Key Work Points for the Hunan Aquaculture and Livestock Industry in 2017
The overall requirements for the province's aquaculture and livestock industry work in 2017 are: fully implement the series of major decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee, the State Council, the Provincial Party Committee, the Provincial Government and the Provincial Agriculture Commission on strengthening work related to “agriculture, rural areas and farmers”, follow the general tone of “stabilizing pigs, safeguarding poultry, promoting cattle and sheep, and developing famous, special and high-quality aquatic products”, take the supply-side structural reform of the aquaculture and livestock industry as the main line, take the promotion of “fine agriculture” as the requirement, take the building of high-quality livestock, poultry and aquatic product supply bases as the direction, transform the development mode and adjust the structure, accelerate the transformation and upgrading of the aquaculture and livestock industry, and comprehensively advance the modernization of the aquaculture and livestock industry with the goal of “high quality, high efficiency, emission reduction and income increase” and guided by “ecological breeding and green development”. Focus on the following work:
I. Improve the supply quality and efficiency of the livestock and fishery industries
1. Stabilize the pig and poultry industries. Consolidate the advantages of the pig industry, coordinate supply guarantee, safety guarantee and ecological guarantee, guide large-scale pig breeding to shift to areas such as western Hunan and southern Hunan with large environmental capacity and high output of feed grain (grass), and keep pork output stable at around 4.2 million tons. Encourage the development of under-forest breeding, with poultry slaughter reaching around 430 million birds. Support the development of moderately scaled breeding integrated with planting and breeding, and accelerate the transformation and upgrading of the pig industry.
2. Accelerate the development of the grass-based livestock industry. In accordance with the requirement of “stabilizing grain, optimizing cash crops and expanding forage”, promote the conversion of grain land to forage, implement the action to advance modern grassland animal husbandry in southern China, improve natural grassland, expand artificially planted forage, and promote the matching of forage and livestock. Explore the trial planting, trial use and verification of alternative forage cultivation in areas polluted by heavy metals. Continue to carry out cattle and sheep breed improvement, and expand the production of high-quality beef cattle and mutton sheep; explore the “household breeding, farm fattening” model, implement decentralized breeding of female livestock, carry out moderately scaled centralized fattening, and improve the comprehensive production capacity of beef and mutton. Vigorously develop suburban-type “low-temperature milk” industry.
3. Transform and develop ecological high-quality fisheries. Guide and urge all counties to complete aquaculture plans for water areas and mudflats, and compile fishery development plans for large and medium-sized reservoirs. Regulate reservoir aquaculture behavior and promote ecological aquaculture in reservoirs. Encourage the development of ecological fish and high-quality marketable fish. Implement the national policy on reforming fuel subsidies for motorized fishing vessels, increase funding support for fishery projects, and advance the construction of aquaculture infrastructure. Guide farmers to moderately reduce the area for conventional fish farming and increase the farming of high-quality specialty aquatic products. Newly develop 1 million mu of integrated rice-fishery farming. Increase aquatic product output to more than 2.75 million tons.
II. Accelerate the quality improvement and upgrading of the aquaculture and livestock industry
4. Improve the level of moderately scaled breeding. Promote the development models of “company + family farm” and “company + cooperative + family farm” such as Wens, New Wufeng and Jiahe, and develop new breeding entities that closely combine leading enterprises with scaled breeding. Give play to the demonstration and driving role of leading enterprises, support the development of new business entities such as family pastures and breeding professional cooperatives, and improve the degree of organization in breeding production. Within the year, the proportion of scaled pig breeding with an annual slaughter of more than 500 head will increase from 43% to 45%, and the proportions of scaled beef cattle and mutton sheep breeding will increase to 45% and 50% respectively.
5. Carry out standardized demonstration creation activities. Support the standardized renovation of scaled livestock and poultry farms and aquaculture ponds, support small and medium-sized farms and households in upgrading supporting facilities and equipment such as automatic drinking, automatic feeding and automatic manure cleaning, and improve breeding levels. Within the year, create 20 national-level and 30 provincial-level standardized livestock and poultry demonstration farms. Support the construction or renovation of 50 modern fishery demonstration bases; create 1 fishery healthy aquaculture demonstration county of the Ministry of Agriculture and 20 ministerial-level aquatic healthy aquaculture demonstration farms; increase the demonstration area of aquatic healthy aquaculture from 65% to 70%.
