Current Situation And Strategies Of Grassland Animal Husbandry Farming And Sustainable Development In Dangxiong Of Tibet

Dangxiong County lies on the north of Lasa, Tibet. It's a husbandry county with plenty of water, land, heat and other natural resources. The grassland covers 691,500 hektare areas of Dangxiong County. The amount of livestock on hand in Dangxiong is 538,700 head. The main livestock of Dangxiong County are Yak (192,600 head), sheep (221,100 head) and goat (117,600 head). In recent years, with the increase of the population, the grassland was degraded severely in many aspects: reduction of grass height, decline of the grassland productivity year by year, drought, increasing insects and mice disaster. The key factor restricting the development of grass industry are overloading, inadequate finance on grassland construction, lack of grassland monitoring and managing institution, increase of man-made harm on grassland, incomplete grassland extension service system, low productivity of Yak, sheep and goat, severe breed degradation, just empathise on improvement not on select breeding.To realize sustainable development of grass industry of Dangxiong County, the countermeasure were implemented, such as emphasizing on construction artificial grassland, extending grass industry chain, establishing scientific and reasonable regulations for grassland utilization, enhancing the level of integrative management and the financing on grassland construction, finding new ways to develop grass husbandry. By Yak, sheep and goat improvement, scientific livestock improvement and development measures erer proposed to realize the chanfes from quantity husbandry to efficient husbandry and ecological husbandry. Meanwhile, the Countermeasures were proposed to develop husbandry of Dangxiong County and finally realize grass-livestock balance and economic sustainable development of Dangxiong County. These Countermeasures are changing idea and setting the guide idea that both grass and livestock are important to develop husbandry; enhancing institution construction, managing grassland legally, fixing grassland usufruct, improving rewarded contract responsibility system for grass and livestock; the progress of grassland husbandry industrialization to enhance economical potentiality; implementing the policy of deciding the livestock by grass and grass-livestock baa lance; developing foundamental construction by collevtion fund in many ways; adjusting livestock herd structure; developing the base construction to prevent and resist matural disasters and enhance the resistant ability; strengthening the grassland protection works; carrying out fundamental and developmental research on grass-husbandry; establishing the natural protection areas.In recent years, by researching on scientic correlated with grass, based on the experiences of grass resources utilization, Dangxiong County government carried out Countermeasures to realize grass industry sustainable development. These Countermeasures include strengthening protection and reasonable utilization natural grassland, improving grassland ecological environment, construction artifical grassland, reducing pressure of liestock on grassland, enhancing excutive law, emphasizing grass science research and extendion, driving grass sustainable development by projects. The prevention contermeasures for grassland degradation as well as for grassland construction and management regulation were proposed. In all, to realize grassland sustainable development of Sangxiong, it was in need to enhance water facility construction, consrol population growth, prevent ocergrazing, implement division land and rotation grazing, improve grassland monitoring institution, realize grassland rewarded contract resoonsibility system, establish integrative grass industry system.