XINCHENG COUNTY BOOSTS EFFORTS TO DEVELOP CATTLE BREEDING INDUSTRY

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 25 (Bernama) -- Xincheng County has ramped up efforts to carry out the strategy of "enhancing agricultural steadiness" over the past few years to support and mobilise the mass to develop the cattle breeding industry.

“This consolidates the achievements in poverty alleviation, injects impetus to rural revitalisation, and pushes forward high-quality county economic development,” according to the Publicity Department of Xincheng County in a statement.

In the first half of this year, the gross production value of this county showed a year-on-year (y-o-y) growth of 3.3 per cent, and the value for agriculture, animal husbandry and fishery expanded 5.3 per cent y-o-y.

Xincheng County Committee secretary Wei Meng said that the county has given priority to extend the cattle industry chain, strengthen the cattle-leading industries and enhance the added value of the cattle industry to make progress in rural revitalisation.

In recent years, Xincheng County, grounding its effort in advantage in the featured industry, has adopted the development pattern led by leading enterprises, cooperatives, producing bases, and farmer households, and put in place a 'Cattle City in Southern China', a project for the whole industry chain with total investment value of 1.428 billion renminbi (100 renminbi=RM62.30).

Xincheng County has also opened up new channels for increasing revenue, including land conversion, planting pasture, cow breeding in every farmer household, and centralised fat cow breeding through cooperatives, which help the mass to live a better life.

For the past few years, Xincheng County has found through trial and error and established the interest mechanism connecting the group and each farm household, and the cattle economy in towns and administrative villages has flourished.

Xincheng County will try to build business area for the full industry chain of the Cattle City in Southern China, and products will be sold to Guangdong, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Chongqing, Hunan, and other proximal provinces and regions, making this specialised county region city more renown to other regions.

-- BERNAMA