6. Cultivate and strengthen leading enterprises in the aquaculture and livestock industry. Focus on supporting a number of benchmark leading enterprises in advantageous industries such as pigs, poultry, beef cattle, dairy and feed. Develop and strengthen feed and meat processing enterprises, and comprehensively advance standardized management of feed quality and safety; support and guide scaled slaughtering enterprises to extend the industrial chain, advance integrated operation of breeding, slaughtering, processing, distribution and sales, promote the transformation and upgrading of the slaughtering industry, accelerate the integrated development of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries of the aquaculture and livestock industry, and strive to add within the year 1 feed enterprise with an annual output value exceeding 10 billion yuan and 3 pig slaughtering enterprises with an annual processing volume exceeding 300,000 head. Cultivate and strengthen a number of Hunan local characteristic enterprises integrating breeding production, fine breed breeding, deep processing and comprehensive utilization of waste, and encourage and support export-oriented leading breeding and processing enterprises to “go global”.
7. Advance the development of leisure livestock (fishery) industry. Focus on cultivating new forms of livestock and fishery industries such as family farms and leisure fishing grounds, carry out leisure fishery demonstration creation, and add 10 provincial and ministerial-level leisure fishery demonstration bases within the year. Support the development of ornamental fisheries such as koi, and encourage the construction of leisure fishing bases.
III. Continue to advance innovation-driven development
8. Advance the construction of the modern seed industry system. Implement genetic improvement plans for pigs, dairy cattle, beef cattle, mutton sheep and laying hens, carry out basic breeding work such as production performance testing, and build a number of seed industry brands. Accelerate the construction of the Hunan Pig Core Breeding Industrial Park project. Support leading enterprises in building large-scale boar stud stations, support the relocation of the provincial bull stud station, improve production conditions, and carry out joint breeding. Strengthen the breeding service team, implement the livestock improved breed subsidy policy, accelerate the popularization of artificial insemination technology, vigorously promote cold semen breeding technology for improved beef cattle breeds, and increase the coverage rate of improved beef cattle breeds by 2%. Increase the protection and development of local livestock and poultry genetic resources, and regulate the production and operation licenses of livestock and poultry breeding farms. Support the construction of the modern fishery seed industry system.
9. Advance research, development and extension of aquaculture and livestock industry science and technology. Centering on the goals of high yield and high efficiency and high quality and distinctive characteristics, consolidate extension institutions and strength, innovate the mechanisms and systems of scientific research and extension in the aquaculture and livestock industry, integrate scientific research resources in the breeding industry, strengthen cooperative development between research institutes and breeding enterprises, advance the construction of scientific and technological innovation alliances, and form a number of independently innovative technologies in major fields such as fine breed breeding, ecological healthy breeding, and energy conservation and environmental protection in breeding; guide and support all localities to determine “1+X” main promoted varieties and main promoted technologies according to local conditions, expand the coverage of “one village, one product” in main production areas, and strive for the province's contribution rate of science and technology in animal husbandry to reach 70% and in fisheries to reach 55%.
10. Advance the informatization construction of the aquaculture and livestock industry. Actively advance the “Internet+” action, accelerate the transformation of industry management methods, accelerate the construction of the Hunan livestock and fishery digital information platform and the construction of the quality and safety traceability and credit system for livestock, poultry and aquatic products; advance the construction of an aquaculture and livestock industry informatization system featuring data sharing and processing at the provincial and municipal levels and terminal applications at the county, township and enterprise levels, and explore the establishment of point-to-point data exchange methods for farms and households and feed enterprises. Strengthen industry monitoring and early warning, do a good job in training information officers at the provincial, municipal and county levels, increase data verification and notification, and ensure data quality. Regularly track and analyze industry conditions and strengthen joint consultation. Increase information reporting and public release, issue timely early warnings, and improve the ability to serve and guide production.
IV. Improve the level of sustainable development
11. Vigorously advance ecological breeding integrated with planting and breeding. Improve and perfect the green ecology-oriented policy support system. Deeply carry out the creation of “animal husbandry green development demonstration counties”. Focusing on major pig, cattle and sheep breeding counties, organize and carry out county-wide pilot projects for integrated planting and breeding. Promote ecological breeding models such as combining planting and breeding, combining forestry and animal husbandry, and combining animal husbandry and fishery, support family farms and forest and fruit bases in supporting the development of moderately scaled farms, and support moderately scaled farms in developing and utilizing surrounding agricultural and forestry land for planting production.
