poultry breeding, and promote the formation of a group of major livestock farming counties in agricultural areas, so as to continuously promote a new type of planting and breeding structure of “planting for breeding, farming for animal husbandry, conversion through the digestive tract, and circular agriculture and animal husbandry.”
7. Optimize and adjust the livestock species structure. Actively promote the revitalization and development of the dairy industry, continue to implement the action to revitalize the dairy industry through alfalfa development, “stabilize the number of head, raise per-unit yield, and reduce costs,” and improve the overall quality of the dairy industry; fully implement the plan for developing 10 million head of beef cattle, support “breeding in pastoral areas and raising in agricultural areas” and self-breeding and self-raising, accelerate the expansion of beef cattle herds and improvement of quality and efficiency; increase the transformation of mutton sheep production methods, stabilize stocks in pastoral areas, increase stocks in agricultural areas, and promote steady growth of mutton sheep.
8. Optimize and adjust the production layout of pigs and poultry. Actively guide major grain-producing areas to do a good job in planning the development of the pig and poultry industry, and build a group of high-standard, planting-breeding integrated, green development breeding bases according to the high standards of “large-scale, factory-based, and ecological” breeding. Pig farming in pastoral areas is not encouraged, and occupying basic grassland to develop pig and poultry breeding is prohibited.
IV. Focus on Advancing Green Development
9. Do a good job in building the grassland mutton brand. Increase efforts to cultivate grassland brands, implement the “Opinions on Strengthening the Promotion of the Construction of the Traceability System for the Entire Mutton Sheep Industry Chain in Pastoral Areas,” increase publicity and promotion efforts, guide pastoral areas to do a good job in the pilot work of the grassland mutton sheep traceability system, promote the formation of a grassland mutton brand, and increase the added value of mutton.
10. Do a good job in the resource utilization of livestock and poultry breeding waste. Implement the “Regulations on the Prevention and Control of Pollution from Large-Scale Livestock and Poultry Breeding” and the “Action Plan for Water Pollution Prevention and Control,” and guide localities to scientifically and reasonably delineate prohibited breeding zones in accordance with the “Technical Guide for Delineating Prohibited Breeding Zones for Livestock and Poultry Breeding.” Complete the delineation of prohibited breeding zones for livestock and poultry breeding by the end of June, and guide localities to do a good job in closing or relocating breeding farms within prohibited breeding zones. Establish a database for manure treatment and resource utilization of large-scale breeding farms, support large-scale breeding farms in improving manure treatment infrastructure, improve the level of equipment and facilities for manure treatment and utilization, and actively explore models for the resource utilization of manure and livestock and poultry feces.
11. Deepen the creation of demonstration counties for green development of animal husbandry. Organize applications for national-level green demonstration counties, promote the resource utilization of livestock and poultry manure, promote planting-breeding circulation, and demonstrate and drive the sustainable development of animal husbandry across the region.
12. Strictly supervise the quality and safety of raw milk. Earnestly implement the trinity regulatory mechanism of “administrative supervision, law enforcement inspection, and quality testing,” strictly review the qualification conditions of milk stations and transport vehicles, and implement dynamic and precise monitoring. Carry out special rectification of raw milk, increase supervisory sampling inspections of milk stations and transport vehicles, and severely crack down on illegal and irregular acts. Implement the raw milk quality and safety monitoring plan to ensure the quality and safety of raw milk.
V. Focus on Enhancing the Supporting Capacity for Industry Development
13. Earnestly do a good job in lambing and rearing. Go deep into the production front line to strengthen field research, organize animal husbandry technicians to guide farmers and herders in doing a good job in lambing and rearing. Strengthen the late-stage management of pregnant female livestock and the feeding management of young livestock, improve the level of scientific feeding management, increase the reproductive survival rate of livestock, and lay the foundation for a bumper animal husbandry harvest throughout the year.
14. Vigorously promote the transformation of breeding methods. Actively promote the construction of family pastures in pastoral areas and standardized large-scale breeding in agricultural areas, the development of business entities and business forms, and deeply carry out standardized demonstration creation activities for livestock and poultry breeding. Actively promote the improvement of large-scale breeding equipment levels and feeding management levels. Support and improve facilities and equipment such as automatic drinking, automatic feeding, and automatic manure cleaning in breeding farms, promote bulk feed bulk transport, develop the “factory-farm connection” model for feed and animal husbandry, and promote cost reduction and efficiency improvement in the animal husbandry industry and integrated industrial development.
15. Strengthen the capacity building for disaster prevention and mitigation. Continue to do a good job in building forage reserve capacity based mainly on household storage and supplemented by large emergency forage reserve warehouses, and improve the capacity for forage reserve supply; highlight the construction and upgrading of shed and pen facilities, focus on improving the level of warm shed construction for breeding female livestock, and further enhance the guarantee capacity for livestock to safely overwinter and pass spring; actively promote weather index insurance for mutton sheep breeding in pastoral areas, disperse meteorological disaster risks, reduce losses caused by disasters to breeders, and improve disaster prevention and mitigation capacity.
