Hubei Province 2017 Key Work Points for Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine
I. Overall Approach
Thoroughly implement the decisions and arrangements of the central and provincial governments on rural and agricultural work, persist in using the new concepts of “innovation, coordination, green, openness and sharing” to lead new development in animal husbandry and veterinary medicine, focus on the goals of “ensuring supply, ensuring safety and ensuring ecology”, take supply-side structural reform of animal husbandry as the main line, and strive to improve comprehensive benefits and competitiveness; take safety and controllability as the guarantee, and strive to strengthen the implementation of measures for disease prevention and control and safety supervision of livestock products; take the in-depth advancement of green development of animal husbandry as the driving force, and strive to promote the integration of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries, and accelerate the building of modern animal husbandry.
II. Work Objectives
In 2017, the province's output of meat, eggs and milk shall remain stable, and the proportion of large-scale livestock and poultry farming and the resource utilization rate of manure from large-scale farms shall increase by more than 3 percentage points; ensure that no regional major animal epidemic and no major livestock product quality and safety incident occur.
III. Main Measures
(1) Adjust the structure and promote integrated industrial development.
1. For the adjustment of the planting and breeding structure, focus on forage grass. Establish the concept of “big agriculture, big food”, take “grain-to-forage” as the breakthrough, optimize the planting and breeding structure, enhance the development space of animal husbandry, promote the establishment of a new type of agriculture and animal husbandry structure that balances grain and forage and integrates planting and breeding, and promote the “double improvement” of the benefits of planting and breeding. Expand the planting area of high-quality forage grasses such as silage corn and alfalfa to meet the development of grain-saving and herbivorous livestock and poultry. In accordance with the principle of “determining grass by livestock, determining grass by sales”, in 2017, the demonstration planting area of silage corn shall be more than 50000 mu, and the demonstration planting area of alfalfa shall be more than 10000 mu. At the same time, promote and implement straw treatment technologies such as silage, yellow silage and micro-silage to increase the commercialization rate of forage grass.
2. For the adjustment of the livestock breed structure, focus on weak links. Adapt measures to local conditions, implement policies by region, increase policy guidance, attract social capital injection, strengthen scientific and technological support, consolidate the production foundation, make up for the weak link of insufficient production capacity of cattle and sheep, promote the sustainable and intensive development of grass-fed animal husbandry mainly based on cattle and sheep, and increase the proportion of grass-fed animal husbandry in the industry. Do a good job in the development of modern grass-based animal husbandry, expand the scope of implementation of the action to advance modern grassland animal husbandry in the south, and support the demonstration of production, processing and marketing of grass products. With beef cattle, mutton sheep and dairy cattle as the focus, continuously improve the comprehensive production capacity and market competitiveness of grass-fed animal husbandry, and achieve a steady increase of more than 3% in the inventories of beef cattle and sheep.
3. For the adjustment of the regional structure, focus on distinctive features. According to the requirements of environmental capacity, combination of agriculture and animal husbandry, smooth production and marketing, and circular development, coordinate the adjustment of the regional breeding layout. In plain areas, control quantity and improve quality of pigs and poultry, make full use of straw resources, and expand the scale of cattle and sheep barn feeding and fattening production. In hilly areas, increase the development of grassy hills and slopes and raise the effective carrying capacity. In mountainous areas, make full use of mountain resources, increase improvement efforts, and focus on building bases for supplying breeding stock of female cattle and sheep and bases for producing organic livestock and poultry products.
4. For the adjustment of the production and processing structure, focus on extension. Vigorously advocate and support the development of ecological breeding and tourism-oriented animal husbandry, and promote the integration of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries of animal husbandry. Increase efforts to seek policies and give full play to the supporting role of finance and insurance in animal husbandry, and strive to achieve a breakthrough in obtaining policy-based insurance for fattening pigs. Establish the concept of selling “meat” rather than “live livestock”, develop landscape animal husbandry, experience-based animal husbandry and catering-oriented animal husbandry, increase the proportion of livestock and poultry product processing, and continuously build the supply chain, extend the industrial chain and expand the value chain.
(2) Promote the comprehensive utilization of livestock and poultry manure and promote the green development of animal husbandry.
5. Improve the level of comprehensive utilization of manure. Carry out in depth the creation of demonstration counties for green development of animal husbandry, adhere to the principles of government support, enterprise as the main body and market-oriented operation, and build a new mechanism for the operation of comprehensive utilization of manure. Focus on supporting pilot projects for comprehensive utilization of livestock and poultry manure mainly oriented toward rural energy and agricultural organic fertilizer. According to the variety structure and area of the planting industry, adopt one policy for each farm, scientifically determine the total scale, and ensure the effective return of manure to the fields.