12. Continue to implement the special action for rectifying the breeding environment. Effectively consolidate the results of the withdrawal of scaled livestock and poultry breeding from the main stream of the Xiangjiang River. Implement the “Provisions on the Assessment of the Implementation of the Action Plan for Water Pollution Prevention and Control”, guide cities and counties to optimize regional layout according to environmental capacity, delimit prohibited livestock and poultry breeding zones in accordance with the law and science, and steadily and orderly advance withdrawal from breeding. Increase the intensity of withdrawal and demolition and rectification, and within the year fully complete the task of withdrawal and demolition of scaled livestock and poultry farms and specialized breeding households that must be closed or relocated in prohibited breeding zones; fully complete the tasks of the “Special Action for the Prevention and Control of Livestock and Poultry Breeding Pollution” and the “Special Action for Cleaning Up Net Enclosure Aquaculture in Rivers and Lakes” in the Dongting Lake area, strengthen source control, resolutely prevent rebound, and maintain the ecological security of the water environment in the lake area. Advance the special treatment action for breeding pollution in some large and medium-sized reservoirs; before the end of June, artificial aquaculture shall be prohibited in drinking water source reservoirs, and cages and pens for feeding aquaculture shall be dismantled; for non-drinking water source reservoirs, aquaculture shall be scientifically planned, and all artificial feeding cages exceeding the aquaculture capacity shall be dismantled; all scaled farms in the prohibited breeding zones within 500 meters on both banks of the main streams of reservoirs shall withdraw.
13. Implement the action plan for the resource utilization of breeding waste. Deeply advance the work of Yueyang County and other pilot counties of the Ministry of Agriculture for “county-wide advancement of the prevention and control of livestock and poultry and aquaculture breeding pollution in Dongting Lake” and “pilot counties for socialized services for the comprehensive utilization of livestock and poultry manure”, and explore the establishment of replicable, promotable and sustainable operation and management mechanisms. Accelerate the quality improvement and upgrading and renovation of scaled farms across the province, support scaled farms, manure treatment centers and socialized service organizations in building facilities and equipment for manure treatment and resource utilization such as biogas, water conservation, manure cleaning, and organic fertilizer production and processing, promote technical models of comprehensive manure utilization and planting-breeding circulation such as “fruit-biogas-livestock”, “vegetable-biogas-livestock” and “tea-biogas-livestock”, and the supporting proportion of facilities for the storage, treatment and utilization of manure in scaled livestock and poultry farms and the comprehensive utilization rate of livestock and poultry manure shall each reach more than 70%.
14. Comprehensively accelerate the construction of harmless treatment centers for dead livestock and poultry. Cities and prefectures shall issue plans for the construction of harmless treatment systems for dead livestock and poultry. Encourage major pig transfer-out counties and other major livestock and poultry breeding counties to jointly build harmless treatment centers or collection, storage and transfer centers for dead livestock and poultry across regions. Within the year, all cities other than Xiangtan, Zhangjiajie, Huaihua and Xiangxi shall build more than 2 county-level or cross-regional harmless treatment centers for dead livestock and poultry and their collection systems, the province's total shall reach more than 30, the harmless treatment rate of dead livestock and poultry shall reach 100%, and the resource utilization rate shall reach more than 40%.
15. Advance the protection of aquatic biological resources with Dongting Lake as the focus. Organize and carry out spring fishing bans in the main streams of Dongting Lake, the Yangtze River, the Pearl River and the Xiangjiang River and year-round fishing bans in the Changsha section of the Xiangjiang River, steadily advance seasonal fishing bans in the Zishui, Yuanshui, Lishui and their important tributaries, and steadily advance the comprehensive fishing ban in the Yangtze River aquatic biological protection zones. Carry out artificial fish release and proliferation activities, do a good job in the national unified fish release day activity on June 6, achieve full coverage of artificial fish release in all cities and counties across the province, and release about 1 billion fish fry and fingerlings throughout the year. Regulate the management of proliferation and release, strictly carry out fry quarantine, and carry out the construction of release demonstration bases at or above the provincial level. Comprehensively complete the issuance of the “three certificates in one”, help fishing fishermen transfer to other industries, and reduce fishing intensity in natural waters. Continue to carry out the Dongting Lake “Clean Lake Action” and special actions to clean up and rectify illegal fishing such as fishery-related “three-nos” vessels and “killer nets”, and strengthen the inspection of fishing vessels. Improve fishery law enforcement equipment, and equip a batch of drone patrol fishery law enforcement equipment. Strengthen the construction of aquatic biological protection zones, and strengthen the protection of aquatic wild animals such as finless porpoises and giant salamanders. Carry out fishery resource surveys and ecological environment monitoring and assessment, and advance the construction of fishery compensation mechanisms. Strengthen the standardized construction of fishery administration teams, and carry out the creation of fishery civilized law enforcement windows and safe fishery demonstration counties.
