The Influencing Factors On Livestock Off-take Rates:A Case Study In The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

At the fourth plenary session of the 19 th central committee of the communist party of China(CPC),a strategic plan was put forward for the construction of a new countryside and the eradication of poverty in the vast rural areas.The total grassland area of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau reaches 128 million hm2,accounting for a quarter of the total grassland area of the country.It has a unique advantage in developing animal husbandry,but it is also restricted by local social,economic and other factors.Compared with the pastoral areas of Inner Mongolia,pastoral areas of Qinghai-Tibet plateau cattle and sheep slaughtering rate is not high,the low degree of commercialization,and the factors of restricting its livestock slaughtering rate of both natural environment factor,also has the social and personal factors,based on this problem,this study of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau area of Gansu province,Qinghai province and Tibet region 115 pure herdsman three years of continuous enter a tracking survey,in-depth understanding of the influence the Tibetan herdsman cattle and sheep slaughtering rate what factors and how measures required.In some previous literature journals,the analysis of factors affecting the livestock stocking rate in the pastoral areas on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau was mainly conducted around the impact of natural disasters and Tibetan Buddhism.However,this study mainly focused on the analysis of the individual characteristics of herdsmen,the economic characteristics of herdsmen and the development of animal husbandry.In this study,stratified random sampling method was adopted to obtain the panel balance data of 2016,2017 and 2018 in pastoral areas on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau.Descriptive statistical analysis and the establishment of an empirical econometric model were used to study and analyze the data,and the following conclusions were drawn:(1)the household income and expenditure of the herders have a great impact on the rate of stockbreeding,which shows a declining trend with the increase of the household income of cordyceps sinensis.There was a positive correlation between the education expenditure of herdsmen and the rate of stocktaking,and there was a positive correlation between the medical expenditure of herdsmen and the rate of stocktaking.(2)there is a positive correlation between the herd rate and the ecological prize and subsidy amount of the herder family.That is to say,the herd rate increases with the increase of the ecological subsidy amount of the herder family,and the cooperative households are in favor of speeding up the field opening.The average herd rate is 3.2% higher than the average herd rate of the single family.The price of livestock has a positive effect on the rate of stockbreeding.(3)according to the research,the older and less educated the head of a herder household is,the lower the livestock herd rate will be.The smaller the number of animals at the end of the period,the higher the stockout rate.There is a positive correlation between the price of livestock and the herd rate of herders.In other words,the higher the price of livestock,the higher the herd rate of herders.At the same time,the greater the number of male animals in the herd,the higher the herd rate of herders.Based on the analysis results,this study proposes the following policy recommendations:(1)intensify publicity and education efforts to popularize the disadvantages of raising long-raised and aged animals to the herdsmen,and guide the best time and season for herdsmen to put out their cattle and sheep.Improve Tibetan education infrastructure construction,reduce the pressure of the Tibetan herdsmen education,actively promote education culture for livestock breeding,the importance of herdsmen income increase and economic development,change the herdsmen’s education idea,scientific farming,at the same time,specification herders for the mining of Chinese caterpillar fungus,encourage leads the herders in cordyceps income to invest in the development of animal husbandry and education etc to set up correct consumption idea of investment.(2)the government should pay attention to the amount of ecological awards and subsidies.On the premise of considering the national finance,it should increase the amount of ecological awards and subsidies,promote the virtuous cycle of the economy in pastoral areas,improve the enthusiasm of herdsmen for healthy development of animal husbandry,and raise the rate of livestock raising in herdsmen’s households.(3)promoting cooperative partnerships of the business model,on the one hand,the management mode of the cooperative partnerships mass breeding,enhances the herdsmen’s bargaining power,to improve the price of the pastoral livestock,thereby improving livestock slaughtering rate,on the other hand,the cooperative partnerships of the mode of operation and convenient management,is conducive to herdsman scientific farming,to improve the economic benefit.