Yumen, Gansu guides migrants to develop facility-based livestock farming

Ma Wumail, a farmer from Group 2, Village 3 of the Dongxiang ethnic migrant township of Dushanzi in Yumen City, carefully tends the sheep in his greenhouse barn. Photo by Fang Yuan

    In recent years, Yumen City has actively guided migrants to vigorously develop facility-based livestock farming. At present, migrant townships such as Xiaojinwan, Liuhu and Dushanzi have built 1,262 facility-based livestock barns, raising 35,000 head of cattle and sheep, and 65% of the average income of migrant households in the city comes from facility-based livestock farming.