BOABC Analysis of Prevention & Treatment of Livestock Pollution Plan

By CnAgri2013-01-10 10:14:57 Print Livestock pollution has worsened in China over the last few years. The livestock industry’s chemical oxygen demand and ammonia nitrogen discharge reached 11.84 million MT and 650,000 MT respectively in 2010, accounting for 45% and 25% of the nation’s total.
 
The Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Environmental Protection have recently issued The Prevention & Treatment of Livestock Pollution Plan in the 12^th Five-Year Period. The plan aims to prevent and dispose of pollution in heavily polluted areas and major livestock production regions.
 
The objectives of the plan are as the follows: the establishment of livestock pollution prevention and treatment system by 2015, the improvement of livestock pollutant treatment facilities, the control of serious livestock pollution and the reduction of livestock industry’s chemical oxygen demand and ammonia nitrogen discharge by 8% and 10% respectively compared with 2010.
 
To prevention livestock industry’s pollution, the government has closed down many farms in the suburbs of cities in recent years. Livestock production is on the whole being transferred from eastern provinces to western provinces. The new plan is presumed to offer more help to large-scale farms but force small farms to quit livestock production.

From “China Livestock and Feed Market Weekly Report”