The Ministry of Agriculture recently convened a National Animal Health Surveillance Work Conference in Shanghai to discuss the "Measures for the Supervision and Administration of Inter-provincial Relocation and Transportation of Animals" (Draft for Comment). The reporter was informed that the main purpose of formulating the "Measures" was to control the inter-provincial transport of animals, to prohibit inter-provincial transportation of scattered animals, and to control the spread of the epidemic by controlling the inter-provincial transport of animals.

Does this mean that it is difficult for the public to buy northern Jiangsu grass chickens in the Shanghai market? After the reporter visited the market yesterday, he discovered that the “foreign chickens” in the three wholesale markets of live chickens in the city basically came from cooperatives. At present, many cooperatives also use the free-range mode under the forest to raise poultry, even if the scattered animals cannot be transferred across provinces in the future. The public can still eat live grass chickens.

The new method of making money for the farmer's small farmer ordered the northern Jiangsu grass chicken for the residents. "I want two northern Jiangsu grass chicken stew. I'll bring it to me tomorrow!" "I want a wild duck, not too big, enough for 5 pounds." In a small farm in the Wujiaochang area, boss Chen Xiaohe promised to note the customer’s request. In addition to the three yellow chickens and two yellow chickens that were sold at the booth every day, he also provided ordering services to bring grass and fowl ducks from the countryside in northern Jiangsu Province. .

“The chickens coming out of the farms are cheap, but the people in Shanghai don’t like to use it to eat stew. They feel that they are not fresh enough and are not strong enough. They are used to make white chickens and braised chicken. If you want to cook soup, you’ll Or we are scattered in northern Jiangsu.” Xiaochen is a native of northern Jiangsu Province. Most of his live chickens come from Yancheng, Dongtai and other places in Jiangsu Province. Every day, fellow farmers bring live chickens from the local area, but due to the high prices of free-range grass chickens. There are fewer people buying ducks, and free-range grass-and-grass ducks only accept reservations from the previous day, and they do not have stock. "Ordinary three yellow chicken 8 yuan a catty, if it is a grass chicken will have to 18 yuan a catty, the duck is more expensive, but there are always several old customers to order every day, the market is still good." He said that these chickens and ducks are local people In their own homes, the family also has dozens of them. Because they eat rice rather than feed, their feeding time is longer, and their taste is obviously better than that of “raising chickens”.

In an interview, the reporter found that there are not many small stalls like Xiaochen to book grasshoppers for their customers. Apart from the acquisition of rural areas in northern Jiangsu Province, there are also a few scattered chickens from rural households in this city. "In fact, there are also supermarkets selling chickens, even chickens raised organically. You have to pay more than 30 yuan per kilogram, but it is better to kill fresh frozen ones than to buy fresh ones now." Zhang Ayi said that at home Relatives had just opened a knife and came out of the hospital, so she could add her grass ducks to her body.

The new regulations of the Ministry of Agriculture are not for freeing poultry or forbidden to sell in Shanghai. However, the Ministry of Agriculture's “Administrative Measures for the Supervision of Inter-provincial Transport and Distribution of Animals” (draft for soliciting opinions) has caused many people to discuss recently, and they are worried that they will never eat a northern Jiangsu chicken. .

The drafting of the "Measures" pointed out that surveys have shown that 70% of animal epidemics are related to the movement of animals. At present, the long-distance transport of livestock and poultry used for food is not standardized. After the March 15 “Clenbuterol” incident, the leaders of the Ministry of Agriculture explicitly requested that relevant supervision be strengthened. Among them, scattered animals as the weak spots and risk points for disease prevention and control and product safety have been under the supervision and control of key points. The introduction of the prohibition of inter-provincial transport of free-range animals was based on this background.

