Livestock production features and development strategy in main ecological regions of northwest of China

Animal production is the traditional agricultural industry in northwest China, and has an very important strategic significance on agricultural structure adjustment and grassland agriculture development. This aryicle choose Maqu, Huanxian and Minqin County as examples, thinking that the serious natural grassland degradation and the shrinking area, insufficient cultivated grassland area, single varieties and lower production, the mismanagement of herds et al that hindered the natural connection of grass and livestock production system, and also the main reasons to restrict the animal production. So this research present that, the in house cattle breeding+winter feeding, family joint household, short term fattening and coupling of grassland and livestock systems are the main livestock production development mode coupling in northwest of China.