V. Implement the quality and safety project for livestock, poultry and aquatic products
16. Vigorously advance the standardization of the aquaculture and livestock industry. Formulate a batch of provincial technical regulations and local standards for the aquaculture and livestock industry. Deeply carry out the creation of provincial-level quality and safety demonstration counties for livestock, poultry and aquatic products and standardized pig breeding demonstration counties. Guide and support production enterprises and breeding professional cooperatives in applying for “three products and one label” certification, and cultivate and build high-quality livestock, poultry and aquatic product brands.
17. Strictly supervise product quality and safety. Advance “quality-driven breeding”, and adhere to grasping both “producing” and “managing” quality and safety with both hands and with firmness. Strengthen the treatment of production area environments, and advance standardized quality and safety management of feed and veterinary drugs. Strictly enforce quality and safety supervision and law enforcement, and crack down on illegal acts such as manufacturing and selling counterfeit products, illegal addition, and abuse of veterinary antibacterial drugs. Advance the construction of the quality and safety credit system. Advance the pilot work of the qualification certificate management for edible agricultural products, and do a good job in connecting production area market exit and market access. Promote the construction of municipal and county-level testing institutions, and carry out pilot construction of rapid testing systems for livestock, poultry and aquatic products in townships. Strengthen ministerial and provincial-level quality and safety monitoring of livestock, poultry and aquatic products and raw milk, and achieve a stable overall pass rate of more than 96% in monitoring major livestock, poultry and aquatic products.
18. Strengthen livestock and poultry slaughter supervision. Improve the slaughter supervision system and perfect the work coordination mechanism. Revise the management measures for the establishment of pig slaughterhouses, and start the research and formulation of management measures for the slaughter of livestock and poultry other than pigs. Strengthen daily supervision, implement rules and regulations such as the “Supervision and Inspection Specifications for Pig Slaughterhouses (Sites)”, establish a credit management system for slaughter enterprises, and urge slaughter enterprises to fulfill their main responsibilities. Strengthen special rectification, deeply carry out the “mine-clearing action” for pig slaughter supervision, and severely crack down on illegal acts such as slaughtering without a license, slaughtering dead pigs, and injecting water or other substances. Implement the subsidy policy for harmless treatment of diseased pigs in the slaughtering link, and manage and use subsidy funds well. Improve slaughter access management, and complete the province-wide review and cleanup of pig slaughter qualifications; advance standardized production of slaughter enterprises, and start the creation of standardized pig slaughterhouses.
19. Strengthen animal disease prevention and control. Comprehensively implement the “Measures of Hunan Province for the Implementation of the ‹Animal Epidemic Prevention Law of the People's Republic of China›”. Implement the national compulsory animal disease immunization plan, monitoring and epidemiological investigation plan, foot-and-mouth disease prevention and control plan, highly pathogenic avian influenza prevention and control plan, peste des petits ruminants eradication plan and H7N9 elimination plan. Implement comprehensive prevention and control measures focusing on compulsory immunization for major animal diseases such as avian influenza, strengthen the prevention and control of swine fever, Newcastle disease and highly pathogenic porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome, and coordinate the prevention and treatment of common diseases such as pig diarrhea. Vigorously carry out the purification of animal diseases in livestock and poultry breeding farms, advance the construction of biosafety isolation zones in scaled farms, and prevent the risk of introduction of exotic animal diseases. Implement and improve the fiscal support policies for animal epidemic prevention, and steadily advance “vaccinate first, subsidize later” for compulsory immunization; strengthen the core capacity building of veterinary institutions, and strengthen the training of veterinary personnel; explore government purchase of veterinary services, and advance the construction of a socialized veterinary service system. Maintain the year-round immunization density of livestock and poultry populations at more than 90% and the antibody pass rate for compulsory immunization diseases at more than 70%. Strengthen the prevention and control of aquatic biological diseases and the prevention and treatment of major zoonoses.