In addition, at present, the time for China to vigorously promote large-scale farming has matured, and the regulation of inter-provincial regulation of sports objects can speed up the current process of animal husbandry. According to industry sources, the Ministry of Agriculture has forbidden the consideration of inter-provincial transport of scattered animals. In addition to the relatively large potential safety risks of free-range animals, it also hopes to control the scale of development by reducing its sales channels and encouraging more farmers to convert from individual households to livestock. For large-scale farming.

The Ministry of Agriculture specifically pointed out that the implementation of the "Measures" will not cause shortage of meat products and increase of meat prices. "The main purpose of the plan is to control the inter-provincial transport of animals, to prohibit inter-provincial transport of animals, and to control the spread of animal epidemics by controlling the inter-provincial transport of animals, but it does not restrict the transfer of animal products across provinces." At present, China's pigs, laying hens, The proportion of large-scale farming of dairy cows was 61%, 79%, and 42% respectively. Animals raised on the scale farms with conditions can all export across provinces. The circulation of livestock and poultry, which are the main commodities for animal husbandry and aquaculture, will not be affected. Promoting the development of planned aquaculture and animal slaughtering and processing industries in different regions will not affect the supply of meat products and increase prices.

Shanghai market survey fresh “live kill chicken” prices are still high in the consumer mainstream grabbed a chicken from a chicken cage, weighed in a pound, wait for the customer to nod and said the size is satisfactory, Shen Sister took a knife on the neck of the chicken A knife, then put it in a plastic bucket, cover the lid to chicken blood. After a few tens of seconds, the chickens that had died out no longer thrive, but soaked in hot water and thrown into specialized hair removers. The “plate chicken” was then opened and broken, and according to the customer’s request, it went to the end and half. Cut into chunks and keep it intact. The finished chicken is served in the plastic bag and delivered to the customer. It is only five minutes before and after. In this stall, Shen Dajie basically sells and kills more than 100 broilers this day.

“The chicken that live kills is fresh and the incense that burns out.” Holding the grass chicken that had just slaughtered, the housewife prepared to bran the grass chicken half and half boiled the soup. "Grass chicken is 16 yuan a pound, and now it is not cheap to eat live chicken." Although the price is a bit high, but for taste and fresh, live poultry stall business is clearly better than frozen meat.

The designated retail outlet for live poultry at the Guoquan Road vegetable farm is about ten square meters, and part of the kitchen is for processing. The other part is neatly arranged with several iron cages and is considered a “hen house”. Apart from a dozen chickens, there are also several ducks and pigeons in the cage. According to Sister Chen, the best selling retail store is still a yellow chicken. Because it is cheaper to draft chickens and old hens for 15-6 yuan, the second yellow chicken is relatively cheap, while the latter is collectively called the grass chicken and is a free-range herbivore. . She had already sold 70 chickens yesterday, half of which were sold directly to nearby restaurants and the other half was retail. "When the business is good, it can sell more than 100 a day. Today is a low season."

Due to the designated retail outlets, these poultry are purchased from the Sanguantang Egg and Egg Wholesale Market. She handed over to the reporter a thick stack of transaction confirmation sheets hung on the wall. The documents were printed with the purchaser, the person in charge of the supply, the type and quantity of the goods purchased. “There are numbers on the top, which can ensure the quality of chickens, and there is proof of health immunization.”

In the wholesale market, “foreign chickens” are mostly purchased from cooperatives as the main sales destination for animal products. Once scattered animals are forbidden to transfer across provinces, will the Shanghai poultry market face shortages and prices? Yesterday, the reporter visited the Shanghai Agricultural Products Center Wholesale Market and Sanguantang Egg and Egg Wholesale Market and discovered that the city’s foreign birds basically come from large-scale cooperatives such as cooperatives, which occupy the “big head” of the city’s consumption.

