The annual death loss of livestock and poultry diseases in China is 23.8 billion

Introduction: China's annual economic loss of livestock and poultry deaths exceeds 23.8 billion yuan Fan Xiaojian, Deputy Minister of agriculture of Haikou electric power department of China News Agency, said today that it is estimated that China's annual direct economic loss of livestock and poultry deaths caused by epidemics is as high as 23.8 billion yuan, and the per capita loss of farmers is 26 yuan Fan Xiaojian, speaking at today's Haikou Forum on agricultural development in epidemic free areas, said that the problem of animal epidemics in China is still very prominent At the beginning of this year, the outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza in some parts of China brought economic losses of 18 billion yuan to poultry production in the mainland Fan Xiaojian said that China is the world's largest producer and consumer of livestock products In 2003, China's meat production reached 693.12 million tons, ranking first in the world, accounting for 27% of the world's total meat production China's meat products have low production cost and competitive advantage in export, but due to animal diseases, drug residues and technical barriers and other factors, the export of livestock products is often blocked, and it is difficult to open up the international market Meat exports account for only 1.3% of the total domestic meat output and 3.6% of the total world meat exports Fan Xiaojian said that animal health is one of the three major public health issues in human society Animal epidemics not only seriously affect the development of animal husbandry and the increase of farmers' income, but also affect social stability and human health and safety China will speed up the construction of six unregulated animal disease demonstration areas in five regions, namely Jiaodong Peninsula, Liaodong Peninsula, Sichuan Basin, Songliao plain and Hainan Island, improve animal health standards, and adapt to the agricultural development of China in the new era