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Purple flower alfalfa and corn silage planting base, continuously providing ecological feed for dairy cows,
Recognizing the importance of high-quality forage, more and more farmers are starting to use it. From 2020 to 2023, the year-on-year price and quantity indices of imported forage, including alfalfa, in China showed an upward trend (data from the General Administration of Customs of the People's Republic of China), indicating that China's imports of high-quality forage, represented by protein forage, have been increasing year by year, with prices rising steadily. "How to open up an independent production path for high-quality forage in China?" has become a theoretical and practical issue that urgently needs to be addressed.
Where does high-quality forage come from?
Recognizing the importance of high-quality forage, more and more farmers are starting to use it. From 2020 to 2023, the year-on-year price and quantity indices of imported forage, including alfalfa, in China showed an upward trend (data from the General Administration of Customs of the People's Republic of China), indicating that China's imports of high-quality forage, represented by protein forage, have been increasing year by year, and prices have been rising steadily. How to open up an independent production path for high-quality forage in China? This has become a theoretical and practical problem that urgently needs to be solved.
How will China respond?
From the annual No. 1 Central Documents, we can see the country's determination to ensure the supply of cattle, horses, and sheep. In 2012, the action to revitalize the dairy industry and alfalfa development was launched; in 2020, the scale of grain-for-feed reform was expanded; in 2021, the development of high-quality forage was encouraged, and general cultivated land was explicitly included in forage production; in 2023, it was proposed to establish a large food outlook and develop high-yield and stable-yield High-quality forage production and accelerate the action to reduce and replace soybean meal for feed.
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