Abstract:

Livestock farming is an essential activity in many rural areas, where it contributes to the maintenance of soil fertility, ecological environment, promoting crop yield and farmland biodiversity, as well as to a set of social public goods including food security, rural vitality and culture. Therefore, livestock industry is the pivotal link between the human food chain and the ecological environment. Rational and appropriate livestock breeding is beneficial to maintain ecological balance and realize sustainable development of agriculture. At present, China remains the technology-lagged country with a high-cost-low-efficiency livestock industry, and only a small proportion of livestock products intensive processed. Meanwhile, due to the development of intensive and large-scale farming, it produced a large quantity of livestock waste, with a low rate of comprehensive utilization and a high cost for innocent treatments. The scientific and reasonable treatment of livestock waste has become an urgent task for rural environmental management. The authors reviewed the development of poultry breeding industry, summarized the achievements made in the field of livestock industry in China, analyzed the problem of livestock waste processing of the current livestock industry that facing, proposed the urgent mission for livestock wastes resource utilization, and the development of modern ecological culture is the inevitable choice to solve the new problems appearing in the process of the transformation and upgrading of Chinese animal husbandry in this regard. The development prospects and trends of livestock wastes resource utilization were also included in this review.

Key words: Livestock, Modern Ecological Culture, Livestock Wastes, Sustainable Development