Shaya wapiti

Shaya red deer is a specialty of Shaya County in Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang. Shaya County enjoys the reputation of "China Tarim Red Deer Town". Shaya county is the main producing area of Tarim red deer, which is mainly distributed on the banks of Tarim River on the northern edge of Taklimakan desert. Tarim red deer has unique adaptability to the desert area of Tarim Basin, which is resistant to drought, heat and strong wind. Long-term natural selection makes Tarim red deer adapt to the water quality with high salinity and high salinity in Tarim River basin, and is good at running, trudging and eating widely. As far back as 2000 years ago, deer tail was regarded as a precious tonic in ancient China, and Tarim red deer tail was a good product among deer tails. Moreover, Shaya Tarim Velvet Antler has won many gold medals in Guangzhou Expo and Urumqi Foreign Economic Fair, and its products are mainly exported to South Korea, Japan, Singapore and other Southeast Asian countries. Shaya county has issued a series of preferential policies to develop Tarim red deer breeding industry and promote industrialized operation, established Tarim red deer association, registered "Tarim" red deer and its product trademarks, applied artificial breeding technology to improve varieties, and implemented foreign investment projects. Due to the introduction of a series of related measures, the scale of red deer breeding in Shaya county has been accelerated. At present, there are 32,000 Tarim red deer in Shaya county, including 9,000 Tarim red deer raised artificially. The annual output of velvet antler is 2.5 tons, which can increase the per capita income of farmers and herdsmen in the county by nearly 20 yuan every year. In 2006, under the leadership of the Red Deer Association, the technology and equipment of velvet antler slicing were introduced in Shaya County, which expanded the consumption market of velvet antler products and promoted the sales of products, so that the production of red deer in Shaya County entered a new stage.
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