Chinanews.com, February 24th. The General Office of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs recently issued the "Points of Work on Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine in 2020" (hereinafter referred to as the "Points of Work"). The "Key Points of Work" are clear, to accelerate the recovery and development of pig production, continue to do a good job in preventing and controlling African swine fever, keep an eye on key areas and key links, and implement monitoring and inspection measures, cleaning and disinfection, transportation supervision, and banning kitchen waste. Ensure that the epidemic does not rebound.

Data Map: Supermarket employees are decomposing pork for the people. Photo by Zhang Yun

In "The Essentials of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Work 2020", the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs specified the following aspects:

Speed ​​up pig production. Resume development and promote the implementation of responsibilities and the implementation of policies, focusing on the implementation of supporting policies such as breeding land, pilot EIA notification commitment system, mortgage loan pilot, large-scale farm construction subsidies, loan discounts, and improved seed subsidies. Strengthen production monitoring and market guidance, strengthen follow-up monitoring of pig slaughtering links, and implement full coverage monthly scheduling for all slaughtering enterprises. Strengthen technical guidance and services. Continue to do a good job of preventing and controlling African swine fever, and timely and fully pay the compulsory culling subsidy. Strictly check the clues of reporting the African swine fever epidemic to prevent concealment and omission.

Ensure that the resource utilization of livestock and poultry waste is completed. Promote the return of livestock and poultry manure to the field, continue to promote the use of fertilizers, ensure that the comprehensive utilization rate reaches more than 75%, and that the scale of facilities and equipment for large-scale farms reaches more than 95%. Strengthen policy implementation supervision and performance evaluation, and conduct performance evaluation of livestock and poultry manure resource utilization in 2019. Improve the harmless treatment system for sick and dead livestock and poultry.

Vigorously promote the transformation and upgrading of animal husbandry. Support the development of standardized large-scale breeding, and create a number of national benchmarking demonstration sites to summarize a number of typical models that can be replicated and promoted. Actively promote the adjustment of planting and breeding structure. Solidly promote the comprehensive revitalization of the dairy industry. Promote the quality and efficiency of the feed and veterinary medicine industry. Promote the transformation and upgrading of the slaughtering industry, strictly approve the establishment of new pig slaughtering enterprises, and give priority to supporting the establishment of large-scale slaughtering plants; deepen the rectification of small-scale slaughterhouses to ensure that the number of small-scale slaughterhouses only decreases.

Strengthen capacity building for animal epidemic prevention and control. Strengthen the construction of animal epidemic prevention systems. Strengthen the control of priority diseases. Implement regional management and purification of animal diseases. Strengthen supervision of law enforcement and biosafety management.

Continue to strengthen quality and safety supervision. Strengthen the quality and safety supervision of feed and veterinary drugs. Strengthen the supervision of quality and safety of raw milk. Strengthen the quality and safety supervision of the slaughtering industry, carry out joint law enforcement actions, and severely crack down on illegal use of "lean extract", private slaughtering, slaughtering and processing of sick and dead pigs, injection of water and medicine, etc., and severely investigate and punish illegal enterprises and individuals. Promote the reduction of veterinary drugs.

Do a good job of basic long-term work. Accelerate the construction of information technology in the animal husbandry industry. Strengthen scientific and technological support. Deepen international cooperation in animal husbandry and veterinary medicine. Effectively do a good job in the reform of decentralized service. Speed ​​up the process of legislation. Strengthen planning and leadership. Win the battle against poverty in the livestock industry. Strengthen the construction of political style. Cadres and staff of animal husbandry and veterinary departments at all levels have to be genuine and pragmatic, and resolutely put an end to "digital compliance" and concealment of omissions and reports of outbreaks; administer according to law and resolutely correct improper behaviors that restrict the normal circulation of pigs and their products in the name of "guarantee".