“In our market, 60% of the chickens, pigeons, and cockroaches are locally sourced, and 40% are from Jiangsu. Only a small amount of local chickens will come from retail households. Jiangsu chickens are basically purchased from cooperatives and other units.” Shanghai Agricultural Products Center Wholesale Market Hu Chunling, head of the poultry area, said that since 2004, poultry products from Jiangsu have been produced only by cooperatives. “We are here a wholesale market. A business household sells a few pounds of live chickens every day. The sales of the whole market is about 7,000 chickens a day. If it comes from retail households, it is definitely too late to sell. We are all in Jiangsu. The cooperatives with fixed-point contracts are mainly distributed in Changzhou and Taichang.”

The Sanguantang Egg and Egg Market, located at Caoyang Road, Guchuan Road, is the largest wholesale chicken market in Shanghai. It sells 50,000 live chickens daily and sells local chickens from Pudong and “foreign chickens” from Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Mr. Cai, the head of his business department, said that the "foreign chickens" entering the market basically come from cooperatives or large-scale farms. “Every day we enter the poultry market for sale, we have access permits. We have to write down which farms we are coming from and the amount of goods we purchase. If we are from other provinces and cities, we will sell them directly from the point of view of shipping costs. There will not be a lot of market in Shanghai."

Inter-provincial transport investigation “Three Certificates and One Chapter” can only be completed in Shanghai In recent years, Shanghai has launched inter-provincial regulation of animal and animal products. Live chickens and other “virtuous” birds have to enter the wholesale market for the only three live chickens in Shanghai. Market, three chapters are essential.

Inspection and quarantine certificates, vehicle disinfection certificates, certificates for non-epidemic areas, and knock-offs after entering the Shanghai crossing are only complete in all four things before they can enter the wholesale market. At noon yesterday, the reporter saw at the poultry section of the Shanghai Agricultural Products Center's wholesale market that the blackboard on the entrance marked twice-a-day sterilization time and related persons responsible. The person in charge, Hu Chunling, said that in addition to the relevant supporting documents for checking and registering live poultry, daily health management in the poultry area is also very important. According to the regulations, the staff cleaned and washed the market every morning and afternoon, and sprayed the entire poultry area such as chicken coops. The disinfectants were purchased from the animal quarantine station for poultry use.

In addition to the “physical examination” conducted by local inspection and quarantine departments before going live poultry, the county-level animal epidemic prevention department in Shanghai will enter the wholesale market for spot checks every week. “The weekly quarantine department randomly selects live chickens in the market and then takes them back for spot checks,” said Cai Caichang, head of the Sanchatang Business Division. For the treatment and destruction of diseased chickens and dead chickens, the market also has its own emergency treatment plan.

The transportation equipment also needs to be fully disinfected. The reporter learned from the market survey that the city’s “non-local chickens” are basically from the Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, including Yudo in Jiangsu Province. Since the transport routes are relatively close, generally three to four hours can arrive at the wholesale market from the farms. . In order to deal with possible epidemics in transportation, all transportation tools need to be fully disinfected.

“The road from Jiangsu to Shanghai is not far. It is unlikely that there will be an epidemic disease on the way. However, transport personnel and tools such as loading personnel, drivers, trucks, plastic baskets, etc. must be disinfected.” Senior Animal Pastor Gu Xingbing, Jiangsu Province In an interview, he said that most of the poultry transported from the Jiangsu and Zhejiang markets to the Shanghai market use trucks for road transport. The key is to disinfect transportation equipment. “Although local inspectors are required to conduct tests before they are present in poultry, they may still be insidious. In order to avoid morbidity on the market and to infect local poultry, spray disinfection is required before departure.

“As the weather gets hotter, in order to avoid the onset of heat stroke in the transport of poultry, the local farmers are loading in the afternoon and the temperature is slightly lower before they are shipped on the road. Summer is not a period of high incidence of disease, and poultry safety is more secure.”

Another way is for citizens to try to purchase chickens scattered in other places. In addition to purchasing grass and grass ducks at a small farm, there are also a few people who purchase goods from Chongming, Pudong, and even northern Jiangsu. The reporter searched on the Internet and found that many online shops are using farm produce as their highlights to sell chickens, ducks, fruits and vegetables grown and cultivated in their own homes. Since the output is relatively small, its price is not cheap. A three-kilogram weight of grass chicken plus shipping costs more than one hundred yuan.

