Patterns And Systematic Techniques Of Mutton Sheep Production In Sheep And Goat's Farm Of Gansu

With the increasing of mutton consumption, sheep husbandry in the world begins to change from wool production to mutton production. Gansu, one of the most important provinces in raising sheep in China, is an important area of mutton-sheep production, especially lamb-mutton has been becoming more and more popular among consumers with its special flavor, such as fine fibre, few fat, easy digests, high nutrition and so on. So the mutton industry is a promising field in Gansu. In order to promote the level and benefit of mutton production, relieve the contradiction between the supply of breed sheep rams and its demands, meet the requirement of mutton market in Gansu, the best pattern of mutton production is established in Jingtai county by analyzing some application systems on Gansu animal farm, including sheep yard construction, feeding management, compound forage grass production, reproductive technologies and so on. There are some advantages in implementation of the pattern, for example, the development of lamb-industry will be sped up, the consumption of forage grass and the tension of winter and spring farm will be decreased, the good cycle of agricultural environment will be hastened, the full use of resource will be realized, and the balance between grass and animal will be kept. At the same time, this pattern can be popularized in some similar areas in Gansu. The best pattern of mutton production can be summarized as following aspects: (1) Constituting new-type sheep yards to speed up intensive mutton production in study area; (2) Founding the base to produce feed; (3) Extending the reproductive technologies to farmers and herders, for example, setting up 10 artificial insemination (AI) stations to provide breeding support for most people in some towns which have more sheep such as Jingtai and Jingyuan County; (4) Improving the systems of feeding and management. Some principal corporation such as Gansu animal farm, were managed by farm directors in the range of his authority under the leading of directorate. The pattern of "Corporation + farmer" is adopted as a mainly popularized pattern in study area. Cooperation contract including the supply of good breed, technique service, financial service, feed service, product sell and so on between corporation and farmer is signed not only to define their rights and obligations, but also to ensure the normal running of the project and the benefit between them.