6. Do a good job in the transformation and upgrading toward scale and intensification. Support eligible large-scale livestock and poultry farms in carrying out standardized renovation, continue to carry out in depth the creation of standardized livestock and poultry breeding demonstration activities, focus on key links such as barn design, automatic feeding, environmental regulation and disease prevention and control, and promote the transformation from extensive and backward breeding methods to intelligent, automated and refined ones; promote the transformation from individual breeding entities to intensive and organized methods; from labor-intensive to capital-intensive; from merely focusing on output to placing equal emphasis on quality and efficiency; and from manure and urine pollution and the separation of agriculture and animal husbandry to green circular development. Strengthen the supervision and management of standardized demonstration farms, and guide them to play a radiating and driving role. Strengthen the application and promotion of modern technology, promote cost reduction and efficiency increase in the breeding industry, and upgrade its level.
7. Integrate models for comprehensive utilization of manure. Adhere to the general approach of combining agriculture and animal husbandry, balancing planting and breeding, and comprehensive utilization, explore and establish economically efficient and practical leading technical models for comprehensive utilization of manure, and begin with three emphases: emphasize source reduction and develop clean breeding; emphasize process control, support the construction of storage and transport facilities that keep “manure out of sight” and technologies such as microbial fermentation, and ensure the normal operation of facilities for comprehensive utilization of manure; emphasize end-of-pipe recycling, build a specialized technical team for comprehensive utilization of manure, and promote the local and nearby return of manure to the fields. Consolidate and expand the results of the two pilot models for comprehensive utilization of manure in Songzi City and Xishui County, and promptly summarize mature experience and models for livestock and poultry manure treatment.
(3) Focus on the two ends of “seed industry” and “processing” to upgrade the grade of livestock products.
8. Increase the coverage rate of improved breeds. Accelerate the development of the modern livestock and poultry seed industry, and give overall consideration to introduction, conservation and breed cultivation. Select about 20 provincial-level pig breeding farms for resource integration, explore joint breeding paths, and strengthen technical exchanges and training in pig breeding. Establish market-oriented beef cattle and mutton sheep breeding platforms, accelerate the pace of selection and breeding of poultry breeds, and build a breeding linkage mechanism for win-win and multi-win outcomes between enterprises and research institutes. Increase the protection and development of livestock and poultry germplasm resources. For germplasm resources included in the provincial protection list, in accordance with the requirements of “establishing one standardized conservation farm, relying on one expert team for technical support, and formulating one set of scientific conservation plans”, strengthen conservation work, strive to build Hubei into a first-class livestock and poultry seed industry base in the country, and comprehensively drive the transformation and upgrading of the province's animal husbandry.
9. Improve the level of processing and circulation. Continuously refine the processing techniques of livestock products, strengthen awareness of standards, move toward deep and refined development, and improve the overall processing grade; in product sales, move toward new sales formats such as e-commerce to meet consumer needs; in circulation and storage, move toward full-process cold chain to ensure product freshness. On the basis of vigorously promoting the certification of “three products and one label” products, enhance brand awareness, vigorously cultivate famous brand products in animal husbandry, and increase the brand market share. Aim at the middle- and high-end needs of the market, actively develop deeply processed products that are marketable and have high added value, increase product value and improve returns. Establish and improve a grading standard system for livestock products, improve product differentiation, realize high quality at a high price, and prevent the occurrence of the phenomenon of “bad money driving out good money”.
(4) Guard the bottom line of quality and safety, and increase supervision of livestock products.
10. Carry out in depth activities to excel and strive for the best in livestock product quality and safety. Strengthen leadership, comprehensively advance, keep a close eye on assessment, and truly create and truly strive. Promote the livestock product safety supervision model of “grid-based supervision, accountability traceable; normalized assessment, risks controllable; multi-dimensional services, safety guaranteeable”. Pay attention to daily assessment, increase sampling and inspection efforts to compare levels, increase investigation and handling efforts to compare results, and increase supervision efforts to compare responsibilities. Carry out the special action of “checking responsibilities, plugging loopholes, and strict supervision”, and persist in innovating mechanisms in source governance, hidden danger investigation and risk early warning, and promote them through demonstrations.
11. Effectively implement whole-process supervision. Establish and improve a quality and safety supervision system covering the whole process, all links and all elements. Strengthen the management of the veterinary and veterinary drug market, and advance the implementation of GSP-standardized operation of veterinary drugs and the standardized transformation of township veterinary diagnosis and treatment throughout the province. Take the standardization of purchase and sales ledgers of veterinary drug and feed operating enterprises as the breakthrough, strengthen market access management of animal husbandry inputs, and hold the source safety gate. For filed breeding farms, take the standardization of breeding archive records as the breakthrough, and keep a close watch on links such as the use of veterinary drugs and feed, prevention and control of major animal epidemics, and harmless treatment of dead livestock and poultry. Strictly implement the simultaneous testing of “lean meat powder” in pigs and slaughter quarantine, severely crack down on illegal slaughtering, prevent dead and diseased animals from flowing to the market, and hold the market safety gate.
