… “With high-quality pasture as the basis, we can raise high-quality cattle and sheep.
Compared with some similar concentrates and straw feeds, the content of various nutrients in forage is significantly higher, and it is rich in vitamins and minerals, has a fragrant smell, and has excellent palatability. The growth and development of livestock can play a good role in promoting.
And because these new varieties of genetically modified forage have extremely strong vitality, they can still grow strongly no matter how harsh the growing environment is, and can be harvested multiple times in one growing season, and can also grow for many years. One planting can continue to harvest for many years. , farming management is more convenient, and various cost inputs can be saved at the same time.
Compared with hay and artificial feed, pasture contains richer nutrients, many of which are necessary for the growth of livestock. It can provide most of the nutrients needed for their growth and development, and its quality will also have an impact on the production of products. have a certain impact on the quality.
Generally speaking, Ningyao meat grown on Xianmu grass is more delicious, tastes better, and has higher nutritional content. Therefore, it is more popular with the market and consumers. For example, many beef and mutton raised with fresh pasture have better meat quality, so the price is higher than that of ordinary beef and mutton raised with concentrate and dry feed. Higher.
In addition, high-quality pasture can also improve the reproductive rate of cattle and sheep. Fresh pasture can provide sufficient energy and nutrients, which is beneficial to the health of cattle and sheep, making cattle and sheep in better shape and have stronger resistance. disease, thereby increasing their reproductive capacity.
Another point here is that cattle and sheep raised on pasture are less likely to get sick, so there is no need to inject more antibiotics, which makes these beef and mutton healthier and more beneficial to human health.
In addition, compared to spending money to buy a large amount of concentrates, such as soybeans, corn, other concentrates, and some straw hay feeds. The price of pasture is relatively cheaper.
At present, our domestic animal husbandry, whether it is raising sheep, cattle, pigs, chickens, ducks and geese, basically uses concentrates, such as the most common soybeans, corn, barley, sorghum, cassava, etc.
Except for a small part of them coming from domestic and foreign countries, most of them rely on foreign imports. The cost of importing grain for breeding is huge every year. We import 100 to 150 million tons of grain from overseas each year, including more than 100 million tons of soybeans.
Only a very small part of this amount of grain is used for food, and most of the rest is actually used to raise livestock and converted into meat.
The amount of money spent on this every year alone is not a small amount, and it is also vulnerable to fluctuations in overseas markets. It may even become a weapon and attack used by some great powers to check us or attack us.
Maybe they slightly adjust their policies, such as tightening export quotas, restricting exports to us, raising prices, etc., which will cause our domestic food and feed prices to skyrocket, causing the prices of livestock and poultry meat to increase significantly, which will have a negative impact on society and society. Serious impact on the economy.
So we have been seeking to solve this problem. We have also tried to plant soybeans and corn on a large scale in China to compete with other countries and fight soybean wars, but we have failed.
But we have never given up our efforts in this area and have been working hard.
There is a large amount of idle wasteland in the northwest region. If it can be utilized, the price of pasture will be very cheap, which will greatly reduce the cost of raising cattle and sheep.
Because this gene-edited super pasture has strong vitality and can adapt to extreme drought and desertification environments, herders can plant a piece of pasture for their cattle and sheep without investing too much cost and experience. Raised by grazing.
Local governments can also invest in planting and building large-scale pastures for local farmers or local herdsmen to graze.
Even if you don't raise cattle and sheep, but only use it to cultivate and grow pasture for sale to farmers, this is still a very good business, and its profits are very considerable. "
Looking at the world's major pastoral areas and areas with developed animal husbandry, as well as beef and mutton exporting countries and regions, they are all areas with conditions for animal husbandry.
For example, the world's major beef exporting countries, of course, needless to say, South Asia's Sanguo is an exception. It's not because the domestic grazing conditions are so good, it's simply because this country doesn't eat beef, so a large number of cattle are exported.
Other major beef exporting countries, such as our most common Australian cattle, American cattle, and beef from several South American countries, are all because their countries have very developed grazing conditions and very high-quality pastures.
For example, there are large areas of high-quality pasture in Wuxi and Meizhong, so large-scale grazing can be achieved. Australian cattle also benefit from the large areas of arid and semi-arid pasture in the country, so they are very suitable for cattle grazing.
The same is true for several countries in South America. They have very good grasslands in their own countries and naturally have very strong animal husbandry.
Of course, there are exceptions, such as Central Asia and the traditional livestock country in our north. Although they are also major livestock countries, they are still far behind the livestock industry of the previous countries.
There are many factors that influence this. The most important thing is that its economic foundation is weak and it has not developed its own commercial livestock industry.
Of course, it is also related to the breeding methods and varieties of these two regions and countries. Although these two countries and regions also raise cattle, they mainly raise sheep. In addition to Australian sheep, these two countries and regions are the most raised in the world.
Compared with beef, mutton is actually not more accepted by the public. For example, Western countries, the major meat-consuming countries and regions in the world, actually do not consume mutton very much, and it is difficult for the public to accept the smell of mutton itself.
Western sheep farming, including Australian sheep, is mainly used to harvest wool and use it for textiles, and the mutton is just incidental.
In addition to having very good grazing conditions, the major beef exporting countries and regions mentioned earlier are also because the agriculture in these countries and regions is very developed.
Whether it is rice, Austria, or South America, its agriculture is very developed and it is also one of the world's major food producers and exporters.
Therefore, in addition to exporting a large amount of rich grain, a large part of it is digested domestically and regionally, and most of it is used to raise livestock and poultry.
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