The reporter found a shop owner who specialized in scattered chickens on the Internet. He told reporters that he is a retailer who raises chickens in Jianhu Rural Fish Pond. The number is 400 or so. The chickens can be killed and vacuum packed and delivered to customers. . “There are quite a lot of people coming to Shanghai to get goods, especially if there are pregnant women, children, the elderly, or patients in the family.” The owner said that there are also some chicken farms in his village, but most of them are three yellow chickens, only farmers. The home is still free-range. "The grass chickens are not as fast as the three yellow chickens, but the meat quality is definitely better than the three yellow chickens. We are feeding corn and rice."

Experts dispelled the doubts and dismissed the problem of "specialty-free chickens." Not only free-range chicken farms but also scattered chickens will not be reduced. Industry experts said that citizens need not worry about not eating loose-range grass chickens, because there are already many cooperatives and breeding companies. Farms raise poultry in a free-range manner and gradually reduce retailing.

Free-range chickens are not equal to retail chickens. “Private chickens in small-scale farming can be called free-range chickens. Chickens raised in free-range farming are also free-range chickens. Among the bans that the Ministry of Agriculture may implement, those that are shut down are individual chickens.” People believe that even if the ban is enforced, citizens do not have to worry about free-range chickens and ducks.

“The Shanghai market consumes 30 million broilers each year, of which real estate broilers only account for 20%, 80% of broilers are from Jiangsu and Zhejiang. If you add ducks, pigeons, quail, etc., the annual live poultry consumption is about 50 million. "In this huge number, most of the poultry are farmed, and can be put on the market after three or four months of growth in a chicken cage. For the consumers, they are kept in the forest in accordance with traditional farming methods. Although the prices of grass-chicken, grass-and-grass ducks are slightly higher, they are far more delicious than soup-raising chickens. Some of the farms that have begun to take off have now begun to raise chickens and ducks. Unlike farmers who use leftovers to feed more than a dozen or so chickens and ducks in their homes, such scattered farming is obviously larger.

“In the past, we saw courtyard farming as free-range farming, and many farmers would build a chicken shed in their own yards. These individual broiler chickens will also go to the market in addition to their own consumption. But in recent years, with the poultry industry in China, Standards, and the flow of rural labor to cities, courtyard-style chicken farmers are gradually reduced, replaced by cooperatives operating.” Secretary-General of the Shanghai Poultry Association Chen Jiadong said, whether in the suburbs or the rural areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, there are not Less cooperatives for broiler chickens, unlike the narrow areas in farms, grow up in field fruit trees and find their own food. Compared with retail chickens, in addition to the similar breeding methods, there are more health and safety requirements and inspections, which have become the “cultivation method” for brand chickens. Although the prices are much higher than the “raised chickens”, Still favored by the public, with the expansion of its scale of cultivation, the public do not have to worry about can not eat free-range chickens and ducks.

In Jiangsu Province, retail sales of chickens are mostly local sales as the largest supplier of poultry to the Shanghai market. In recent years, large-scale farming in Jiangsu has also continued to advance. Take Yancheng as an example, its scale has reached 70%, and many retail chickens are in the local market. It was consumed directly. “Our Nantong-to-Shanghai poultry production is basically large-scale production. This is because the provisions for livestock and poultry imported into Shanghai are to be recorded on a fixed basis, and special personnel are to be inspected at the farm before the procurement. During the Shanghai World Expo, every batch of livestock and poultry entering Shanghai will be recorded. All of them must be tested, and now is the case. Once a problem arises, the farm's qualifications for entering Shanghai will be abolished. Under such strict standards, only standardized farms will be allowed to pass, and livestock raised by retail households will not be up to standard."

Coupled with the need for logistics and other costs to enter the Shanghai market, most of the poultry raised by retail households are consumed locally.