Hongyuan County, Aba Prefecture, is rich in natural resources, with an altitude of 3,500 meters above sea level, where more than 200 kinds of natural grasses and more than 850 kinds of medicinal plants grow, and more than 730,000 hectares of natural forage resources. Animal husbandry is the pillar industry of Hongyuan, and Maiwa yaks forage freely, conceive and lactate naturally in this natural grassland. Every drop of Hongyuan yak milk is a gift from the Tibetan Plateau.
Hongyuan Yak Dairy Co., Ltd. established a factory in Hongyuan in 1956 and began to develop the processing and manufacturing of yak milk products, mainly producing "Hongyuan Yak Milk" and "Hongyuan Yak Milk Powder". After more than 60 years of precipitation, it has developed and grown into a large-scale, full-breed and international-level organic yak dairy production enterprise, and has become the only state-level key leading enterprise of agricultural industrialization in Aba Prefecture.
At present, the company has a yak milk powder production line (5 packaging lines), a liquid milk production line, a butter production line, a casein production line, and has been equipped with 56 sets of Tianrun Xindong brand mobile milk collection platforms and 14 constant temperature milk tankers. It has an annual processing capacity of 100,000 tons of yak fresh milk and 140,000 tons of milk powder production capacity.
Under the condition of full production, the output value can reach about 4.5 billion yuan, 2,000 jobs, covering 11 counties in the border areas of Sichuan, Gansu and Qingdao provinces, and directly benefiting more than 40,000 herdsmen.
The original intention of the company is to drive local farmers and herdsmen to get rid of poverty and become rich and increase income. Hongyuan Yak Dairy insists on purchasing the herdsmen's fresh milk at a protective price, and makes every effort to expand the scope of milk collection. According to the distance of the pasture, a milk collection station is established in the middle of the area to ensure that the herdsmen can send fresh milk to the mobile milk collection platform of Xindong Machinery in the first time every day to ensure the quality of milk.
Nowadays, through the construction of the milk source system of "milk source highway + mobile milk station", more and more farmers and herdsmen are willing to sell their yak fresh milk here, which is not only a considerable income, but also convenient and trouble-free. According to the relevant person in charge of Hongyuan Yak Dairy Co., Ltd., the county's milk collection scope has covered more than 90% of herdsmen.
In addition, Hongyuan Yak Dairy also conducts professional knowledge training for herdsmen, improves herdsmen's knowledge and technical literacy in yak breeding, cultivates local talents, and hires local herdsmen as the person in charge of milk sources, so as to promote regional economic and social development.
Over the years, based on the advantages of a strong county in animal husbandry, Hongyuan County has always adhered to green development, promoted industrial revitalization, continuously consolidated the foundation for the modernization of grassland animal husbandry, and basically formed the "Hongyuan model" of grassland ecological protection, high-quality development of animal husbandry, and continuous income increase of herdsmen, and embarked on a new journey of seizing the highland of modern development of animal husbandry in the grassland of northwest Sichuan, leading the transformation and upgrading of animal husbandry and the improvement of energy level.