West Ujimqin Grassland Animal Husbandry

In recent years, the development of pasture animal husbandry is confronted with many difficulties. This article attempts to study the conditions, the obstacles and the policies of sustainable development of pasture animal husbandry with the example of Mongolia West Took Mu Qinqi. Since the80's, Chinese scholars began to study the sustainable development of pasture animal husbandry and soon achieved fruitful results. In the meantime, this study also gained much attention in the abroad. In this paper, we made qualitative and quantitative research which includes field research and comprehensive analysis research, backing by related theories in the field of grassland animal husbandry, ecology, environment resources economy and etc.The problems faced by the sustainable development of grassland animal husbandry can be divided into vertical and horizontal. The vertical means the history, current and future of animal husbandry development; the horizontal points to the problems that confronted by the related industries such as population, resources, environment. The sustainable development of animal husbandry can be simply defined as a comprehensive productive force assisted by technology that can satisfies the needs of both the current population and the coming generations. Moreover the sustainable development should not be harm to the nature resources and ecology. Meanwhile the sustainable agricultural is a multidimensional concept. It contains all essential connotation of modernized agriculture. The sustainable animal husbandry is a key issue of sustainable agriculture. By study the West Took Mu Qinqi, there are5constrains of sustainable development:firstly, too extensive operation resulted in weak resilience from nature calamities; secondly, grassland ecological environment is deteriorating seriously; thirdly, animal by-products is lack of commercialized operation, which leads to low added value; forth, the service system of animal husbandry should be improved; last by not least, the herders revenue increases slowly.Through analyzing the above five problems, it is found two basic conclusions. Firstly, the problems exist in West Took Mu Qinqi region are out of some nature constrains such as geographical remoteness, inconvenient transportation as well as human factors such as under-developed social system, low education level as well as conservative perception. Secondly, the key problem of West Took Mu Qinqi is to change the growth pattern, which means to shift attention from number and scale to quality and efficiency. To achieve this aim, system revolution and concept updating is prerequisite. Based on all above, we suggested several advices to the further development of West Took Mu Qinqi:1. Rational use grassland, rebuild and protect the grassland.2. Reinforce the infrastructure constructions of grassland.3. Further strengthen the construction of animal-by product base, develop the animal-by product processing plants to built advantageous lamb brand.4. Reinforce market building.5. Conduct livestock breed improvement and hybrid.6. Promote scientific and standardized development of the dairy industry.7. Further increase the investment of livestock industry to improve efficiency.