Development Of Fur Industry In Hebei: Opportunities And Challenges

According to rough statistics of Hebei fur industry association, last year, the fur animals (Fox, mink, raccoon and rabbit) were breeds 33 million breakthroughs, becoming the largest province of farming and marketing in China, with 500 thousand employees.

At present, a number of fur production and processing industrial clusters have been formed in Yangyuan, Da Ying, Xinji, Suning, and other places in Hebei Province, and the industrial chain from farming to nitrate dyeing to fur clothing and apparel has been formed. All kinds of high-end clothing are exported to all parts of the world, with an annual turnover of RMB 23 billion yuan.

He Guoying, President of the Hebei fur industry association, said that from the perspective of fur animal husbandry in the world, in recent years, many European countries have restricted and banned the breeding of fur animals because of the influence of high price labor force and animal rights protection consciousness.

China is a large agricultural country. The Chinese government supports and encourages the development of aquaculture. The majority of farmers have high enthusiasm for fur animal breeding.

As a large province of fur animal breeding, Hebei has not only the climatic conditions for developing fur animal breeding industry, such as long winter time, low temperature and abundant cold resources, but also has geographical advantages and market advantages around Beijing, Tianjin and Tangshan. It is predicted that fur breeding in the next 5-10 years will be in a rapid development stage.

From the perspective of fur processing industry, fur processing industry has been pferred from western countries to mainland China through the influence of high price labor force, and gradually formed a regional fur processing base and wholesale market, such as Tai camp, Tongxiang, Tong Er Bao, Xinji, Suning and other places.

He Guoying said, first of all, in the field of aquaculture, there has always been a phenomenon of "three neglect": neglect of selection and breeding, and no individual pedigree has established a complete pedigree file. There have been random mating, inbreeding, variety degeneration and so on. Neglect of the importance of disease prevention and control, fur animals' requirements for feed and environmental conditions are very strict, and ignorance of feed formulation knowledge and so on.

At present, many feedlot farms in China feed and feed randomly, resulting in serious and poor quality of the skin.

Secondly, in the field of leather processing, the main problems are improper slaughtering methods, causing skin loss and hair loss. In the field of leather sales, it is mainly based on primitive and backward peddlers, which form a system and industry that breed fur animals, including farming, processing, clothing production, and internal and external sales.

In the field of fur clothing for terminal products, many enterprises are small in scale, low in efficiency, and many in processing enterprises; lack of R & D, design and innovation, lack of understanding of the international fur clothing trends and industry information; low management level, high energy consumption and high pollution; no independent intellectual property rights and their own brands become others' processing plants; for industry, there is no uniform industry standard and lack of reciprocal communication with fur industry in the world.

These problems have seriously hindered the development of enterprises and industries.

As the first provincial fur industry association, Liu Yi, the first Secretary General of the association, was not delighted with the rapid expansion of the scale.

She said that although the association has dual functions of industry management and social service, its focus is on social services.

Now a great part of the energy of the association is to answer various questions raised by farmers.

She said that from the perspective of the whole province and the whole industry, the current breeding link should be the most concerned, because only stable and high-quality leather goods will have a good processing and export market.

First of all, because of the good market in recent years, many farmers have invested in fur animal farming.

However, many people fail to pass the technology and the information is blocked.

There are few channels for farmers to receive technical training, so she appealed to relevant departments and related enterprises to do more technical training for farmers.

At present, the fur industry association of Hebei province is now co operating with a number of relevant enterprises, grass-roots associations and experts from both inside and outside the province to carry out "100 technical training into grass-roots" activities, and strive to do more work for farmers.

Liu Yi suggested that farmers in Hebei should not only strengthen their feeding and management, but also introduce timely improved varieties, while changing the situation of simply feeding a variety. Conditional selection of two to three varieties of foxes, raccoons and mink can be carried out to achieve intensive aquaculture and better resistance to market risks.

For farmers who want to engage in fur animal breeding, we must look at the market well, and carefully choose them according to their actual conditions. Do not blindly follow suit.