12. Improve the construction of the harmless treatment system for dead livestock and poultry. Thoroughly implement the Implementation Opinions of the General Office of the Provincial People's Government on Accelerating the Establishment of a Harmless Treatment Mechanism for Dead Livestock and Poultry, and in light of the progress of the province's harmless treatment system construction, organize relevant counties, cities and districts in batches to apply the provincial supervision platform, and complete the establishment of the province's information system for supervision of harmless treatment of livestock and poultry. Ensure that in 2017 the province basically completes the establishment of a harmless collection and treatment system for dead livestock and poultry covering links such as raising, slaughtering, operation and transportation.
13. Focus on the management of the slaughter industry. Adhere to a problem-oriented approach, strengthen demonstration and guidance, strive to eliminate backward and excess slaughter capacity, make up for the weak links in the management of the slaughter industry, promote the healthy development of the slaughter industry and further improve the slaughter supervision system, and achieve supervision without blind spots and safety without loopholes. Do a good job in the promotion and demonstration of the Jiangling model of “centralized slaughtering, unified distribution and integrated operation” in 10 counties and cities such as Dawu, Yidu, Xuanen and Zhijiang. Continue to do a good job in implementing the List of Regulatory Responsibilities of Pig Slaughter Management Departments, the List of Primary Responsibilities of Designated Pig Slaughterhouses (Sites), and the five ledgers for pig entry into the plant, “lean meat powder” self-inspection, meat inspection, harmless treatment and meat leaving the plant. Deepen the “mine-clearing operation” for pig slaughter supervision.
(5) Highlight the key links of disease prevention and control to ensure public health safety.
14. Strengthen the management of animal vaccines. Do a good job in the planned application and allocation of compulsory immunization vaccines, and do a good job in the statistics and verification of the actual use of epidemic prevention materials throughout the year. Take the comprehensive advancement of the vaccine management information system as the driving force, continue to advance immunization archive records and vaccine empty bottle recycling, and promote the standardization of vaccine management.
15. Comprehensively implement basic immunization. Strengthen technical training in epidemic prevention, and explore a new method combining concentrated immunization in spring and autumn with year-round immunization. Carry out inspection and supervision of spring and autumn prevention and evaluation of immunization effects, and ensure that the basic immunization density for 6 major animal epidemics such as avian influenza and foot-and-mouth disease reaches 100%, and the qualified rate of herd antibodies reaches the standards of the Ministry of Agriculture. Expand the scope of animal epidemic monitoring, increase epidemiological investigation efforts, assess the epidemic situation in a timely manner, and achieve planning first and prevention and control ahead.
16. Carry out in depth actions to purify animal epidemics. Carry out purification of key epidemics in breeding livestock and poultry farms, and promote epidemic purification and biosafety isolation zone construction in large-scale farms. Increase the province's efforts in brucellosis purification to ensure that the purification work shows results. Strengthen the capacity and technical team building of city- and county-level veterinary laboratories, optimize the operating mechanism, and improve the overall level of prevention and control work.
17. Explore new mechanisms for epidemic prevention reform. Encourage innovation in animal epidemic prevention mechanisms and promote pilot work on the professionalization of epidemic prevention teams. Explore the effectiveness of the “vaccinate first, subsidize later” pilot, identify existing problems, and put forward measures and suggestions for further improving the pilot work.
(6) Fulfill duties and change work style to improve service and management levels.
18. Do a good job in informatization construction. Further improve the level of informatization development of the province's animal husbandry, focus on implementing the informatization project of animal husbandry, and take “Internet++” as an important carrier for promoting the upgrading of production methods, business models and management methods of animal husbandry. Focus on the construction of the province's animal husbandry informatization platform, build and improve the province's video conferencing system, and extend the province's information service platform to counties and cities. Build the Hubei Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine portal website well, and better guide public opinion on animal husbandry.
19. Strengthen project performance management. According to the requirements of project internal control and fund management, formulate and improve relevant performance management systems, clarify the primary responsibilities, daily supervision responsibilities and implementation supervision responsibilities of project construction, and gradually establish a responsibility system with clear responsibilities at each level, pressure transmitted at each level, and multi-party coordinated management. Strengthen project performance evaluation and special audits. For projects with poor performance and many existing problems, urge rectification and implementation, and strictly pursue accountability and effectiveness.
20. Vigorously improve the construction of government conduct and industry conduct. Always place work style construction in a prominent position in the construction of the province's animal husbandry system, and grasp it regularly, over the long term and strictly. Strengthen the “four consciousnesses”, do a good job in implementing the “two responsibilities”, and promote the continuous deepening of diligent and clean government construction. Continue to carry out demonstration activities of setting up pilot points at the grassroots level, encourage innovation and entrepreneurship, seek truth and be pragmatic, have a bit more deep thinking and a bit less empty talk; a bit more self-reflection on problems and a bit less self-congratulation; a bit more innovative thinking and a bit less stale experience; a bit more tempered insight and a bit less endless nonsense, pursue work results, innovate thinking, activate enthusiasm, and improve the capacity of the province's animal husbandry and veterinary medicine system.