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

Authors

Shuqin GAO, CAS Engineering Laboratory for Grass-based Livestock Husbandry, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
Rui DUAN, Bureau of Science and Technology for Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100864, China
Hongsheng WANG, Bureau of Science and Technology for Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100864, China
Ang LI, State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
Yue SHI, State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
Hai-Chun JING, CAS Engineering Laboratory for Grass-based Livestock Husbandry, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
Jingyun FANG, CAS Engineering Laboratory for Grass-based Livestock Husbandry, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China

Keywords

Grass-based Livestock Husbandry; farming-pastoral ecotone (FPE) of northern China; food security; ecological security

Document Type

High-quality Development of Grass-based Livestock Husbandry

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.

First page

643

Last Page

651

Language

Chinese

Publisher

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Recommended Citation

GAO, Shuqin; DUAN, Rui; WANG, Hongsheng; LI, Ang; SHI, Yue; JING, Hai-Chun; and FANG, Jingyun (2021) "Farming-pastoral Ecotone of Northern China Plays Important Role in Ensuring National Food Security," Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version): Vol. 36 : Iss. 6 , Article 5.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.16418/j.issn.1000-3045.20210509002
Available at: https://bulletinofcas.researchcommons.org/journal/vol36/iss6/5