Author(s)

John O. Brown

Affiliation(s)

Energy and Resources Group, University of California, Berkeley, USA.

Corresponding Author

John O. Brown

ABSTRACT

The “farming-based” agriculture and animal husbandry in the Loess Plateau is facing sustainable development issues. The primary and secondary relationship between agriculture and animal husbandry should be replaced. Adjust the "focus on farming " Integrated into "pastoral-based"; agricultural and animal husbandry resources are re-allocated through the coupling of agriculture, forestry, grass and irrigation, Implement grass-irrigation first based on the idea of grassing first if grass is suitable, irrigation first if irrigation is suitable, and forest first if forest is suitable. Implement development strategies and gradually form grass and shrub (wood). The forest three-dimensional ecological barrier and the complementary structure of related industries. The animal husbandry industry in the Loess Plateau should develop an eco-friendly animal husbandry with unique paths and innovative mechanisms. It should promote the operation mode of house-fed and semi-house-fed animal husbandry, with large breeding households as the main body and cooperatives as the link. The breeding community is used as a platform to cultivate the main body of animal husbandry production and operation in the Loess Plateau. Focusing on the coupled development of agriculture, forestry, grassland and animal husbandry, we will vigorously strengthen industrial cultivation, policy support, and project Project investment, interest guidance and other support points will form a "four-wheel drive" development pattern of animal husbandry in the Loess Plateau.

KEYWORDS

Loess Plateau; Animal husbandry; Coupling of agriculture; Forestry; Grass and animal husbandry

CITE THIS PAPER

John O. Brown. Research on the coupled development strategy of agriculture, forestry, grass and animal husbandry in the loess plateau. World Journal of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences. 2023, 1(2): 18-25. DOI:10.61784/wjafs231234.

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