China: Jiuquan City, Gansu Province vigorously develops high-quality forage grass planting to lay a solid foundation for the development of animal husbandry

Since the beginning of this year, Jiuquan City, Gansu Province has aimed to ensure the supply of forage grass for herbivorous livestock and develop green animal husbandry. High-yield forage grass, promote processing technologies such as whole-plant corn silage, straw rubbing, crushing, and puffing, and improve the utilization of straw as feed. 5 newly built alfalfa planting areas with an area of more than 1,000 mu, and 5 demonstration sites for planting corn forage with an area of more than 1,000 mu. In half a year, according to statistics, the area of artificial grass in Jiuquan City reached 1.08 million mu, and the planting area of forage grass in Jiuquan City increased steadily compared with the previous year. Among them, the planting area of alfalfa reached 600,000 mu, forage corn reached 230,000 mu, 250,000 mu of other forage grass. The level of feed utilization in Jiuquan City has been further improved. Large-scale cattle and sheep and other herbivorous livestock farms ...