Liu Taiying, who bred the first country breed “Yuanxing Cattle”: strives to increase the production of 1,000 cattle in three years and gradually reach an economic level – Agricultural Media

The Ministry of Agriculture’s Animal Industry Experimental Institute collaborated with private businesses on “participatory breeding”. 8th). “Yuanxing Cattle” is the last gift that the late former President Lee Teng-hui gave to Taiwan when he devoted himself to agriculture in his later years, said Liu Taiying, chairman of Bith Company -Yuanxingju technology, who cultivated Yuanxing cattle, by naming it, it was special. he went to the residence of former President Lee Stating “We have done it”, he himself was in tears heads will be needed to get an economic scale for the Chinese people to eat.

Yuanxing cattle were a version of cattle imported from Japan by the Governor General of Taiwan during the Japanese colonial period in 1934. After the war, the Japanese government fled back and raised them in Qingtiangang, Yangmingshan. purchased by the Lee Teng-hui Foundation and Yuan Xingju Biotechnology in 2016 and named Yuan Xingniu after Yuan Xingju, Lee Teng-hui’s former residence. Yuanxingju Biotechnology proposed that the new strain be named, and announced the approval document in June this year.

Yang Zhenrong, a researcher at the Animal Testing Institute, said that Japanese Wagyu experts analyzed the SNP chip in 2017 and confirmed that Yuanxing cattle are genetically close to Japanese Wagyu cattle and further away from cattle breeds. the West although they are closely related to Japanese Wagyu cattle, their genotypic differences also show Still as an independent ethnic group.

The Animal Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture today announced the first privately bred cattle and pig breeds “Yuanxing Cattle” and “Pingpu Black Pigs”. (Photos/You Shengfu)

“Yuanxing cattle” cow. (Photo courtesy / Experimental Animal Laboratory)

Yuanxingju Biotechnology will continue to invest in stock maintenance and breeding, expand the population, and try breeding experiments with different cattle. Liu Taiying said that Yuanxing cattle spent 300 million yuan on research and development alone. so now he is looking for farmers to represent him. , and will eventually reach 10,000 to achieve an economic scale, and a market for Taiwanese Wagyu can be established, which can be eaten every day.

Liu Taiying said that the research and development process is very hard, and it needs continuous investment and talent search but do not fail, and we cannot damage the reputation of former President Lee.” After announcing his approval, he went to President Lee’s old residence and said, “We did it.” Looking back on his journey, Liu Taiying modestly said that he was an outsider in agriculture Although he worked hard, “I could only achieve 65 points and I almost passed.

Chung Di-Ming, general manager of Yuanxingju Biotechnology, pointed out that Taiwan’s beef cattle are mainly supplied by dairy bulls or oligogenic dairy cows, with more than 8,000 metric tons slaughtered per year, and Tainan beef soup supplied and then used Domestic market demand is about 170,000 metric tons, more than 160,000 metric tons are imported from the United States and Australia They have a large market potential, so they are the hope to find domestic beef Small livestock farms expand the scale of production by raising stock on behalf of others.

Liu Taiying, chairman of Yuanxingju Biotechnology Company, said he specifically went to former President Lee’s former residence to report that “we have done it” by naming it. (Photos/You Shengfu)

“Yuanxing Beef” meat slices have good fat distribution. (Photos/You Shengfu)

Chung Di-Ming said that killing three cows is about 1 metric ton of beef It takes 100,000 cows to kill 30,000 To meet the market demand of 160,000 metric tons, at least 2 million cows must be raised, but Taiwan doesn’t have enough. land and resources, so the company is also seeking cooperation with livestock farms in Japan and Vietnam to provide them with sperm to raise and produce beef and then buy it on however, there are quarantine regulations in place over the export of sperm and the purchase of frozen beef.

Chung Di-Ming assessed that next year when the Taiwan-New Zealand Agreement comes into effect, it will affect the dairy industry, but beef cattle will not sell for 80,000 to 100,000 yuan each, and Yuanxing cattle can be sold . for 200,000 yuan, and the economic value has doubled times, which is better for cattle farmers, and dairy farms are welcome to inquire and cooperate, he said that the price level of Wagyu cattle is 2,000 and 3,000 yuan per kilogram the cost of domestic Wagyu cattle is still lower than the cost of imported cattle, but the price still needs to be evaluated, if the production capacity of self-owned livestock farms is considered to be sufficient for to be listed on the market, it will not exist. until 2027 or 28.

Fresh, sweet and tender, better than an Iberian pig Taiwan’s “Pingpu Black Pig” is hitting the international market

Boar “Pingpu Black Pig”. (Photo courtesy / Experimental Animal Laboratory)

“Pingpu Black Pigs” were purchased by Li Rongchun, the director of Chunfacheng Animal Farm, in Taiwan since 1997. They collaborated with the Animal Experiment Institute and National Taiwan University to select the MSTN AAT gene combination type and researched it selected, genetically purified, and re-bred into local black pig breeding stock. Pingpu black pigs are closely related to Meishan pigs and Taoyuan pigs.

Li Rongchun said that Pingpu black pigs can be put on the market after being raised on food for 10 months relatively tender and competitive in the international market, so the company is very involved in the domestic and overseas market In 2018, they successfully exported live products to Hong Kong In 2021, fresh pork will be exported to the Philippines. If the country can be a traditional swine fever free zone next year, it will help pork exports to be smoother.