China: Jiuquan City, Gansu Province strives to improve the supply level of livestock and poultry breeds

Since the beginning of this year, Jiuquan City, Gansu Province has vigorously implemented a breeding project that combines the introduction of improved livestock and poultry breeds, pure breeding of breeding stock, and hybridization and improvement. It has focused on cultivating breeding farms, improvement points, and large-scale breeding farms, and continued to increase the introduction of breeding female livestock, young livestock, and poultry. The supply capacity of improved livestock and poultry has been continuously improved. Actively promote practical technologies such as the "three-level binary" hybridization of mutton sheep, the "Du Changda" hybrid production of live pigs, and the binary hybridization of Simmental beef cattle. In the first half of the year, the county (city, district) was guided to introduce 2.5791 million heads of livestock and poultry, including 1 cow. .84,000 heads of sheep, 199,700 ewes, 58,900 piglets, and 2,302,100 poultry. 257 mutton improvement ...