The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs announced yesterday (18th) that my country's core livestock and poultry seed self-sufficiency rate exceeded 75%. It provides strong support for the stable and safe supply of important agricultural products such as meat, eggs and milk in my country.
This year is the third year since my country launched the "Seed Industry Revitalization Action". Over the past two years, all regions have fully implemented the five major actions of germplasm resource protection and utilization, innovation and research, enterprise support, base improvement, and market purification, and have made breakthrough progress and a number of landmark achievements. Especially in the livestock and poultry seed industry, the resource protection system has been improved, providing strong support for the high-quality development of animal husbandry.
330,000 new genetic materials were collected, and 34 local varieties such as the Henan West Black Pig were newly discovered.
Xie Yan, the second-level inspector of the Seed Management Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs: A number of rare and endangered resources such as the Hetao Big Ear Pig and Zhangmu Cattle were rescued and protected.
Xie Yan introduced that my country has made breakthroughs in key technologies and major varieties in the seed industry, and independently cultivated a number of excellent varieties such as white-feathered broilers and West China cattle. At the 2023 Livestock and Poultry Seed Industry Development Forum, which closed on the 18th, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs announced a batch of new livestock and poultry varieties and new genetic resources that have been newly approved and identified.
In addition, the backbone force of my country's seed industry revitalization, marked by the construction and cultivation of the national seed industry enterprise formation, has also been initially formed. 69 crop, 86 livestock and poultry, and 121 aquatic seed companies have been selected, and a national seed industry enterprise formation of "solving problems, making up for shortcomings, and strengthening advantages" has been initially established.