Regrettable, Today'S Yili Fine Wool Sheep

< p > > a href= "http://www.91se91.com/news/index_p.asp" > Yili < /a > Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture is located in the beautiful and fertile Yili Valley, where the water is abundant, the land is fertile, the grassland is vast, the pasture is plentiful, the suitable farming is suitable for herding, and is known as "the south of the Yangtze River".

For thousands of years, Yili has always been a godsend treasure for the steppe people. It is also one of the important birthplaces of grassland culture, and also the home of Xinjiang fine wool sheep.

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In the long history of more than 2000 years, the nomads such as Cypriot, Ukrainian, Turkic, zakhtai, Mongolia, Junggar and Mongolia have lived and multiplied and migrated on the grasslands of Yili, and bred local livestock and poultry products, such as Kazakh sheep and Xinjiang goats, which have unique systems.

After the founding of new China, a large number of excellent varieties were introduced to improve and breed the local varieties. The famous varieties of Xinjiang a href= "http://www.91se91.com/news/index_c.asp" > fine wool sheep < /a > and Chinese Merino sheep (Xinjiang type) were successively bred.

Since the beginning of 1990s, we have been constantly hearing the cry from the animal husbandry departments at all levels in the autonomous region: save Xinjiang fine wool sheep! The trend of Xinjiang fine wool sheep will not be curbed again, and the efforts of several generations will be wasted. < /p >

In the past 20 years, the time has passed. Today, we do not see that the Xinjiang fine wool sheep industry has regained its vitality. On the contrary, the decline of fine wool sheep and the breeding of fine breeds is more worrying.

At the same time, we also heard another voice from the main producing area of Xinjiang fine wool sheep, the Yili valley. It is better to comply with the domestic and international market trend instead of relying on administrative measures and government intervention to cultivate the fine wool sheep industry in Xinjiang.

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< p > Yili River Valley has vast natural grassland. It is recognized as the hometown of Xinjiang fine wool sheep.

As early as in the early twentieth Century, some fine wool sheep from Yili were introduced to improve the local indigenous sheep.

In 1980s, with the help of Soviet experts, the gunas sheep breeding farm was set up in Yili.

After the founding of new China, Yili's fine wool sheep have developed rapidly.

With the painstaking efforts of animal husbandry science and technology workers from all ethnic groups, the Australian Merino sheep was introduced from Australia, and a new fine wool sheep of Xinjiang (Merino (Xinjiang)) was produced in the middle of 1980s.

By the end of the 1980s, there were 2 million improved sheep in Yili Valley fine wool sheep. The fine wool output was more than 4 kilograms, and the fine wool produced more than 8000 tons.

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< p > at that time, 8 counties and 1 cities in Yili were listed as the key construction counties of fine wool sheep by autonomous regions. The fine fine wool sheep from the Gunes River continued to pport to all parts of Xinjiang, and the supply of local wool mills was in short supply, providing tens of millions of yuan tax revenue annually.

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< p > after the livestock price was put into operation in the pastoral area, the production enthusiasm of the herdsmen has been greatly mobilized. However, with the great changes in the livestock production and operation system, the governments at all levels and the animal husbandry departments in the planned economy era have greatly weakened the macro regulation and control of livestock varieties including fine wool sheep. The fine wool sheep in Yili began to change their varieties.

Since then, things are getting out of hand.

By the year 2008, the fine wool sheep in the Yili Valley had decreased from about 1800000 in 1990 to less than 1 million 700 thousand. 570 sheep breeding stations were well preserved in less than 200 seats. The number of artificial insemination in fine wool sheep has also decreased from 700 thousand to more than ten thousand a year.

In the short period of 20 years, the efforts made in the past half a century have almost completely offset the cultivation of fine wool sheep.

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< p > simply explain the decline phenomenon of fine wool sheep production in Yili valley from the perspective of < a href= "http://www.91se91.com/news/index_s.asp" > supply and demand < /a >.

According to relevant information, China's wool demand is about 350 thousand tons per year, while domestic fine wool can only meet 1/3 of the demand, and the remaining 2/3 depends on imports.

The supply of fine wool in China is in short supply, and the fine wool sheep industry in Yili Valley has gone from bad to worse. This economic phenomenon is really intriguing.

The domestic market of fine wool has huge market space. Why does Yili have a clear advantage in developing fine wool sheep? Why does it not leave a dead end in the fine wool sheep industry? Apart from the fact that the local fine wool sheep can not produce a real scale advantage and the level of raising and managing fine wool sheep is not high enough, the long-term profit gap of meat and wool price is undoubtedly the most direct cause of Yili farmers and herdsmen refusing to breed fine wool sheep.

The herdsmen have sufficient autonomy in the choice of sheep varieties, resulting in the decline of the fine wool sheep industry. The real difference between the two kinds of sheep is not enough.

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