Guangling big-tail mutton is a geographical indication protected product. Guangling big-tail sheep mutton is an agricultural product with geographical indication.
Guangling big-tailed mutton is a specialty of Guangling County, Datong, Shanxi.
Guangling big-tailed sheep have a long history. It is said that they were introduced from Mongolia during the Han Dynasty. Due to the changes of the times and mutual economic and trade exchanges, people will mainly graze Mongolian sheep from the grassland all year round. Districts are introduced into agricultural areas. For a long time, under the influence of local natural conditions and ecological environment, as well as the careful feeding, management and selection of farmers, breeding has been restricted for a long time. The physical appearance and production performance tend to be consistent, and gradually formed a breed with fast growth and development, good fattening effect, high meat production, fresh and tender meat, good fur quality, hairy strand structure, very few dry dead hairs, and resistance to roughness. It is an excellent local variety with strong cold resistance and adapted to the continental semi-dry monsoon climate. Adult sheep have a body height of about 65 centimeters, a weight of about 55 kilograms, a tail length of 18-21 centimeters, a tail width of 19-22 centimeters, and a tail thickness of 5.5-7.9 centimeters. The local people named it big-tailed sheep since the Han Dynasty. Since 1968, we have hired Xu Jinyou, an animal husbandry expert from Shanxi Agricultural College, Professor Yu Dajia, the principal of the Provincial Animal Husbandry School, and comrades from the Livestock and Poultry Breeds Editorial Committee for the breeding of big-tailed sheep. It is believed that Guangling big-tail sheep is an excellent breed of sheep in Shanxi Province. In July 1983, Guangling big-tail sheep was included in the book "Records of Livestock and Poultry Breeds in Shanxi Province". According to county records: there were 19,900 big-tail sheep in 1949 and 48,000 in 1967. In 1979, in order to carry out the breeding and rapid fattening of this variety, core groups were established in 28 production brigades in 8 communes including Shaojiazhuang, Haizi and Liangzhuang. By 1984, there were 13 breeding groups with 1,800 animals and 17 fattening groups with 2,800 animals. From 1984 to 1988, it was listed as the core group of the Taihang Mountain Development Project of the Provincial Science and Technology Commission, and expanded to 14 townships (towns), 135 villages, and 5,184 households. In four years, 20,900 breeding sheep and 37,100 mutton sheep were cultivated, with economic benefits of 1.052 million yuan. 17 households had a net income of more than 10,000 yuan, and 933 households had a net income of more than 5,000 yuan. In 1985, the county's population at the end of the year was 27,000, which increased to 53,700 in 1988. In addition to big-tailed sheep, the county government funded the introduction of 343 small-tailed Han sheep from Yuncheng County, Shandong Province in 1988. At the end of 1990, there were 57,000 sheep on hand. According to statistics from the County Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Bureau in recent years: by the end of 2000, there were 82,000 big-tail sheep in stock, except for breeding sheep, selling live sheep and slaughtering mutton sheep. By the end of 2010, the county had 201,000 sheep. Among them, there are 123,000 big-tailed sheep and 78,000 goats and dairy goats. According to Jiao Li, a broker from Zhiyu Village, Yixing Township, "He has been selling live sheep to other places for more than 20 years. Every year, foreign merchants buy more than 1,000 breeding rams and more than 25,000 meat sheep from Guangling County. , more than 100,000 kilograms of mutton, and there are more than 20 merchants who live in Guangling to purchase sheep skins." According to Deng Xiwu, a shepherd in Sanzhuang Village, Huquan Town, when he was a child, he often followed his father to the wild to shepherd sheep for the production team. Every time it rained, there was a lot of water in the river channel. He rode a 142-jin of male sheep crossing the river." According to Shi Baozhou, who has worked for 32 years as a veterinarian, station director, deputy director, director, and deputy minister of the Ministry of Agriculture and Industry: As of August 1985, the county government had held three big-tailed sheep competition conferences. Afterwards, the county party committee and the county government issued certificates and medals to advanced collectives and model individuals. 20 excellent breeding sheep were awarded 50 yuan for the first place, 40 yuan for the runner-up, 30 yuan for the third place, 20 yuan for the second place, and 10 yuan for the third place. Level bonuses were issued. Guangling big-tail sheep, an excellent sheep breed, is famous all over the country for its unique seed and meat value. Big-tailed sheep also have good living habits, namely: strong gregariousness, strong ability to endure hardship, strong cold resistance, docile temperament, like dryness and dislike wetness, and can accurately understand mother and child. From August 28 to 30, 2009, the Guangling County Party Committee and County Government held an investment promotion meeting to provide preferential policies in terms of land acquisition, loans, taxes, funds, etc. to customers who come to Guangling to develop breeding and processing industries. Guangling County is a traditional agricultural county. With the further adjustment of the agricultural industrial structure, the traditional planting area of ??millet and beans has expanded year by year.
The county's cultivated area of ??millet reaches 50,000 acres, the area of ??various beans reaches 40,000 acres, 20,000 acres of oats, 30,000 acres of yam, and 10,000 acres of alfalfa. In addition, there are 320,000 acres of corn straw in the county, as well as natural pastures, and artificial grass planting is also expanding year by year. There are sufficient forage, feed, and abundant straw, which provides a solid material foundation for the stable development of Guangling big-tail sheep. . It has also opened up a road for the people of Guangling to become rich, laying a good foundation for implementing agricultural efficiency enhancement, increasing farmers' income, stabilizing the countryside, prospering the market, improving the food structure, enriching the vegetable basket, and improving people's living standards. Live products and meat products will be sold to large and medium-sized cities such as Datong, Taiyuan, Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei, and will gradually be exported to large domestic and foreign markets.
Product name: Guangling big-tail sheep mutton
Region: Shanxi
Applicant: Guangling Big-tail Sheep Scientific Breeding Association
Region: 2015
Regional scope
The geographical indication protection area for Guangling big-tailed sheep agricultural products is: 2 towns and 7 townships under the jurisdiction of Guangling County, namely: Nancun Town 180 administrative villages in , Huquan Town, Jiadou Township, Zuotuan Township, Yixing Township, Jiaoshan Township, Douquan Township, Liangzhuang Township, and Wanghu Township (reaching Liujiagou Village in the north, Dongfuyao Village in the west, From Niejiagou Village in the south to Xiaenzhuang Village in the east), the breeding area is 128,300 hectares, with an annual slaughter of 83,000 animals, an output of 1,330 tons, a slaughter rate of 61.5%, and an annual stock of 123,000 animals. The geographical coordinates are between 39°51′-39°55′ north latitude and 113°51′-114°24′ east diameter. The terrain is high in the northwest and low in the southeast. It gradually slopes from northwest to southeast. The highest altitude is 2375 meters and the lowest is 930 meters. rice.