Model Dairy Zone to be Built in Central China

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Model Dairy Zone to be Built in Central China

An environmentally friendly model dairy zone will be established in central China's Henan Province to boost development of the local dairy industry and increase local farmers' income.

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An environmentally friendly model dairy zone will be established in central China's Henan Province to boost development of the local dairy industry and increase local farmers' income.

Initial construction for the zone, which will stretch along the2,463-sq km shoals of the Yellow River, is already under way in Zhengzhou, the provincial capital, and Xinxiang City, said Xie Zhensheng, director of the animal husbandry bureau, Tuesday.

High milk-producing cows will be imported and bred in the pilotareas, and the industrialization of dairy business will be revved up, Xie said.

According to a plan, the model dairy zone will contain 100,000 head of cattle including 60,000 milk producing cows, with a designed annual production capacity of 300,000 tons of quality fresh milk.

Situated in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, Henan is blessed with affluent feed resources provided by the river's shoals.

A total of more than one million residents in the shoal area will benefit from the move, Xie said.

In addition, the animal husbandry bureau plans to build a cow raising base, exploit 6.67 million hectares of grassland and set up a dairy quality monitoring system and a cow disease control system, at an estimated cost of 961.93 million yuan (115.89 million US dollars). These projects are expected to yield an annual output of 1.944 billion yuan (234.22 million US dollars).

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