Walking into Bao Dongbao’s home, a farmer in Bugacha, Hari Road, Bayanhushu Town, Horqin Right Wing Zhongqi, Xing ‘an League, Inner Mongolia, the calves in the shed are bright in color and strong in physique, which is particularly eye-catching. "These are pure Simmental cattle, and the market price is higher than that of ordinary cattle." Bao Dongbao said.
From the initial 50 local cattle to more than 130 Simmental cattle, Baodongbao has become a well-known local cattle raiser. His cattle are all improved breeds, and the quality is improved, so the price is naturally high. Bao Dongbao said that the introduction of the bull station project in the flag has saved him a lot of detours in raising cattle.
Keyouzhongqi is an important animal husbandry production base in Inner Mongolia, and beef cattle industry has always been a local traditional advantage industry. In recent years, Keyou Zhongqi has implemented the development idea of "eating eco-food, writing cattle articles, reading literature and traveling classics", and regarded beef cattle industry as a leading industry and a project to enrich the people, and promoted the development of the whole industrial chain of beef cattle, including breeding, fattening, improvement, forage, trading and processing.
In May, 2020, the cattle and sheep trading market of Hong ‘an Temple in Keyou Zhongqi opened for business, which not only built a good platform for local farmers to buy and sell livestock, but also attracted merchants from all over the country to purchase. By the end of October this year, the market had traded 325,000 cows, 3.47 billion yuan, and 1.912 million sheep, 1.62 billion yuan.
Wu Bagen, a farmer in Bugacha, Xiridao, Bayanhushu Town, is a representative of Keyou Zhongqi in developing beef cattle industry and driving people to get rich. He has been engaged in brokerage for more than ten years. He said that in the early years, buying cattle had to go to Tongliao, which was time-consuming, laborious and expensive. Now there is a local cattle and sheep trading market, which is much more convenient to buy and sell.
At the construction site of Huayang’s 200,000-ton cold chain logistics distribution and deep processing project, workers are busy installing production equipment. Zhang Xiaolong, general manager of Inner Mongolia Huayang Cattle Industry Technology Group Co., Ltd. told the reporter that after the project is put into production, it can form the production capacity of slaughtering 100,000 beef cattle, distributing 200,000 tons of beef and deeply processing 25,000 tons of beef.
Bao Yuting, deputy director of the Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Science and Technology Bureau of Keyou Zhongqi, said that after years of development, the number of local beef cattle has increased from 166,000 in 2018 to 407,600 now, with 30,000 cattle farmers and 400 cooperatives respectively. A number of leading enterprises have successfully settled down, and the stock of standardized and large-scale fattening beef cattle has grown steadily. In 2021, Keyou Zhongqi successfully entered the ranks of typical counties in the whole industrial chain of beef cattle in China.
Bao Yuting said that in the next step, Keyou Zhongqi will continue to focus on "making cattle articles", hold the "nose" of beef cattle industry development, and accelerate the construction of the whole beef cattle industry chain from forage, breeding and fattening to processing, logistics and catering, which will drive more farmers and herdsmen to increase their income and get rich.