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XINCHENG, China, Nov. 25, 2022 /Xinhua=KYODO JBN/--

Cattle breeding is one of the main industries for poverty alleviation in

Xincheng, Guangxi. For the past few years, Xincheng County has ramped up

efforts to carry out the strategy of "enhancing agricultural steadiness" and

supported and mobilized the mass to develop cattle breeding industry. This

consolidates the achievements in poverty alleviation, injects impetus to rural

revitalization, and pushes forward high-quality county economic development. In

the first half of this year, the gross production value of this county shows a

year-on-year growth of 3.3%, and the value for agriculture, animal husbandry

and fishery a year-on-year growth of 5.3%.

Acting according to local conditions and stepping up upgradation in industrial

transformation

Xincheng County, located in mountainous area stricken by stony desertification,

is bad in geographical condition and weak in industry foundation. Wei Meng,

secretary of Xincheng County Committee, says that the county gives priority to

extending the cattle industry chain, strengthening cattle-leading industries

and enhancing added value of the cattle industry to make progress in rural

revitalization.

In recent years, Xincheng County, grounding its effort in advantage in featured

industry, has adopted the development pattern led by leading enterprises,

cooperatives, producing bases and farmer households and put in place 'Cattle

City in Southern China', a project for the whole industry chain, with total

investment value of RMB 1.428 billion. Also, with Silian town as the core

region, a full industry chain comprised of a butchery, a marketing center,

cold-chain logistics and 5 farming bases has been built. It covers all the

towns and administrative villages, stepping up the upgradation of industrial

transformation.

Enhancing revenue and living better life through higher yield

Xincheng County has opened up new channels for increasing revenue, including

land conversion, planting pasture, cow breeding in every farmer household, and

centralized fat cow breeding through cooperatives, which helps the mass to live

a better life.

Also, the cooperatives and farmer households can gain capital through loan

pattern for cattle breeding, which is comprised of enterprise guarantee,

bonding company, bank, and cooperatives or households. Services in technology,

marketing and training are provided by the enterprises. Every cooperative can

raise and market 300-800 fat cows a year and gain the minimum dividend of over

RMB 3,000. Also, every farmer household can feed and raise 5-20 cows, each of

which can bring the profit of more than RMB 6,000. Households who do not have

place for cattle breeding can use leased land for pasture planting, growing and

harvesting or can help the producing bases and cooperatives to bring up the

cattle, with average revenue per month RMB 2,500 - 3,000.

In Xincheng County, led by 'Cattle City in Southern China', it is estimated

that 100,000 plus beef cattle can be reared in a year. Also, more than 10,000

households will breed cows, and over 7,000 farmers will invest in planting

pasture, with average annual revenue for each household over RMB 30,000 and for

each cooperative more than RMB 900,000.

Interconnected interest booms the rural collective economy

For the past few years, Xincheng County has found through trial and error and

established the interest mechanism connecting the group and each farm

household, and the cattle economy in towns and administrative villages has

flourished. Meanwhile, distribution mode featuring minimum interest and

dividend redistribution has been adopted, which ensures that fruitful results

rural collective economy gains can be brought to all people in the villages.

Additionally, based on the preferential policy, cooperation between Guangxi and

Guangdong, targeted assistance and other advantages, Xincheng County has made

progress in building the clustered assistance system and expanded the

investment in the assistance, which develops the rural collective economy with

'Cattle City in Southern China' and other full-industry-chain projects. In

2021, the total rural collective economic revenue in the county reached around

RMB 23.2031 million. It is projected to witness a year-on-year increase of more

than 7% this year.

For the next step, Xincheng County will try to build business area for the full

industry chain of the 'Cattle City in Southern China', and products will be

sold to Guangdong, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Chongqing, Hunan and other

proximal provinces and regions, making this specialized county region city more

renown to other regions.

Source: The Publicity Department of Xincheng County

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   Caption: In Lianjiang Breeding Base of the Poverty Alleviation Project of the "Southern

Cattle City" Whole Industry Chain, cattle are leisurely eating grass.