Authors : Jian-Ying Wang, Zou-Ran Lan , Fu-Lin Tia and Xiu-Mei Zhang
Abstract: Livestock farming is crucial for the development of agriculture. Understanding the impact of the financial crisis to China’s animal husbandry and positively responding to it are very important to ensure the stable, sustainable development of animal husbandry. This study describes where the influence of economic crisis on livestock farming is in China and gives strategies we should take in detail that is the government should continue assisting, speed up the reform of veterinary management system and stabilize rural veterinary number, adjust and optimize the industrial layout, change the production system, strengthen the popularization and application of science and technology, establish and perfect information platform of animal husbandry, develop and cultivate market at home and abroad form cooperatives and stand up against the cold wave together. Those strategies will give important lessons to the other developing countries.
Jian-Ying Wang, Zou-Ran Lan , Fu-Lin Tia and Xiu-Mei Zhang , 2012. Influence and Strategies of Economic Crisis on China’s Livestock Farming. Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances, 11: 1096-1099.