China News Service, Xining, August 22 (Sun Rui) "The Xiangride Livestock Trading Market in Dulan County was officially completed and put into operation on August 20, providing information exchange, complementary advantages, and promoting the development of animal husbandry in the Qaidam Basin. A high-quality service platform has been built to fill the gap in the large-scale livestock trading market in the prefecture, broaden the distribution channels of agricultural and livestock products, increase the income of farmers and herdsmen, and radiate the overall development of the surrounding animal husbandry." Xiangride Livestock, Dulan County, Qinghai Province Ma Hailin, head of the trading market, told reporters on the 21st.
Haixi Prefecture is located in the hinterland of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The main part of the state is the Qaidam Basin, known as China’s "Treasure Basin". It covers an area of about 265,000 square kilometers. Rich green organic agricultural and livestock products such as beef, mutton and quinoa.
Among them, Dulan County has a total grassland area of 41.482 million acres and a usable pasture area of 23.313 million acres. It is one of the largest counties of animal husbandry resources in Qinghai Province.
According to Zhang Shengfeng, deputy director of Dulan County Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Rural Revitalization Bureau, the trading market covers an area of 20,000 square meters and is located on the west side of 109 National Road in Xiangride Town, an important town in the central part of Dulan County. Breeding cooperatives, forage trading markets, and manure treatment plants have complete supporting facilities and high-quality service functions.
The completion and commissioning of the Xiangri De Live Animal Trading Market will play a positive role in promoting the rapid development of the county's animal husbandry.
Ma Hailin said that livestock income is an important source of income for local farmers and herdsmen. Although the local people have rich experience in cattle and sheep breeding, trafficking and live animal trading, live animal resources and traditional animal husbandry are due to the spontaneous, spontaneous, local cattle and sheep trading in the past. Disorganized, disorderly, backward trading methods, low market management, and disease-free quarantine conditions have severely affected the trade circulation of live animals and livestock products within the county and the sustainable and healthy development of animal husbandry.
In view of this, in order to vigorously promote the circulation of agricultural and livestock products in the region and create a green organic agricultural and livestock product export area, construction of the Xiangride Livestock Market in Lanxian County will start in 2020, which is also the largest live livestock trading market in the Qaidam Basin.
"On the first day of the market, the Xiangride Livestock Market in Dulan County completed a total of 4 carts of 1,300 sheep, all of which were shipped to the Hotan area of Xinjiang." Ma Hailin said that in the future, the daily trading volume is expected to be between 1,000 and 1,500. Only, in the peak season in September, the daily transaction volume is expected to reach more than 3000.
Song Haisheng, Deputy Magistrate of Dulan County Government, said, “I hope that Xiangride Livestock Trading Market will strengthen management, standardize operation, operate with integrity, and considerate service in the future development, relying on advanced management concepts and first-class service standards to win more At the same time, through joint efforts to create a public brand of agricultural and livestock products of “Ecological Qinghai, Green Agriculture and Animal Husbandry”, promote standardized and green production of agricultural and livestock products, high-quality and characteristic output, and turn Dulan into the Qaidam Basin with high quality , A place for exporting green organic agricultural and livestock products with good efficiency and strong competitiveness.” (End)