20. Strengthen veterinary health supervision and law enforcement. Further improve the informatization construction of animal health supervision, strictly enforce origin quarantine and slaughter quarantine, and comprehensively realize electronic issuance of animal quarantine certificates. Strengthen the supervision of cross-provincial movement of live livestock and poultry, carry out standardized construction of township animal epidemic prevention stations (quarantine declaration points), and advance the construction of animal identification and animal product traceability systems. Focus on handling cases such as animals that should be quarantined according to law but have not been quarantined, introduction of breeding (dairy) animals from other provinces without approval, and failure to report as required upon arrival of animals introduced from other provinces for feeding. Improve the harmless treatment system for dead livestock and poultry, severely crack down on illegal and criminal acts of arbitrarily abandoning dead livestock and poultry, strengthen the connection between animal health administrative law enforcement and criminal justice, and standardize case transfer procedures. Do a good job in the national practicing veterinarian qualification examination, and advance the informatized management of the province's veterinary team.
VI. Precisely advance industrial poverty alleviation
21. Precisely cultivate characteristic industries. Improve the plan for precise industrial poverty alleviation, take promoting income increase for poor households as the guide, “where pigs are suitable, raise pigs; where animal husbandry is suitable, raise livestock; where fisheries are suitable, raise fish”, and select and develop a batch of advantageous and characteristic breeding industries with large market potential, wide coverage, a development foundation and the driving force of leading enterprises. Implement the “one village, one product” industry advancement action in poor villages, integrate industrial development funds to support breeding production development and infrastructure construction, develop poverty alleviation industries such as integrated rice-fishery farming, beef cattle and mutton sheep breeding, and under-forest breeding, and support poverty alleviation development models driven by leading enterprises such as “company + poor households” and “cooperative + poor households”.
22. Advance the development of the aquaculture and livestock industry in poor areas as a whole. Organize and implement breeding training plans in poor areas. Support animal husbandry and fishery departments at all levels in running pilot demonstrations and driving development through typical examples. Support new business entities that are willing, capable and strong in driving capacity to expand the development scale of advantageous and characteristic breeding industries and establish stable driving relationships with poor households. Support poor areas in connecting with leading enterprises, actively introduce modern animal husbandry enterprises such as Wens, Jiahe, New Wufeng and Ziyuan, develop family farms and family pastures with the leading model of “leading enterprises linking farmers, breeding plus planting”, support poor areas in advancing breeding production as a whole, and give play to the leading position of the aquaculture and livestock industry in poverty alleviation industries.
VII. Strengthen work safeguards
23. Strengthen the implementation of work responsibilities. Establish a responsibility mechanism for the implementation of key work in the aquaculture and livestock industry, and clarify responsible leaders and responsible units. Animal husbandry and fishery departments at all levels shall plan scientifically, do relevant coordination work well, establish a ledger system for key work, track implementation progress in a timely manner, and achieve planning at the beginning of the year, scheduling in the middle of the year, assessment at the end of the year, and publicity at all times. Continue to implement the “four one-vote veto” system in the annual comprehensive target assessment for clean government construction, quality and safety, disease prevention and control, and safe production.
24. Innovate financial policies supporting breeding. Strive to increase policy-based insurance efforts, gradually increase the insurance coverage of major livestock, poultry and aquatic products in major animal husbandry and fishery counties, expand the scope of livestock insurance varieties and implementation areas, explore the establishment of an aquaculture insurance system, and support the development of insurance for characteristic livestock, poultry and fish products and breeding facility insurance. Coordinate and innovate the development of insurance products of “basic insurance + additional insurance” for new business entities, and explore the development of pig price insurance.
25. Strengthen safe production. Implement the safety supervision responsibility system of “those who manage the industry must manage safety, those who manage business must manage safety, those who manage production and operation must manage safety, and whoever is in charge is responsible”, implement the main responsibilities of each unit and enterprise and territorial management responsibilities, clarify the safety production power and responsibility lists of each department, and deeply advance the province-wide major inspection of safe production in the aquaculture and livestock industry. Improve the safety production responsibility assessment mechanism, and strictly enforce the safety production responsibility accountability system. Strengthen safety risk prevention in key areas such as feed and veterinary drug production enterprises, veterinary laboratories, fishing vessels and fishing ports.
26. Strengthen capacity and work style construction. With integrity, efficiency and fairness as the core, strengthen the construction of party conduct and clean government, implement “one post, dual responsibilities”, deeply carry out the “two studies, one action” learning and education and the special rectification of prominent problems in the use of funds for strengthening agriculture and benefiting farmers within the system; advance the construction of learning-oriented, efficiency-oriented, innovation-oriented, service-oriented, competition-oriented and integrity-oriented organs, and continuously improve the capacity to promote development, the capacity to administer according to law, and the capacity for continuous innovation.