16. Strengthen technical support for animal husbandry. Give full play to the technical support role of the expert team, strengthen training and on-site guidance and other methods, and promote the formation of a group of technical models for cost reduction and efficiency improvement, green development, and circular utilization, such as healthy livestock and poultry breeding and resource utilization of livestock and poultry breeding waste.
VI. Focus on Enhancing Fine Management of the Industry
17. Strengthen industry monitoring, early warning, and forecasting. Regularly track and analyze the production situation, and organize joint consultations. Strengthen information reporting, promptly submit situation assessment information at key time points, and provide support for decision-making. Strengthen information disclosure and release, release early warning information in a timely manner, promote the normalization and dynamism of monitoring data release, and improve the ability to serve production and guide production.
18. Strengthen statistical monitoring of animal husbandry. Implement the registration and filing system for breeding farms, strengthen the registration system for the use of feed, feed additives, and veterinary drugs in breeding farms, do a good job in the investigation and registration of supporting construction of livestock and poultry manure treatment facilities in large-scale breeding farms, implement the linkage of registration and filing information with project funds, various subsidies, and financial and insurance services, and achieve interconnection of data such as statistical monitoring, administrative licensing, project management, and quality and safety supervision, and sharing of monitoring data and regulatory data. Do a good job in training information officers in leagues, cities, banners, and counties, increase data verification and notification efforts, and ensure data quality. Carry out performance assessment of data at grassroots monitoring points.
19. Strengthen follow-up research on industry development. Keep up with the needs of industry development, analyze prominent problems, deeply carry out special research, and focus on special research such as green development of grassland animal husbandry, green circular development integrating agriculture and animal husbandry, resource utilization of livestock and poultry breeding waste, financial services for animal husbandry, and “Internet++” animal husbandry, and propose feasible and effective solutions and policy recommendations.
VII. Focus on Strengthening the Implementation of Policies Benefiting Animal Husbandry
20. Increase the implementation of major projects. Do a good job in county-wide advancement projects under construction, such as “grain-to-forage,” major dairy farming counties, and pilot planting-breeding integration in major animal husbandry counties, carry out pilot project reserve work, formulate thorough plans, strengthen departmental coordination, and strengthen responsibility implementation, providing strong guarantees for organization and implementation.
21. Standardize project application management and subsidy distribution. Comprehensively implement the application procedure of “voluntary application by breeders, competitive application by banner and county agriculture and animal husbandry bureaus, expert review by leagues and cities, reserve entry into the database, project approval publicity, and completion acceptance,” ensure transparent operation, openness, fairness, and justice. Subsidy fund distribution shall follow the management procedure of “seeing the livestock, seeing the person, seeing the mark, seeing the certificate, and seeing the public notice,” strictly distribute through the “one-card” system, and effectively safeguard the interests of farmers and herders.
22. Strengthen supervision and management of project funds. Focusing on the modern seed industry improvement project, high-yield alfalfa area construction project, comprehensive utilization of rural breeding waste, and county-wide advancement pilot projects, organize special inspections of animal husbandry construction projects, select some already sampled projects to carry out “look back” reviews, and ensure that rectification of sampled projects is implemented in place. Organize special supervision of livestock improved breed subsidies, investigate and understand the use of improved breed subsidy funds, and ensure that policy funds are implemented without shrinkage or distortion.
23. Strengthen performance management of key projects. Establish and improve performance assessment methods for key projects, and achieve “account establishment” at the beginning of the year, “account inspection” in the middle of the year, and “account settlement” at the end of the year. Implement the linkage of performance evaluation results with local funds and projects, and gradually establish a scientific evaluation mechanism of “goal guidance, quantitative assessment, rewarding the excellent and punishing the poor, and incentivizing development.”
VIII. Focus on Strengthening Work Style, Conduct, and Ideological Capacity Building
25. Strengthen work style construction in animal husbandry. Actively organize publicity of the key work and highlights of animal husbandry, strengthen industry public opinion guidance and positive publicity, and create a good atmosphere for promoting the development of modern animal husbandry. Do a good job in implementing the supervision and handling matters of Party committees and governments, and promptly submit various important situation information. Do a good job in performance management, supervision, and handling of key projects, strengthen process management, and ensure projects achieve results.
26. Solidly carry out Party conduct and clean government construction. Always take the study and implementation of General Secretary Xi Jinping's series of important speeches on the development of “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” and the spirit of the Sixth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Party as a political task, firmly establish the “four consciousnesses,” and effectively strengthen ideological and political construction. Earnestly perform the “one post, three responsibilities” and “three important and one large” systems, and establish a good image of being pragmatic, honest, and clean for the people. Vigorously advocate wanting to do things, daring to do things, and being able to accomplish things, and enhance industry management capacity.