Farming-Pastoral Ecotone of Northern China Plays Important Role in Ensuring National Food Security

Subjects: Other Disciplines >> Synthetic discipline submitted time 2023-03-28 Cooperative journals: 《中国科学院院刊》

高树琴 段 瑞 王竑晟 李 昂 石 岳；景海春；方精云

Abstract： China enters into a new era with high demand for nutritional and healthy food, and hence needs to adjust the agricultural production system to balance cereal production and livestock farming. Between the years 2010-2019 the production of red meat and milk has fallen far behind the consumption demand, resulting in sourcing and import of large quantity of red meat and milk products from the international market. In comparison to the average consumption levels in Asia and global, China’s consumption will continue to grow in the future, presenting a great challenge to the goals of 85% self-sufficiency rate for beef and mutton and more than 70% for milk. The farming-pastoral ecotone (FPE) of northern China covers 655 thousand km2 and plays an essential role in livestock farming and enviromental protection. How to implement Grass-based Livestock Husbandry and achieve high quality sustainable development of this region is discussed. Four suggestions are proposed, namely, to take a top-down approach and make a national plan the development of Grass-based Livestock Husbandry in the region; to introduce genome-based breeding of forage crops by molecular modules; to strengthen the innovation in forage product processing technologies to improve the usage efficiency of forage raw materials; and to integrate livestock farming into the rural revitalization initiative for the establishment of featured towns and villages dominated by livestock industries.

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