Dongwan Village of Banqiaodian Town, Yicheng City, Hubei Province, China

Dongwan Village, Banqiaodian Town, Yicheng City, Hubei Province, is located in the easternmost part of Yicheng, bordering Pinglin Town, Zaoyang, with an area of 53.5 square kilometers of mountains, of which 45.2 square kilometers are natural pastures, and the development of grass-fed livestock is blessed with unique conditions. As early as in the early eighties is a famous pastoral village, the masses have many years of experience and tradition of raising sheep.

In the process of promoting rural industrial restructuring, the town and village leaders to take stock of the situation, and proposed to give full play to their own advantages in the construction of meat sheep farming community development ideas. After several years of construction since 2001, the East Bay goat-raising community is taking shape, the community has 15 goat-raising households, in 2004, the goat rearing capacity of 4400, 3200 meat goats out of the pen.

In the process of construction of the district, they mainly took four measures: First, the policy tilt, actively guide. Farmers engaged in large-scale sheep farming within the planning area of the district, credit unions give priority to the issuance of loans, in 2004 the village farmers received sheep credit loans of 660,000 yuan. The timber and land required for the construction of sheep houses are given priority. Second, unified planning and high standard construction. Cell implementation of the "unified building model, unified breeding varieties, unified feeding standards, unified disease prevention and control, unified product sales" of the five unified model, so that the planning and construction of scientific, breeding varieties of good, standardized feeding management, supporting services, product sales are guaranteed. Third, strengthen services, steady progress. The town has introduced the Nanjiang yellow sheep and Boer goats to establish a good breed of goat breeding farms, the promotion of good crossbreeding improvement technology, so that the performance of meat goat production and the level of substantial increase. The town's veterinary station specializes in arranging two skilled professionals resident in Dongwan village to carry out disease prevention and control and scientific breeding technology guidance, two years in the village of animal husbandry departments to carry out technical training and on-site demonstration of the exchange will be 12 times, the participants reached 1,300 people.

Driven by the operation of the district, the village has developed more than 100 goat farming 45 large households, the village goat rearing reached a total of more than 12,000. The small area was set up with a goat association, commercial goats are all contacted by the community goat association sold to Guangxi, Hunan and other places.