HOHHOT, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- Beef production in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region reached 663,000 tonnes in 2020, ranking first in China, according to the latest data released by the National Bureau of Statistics.
Du Zhe, an official of the regional agriculture and animal husbandry department, attributed the boom of beef production to the local authorities' effort to promote high-end cattle breeds and plant forage grass and silage corn.
The region has more than 5.8 million cattle in stock. Its production capacity of dried forage grass and silage corn has reached 6 million tonnes and 45 million tonnes a year, respectively.
Inner Mongolia has led China's provincial-level regions in the outputs of milk, mutton, fluff materials, grass and beef. It sends out 12.5 million tonnes of grain, 5 million tonnes of milk and 1.5 million tonnes of meat every year. Enditem
