Technological requirements and advices of forage industry development in Shandong Province

With the development of modern agriculture, forage industry plays more and more important role in Shandong province. Forage planting has a long history in Shandong province and a local variety Wudi alfalfa becomes famous. Although scientific research system has been established and forage industry has showed a good prospect in Shandong province, forage industry development is not health due to market, technology and policy. Based on current status of forage industry development in the Shandong province, this study proposed the forage industry requirements for techniques from market, forage store and production, qualified forage and livestock, forage breeding and cultivar, and forage mechanization. This study also presented some advices for forage industry development in the Shandong Province as following, firstly, the government should put forward subsidy policy to encourage initiative in forage planting; secondly, it was effort to strengthen forage science and technology in breeding variety, forage production process, and mechanization; thirdly, promoting forage base construction and technical extension was good to forage industry chain construction; finally, forage industry in the Shandong province should get a further support from the national forage industrial technology system construction.