The Production Situation And Development Countermeasures Of Mutton Sheep In Gansu Anxi

Sheep industry is one of the main industries in Anxi county. This paper analyses the mutton sheep production situation and development trends. There are many problems in sheep production in Anxi county: old management, serious degeneration of grassland, unreasonable sheep structure, and out-of-date mutton processing procedure. Eight suggestions raised for the future development of mutton sheep industry in Anxi, on the basis of the advantages feed resources, local feature and structure regulation and current production situation in Anxi: 1.decide developing goal to accelerate commodity lamb production; 2.choose a reasonable production mold to promote the amplification of the population scale; 3.utilize feed resources reasonably to increase feed utility rate; 4.introduce high quality breeds to produce new breeds; 5.popularize indoor sheep production and raise scientific breeding level; 6.accomplish disease control and prevent system to insure safe production; 7.change management method to industrialize sheep production; 8. reinforce technical training to improve science and technological quality of the fanner.