关键词: 草业, 灌木, 草业系统工程, 草地畜牧业

Abstract: The mechanism of forage industry development consists of an overall planning and large-scale production operation. The present paper expounds the following opinions:1. Forage industr, together with agriculture and forestry, form a tripartite farming system. The paper accentuates cultivation of grasses and other herbs, protection of grassland, and measures to ensure the sustainable development of animal husbandry, not just animal production and its output value. 2. An effective means to raise the output value of grassland animal husbandry is to cultivate herbs which could not only be feeds for sheep, cattle, hogs, and horses, but for deer and river deer(the male pilose antler is a Chinese medicine), hares(for fur and meat), rodents(meat for bred-and-penned-in foxes and martens)as well. All of which would boost the output value multifold. 3. Though woody feeds like shrub and tree twigs are palatable to livestocks, it is still undecided whether they should be included in the forage category. We consider these feeds form a link between the forage industry and forestry, and not necessarily be included in the former.

Key words: Forage industry, Shrub or shrubbery, Mechanism of forage industry development, Grassland animal husbandry