Tongxin beach mutton is a geographical indication product of agricultural products.

Tongxin County of Ningxia is located in the middle of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, covering an area of 8,433 square kilometers. Tongxin County, located at the junction of Loess Plateau and Inner Mongolia Plateau, is one of the livestock owners' producing areas in Ningxia. The climate here is dry and rich in pasture, and the sheep industry has been quite developed since ancient times. The unique natural environment and thousands of years of artificial selection have cultivated Tan sheep, which is known as one of the five treasures of Ningxia. Ningxia Tan sheep is a unique long-tailed fat sheep in the world, and its coarse hair is used for fur. Most tan sheep are white and generally weigh 30 to 50 kilograms.

Ram spiral angle is big and curved, extending outward, very strong and fierce. The coat is heterogeneous, with a length exceeding 10 cm, thin and soft. Tan sheep has a long-standing reputation, mainly relying on the preciousness of lamb skin. Tan sheep are slaughtered and skinned about 30 days after birth, and after fine processing, they become "two hairs", which means "gray hairs". Here is the meaning of "white" borrowed from it. Ermao's hair is about 8 cm long, with white color and jade luster, and its flowers are very beautiful. As thin as paper, Ermao is not only tough, soft and uniform, but also very light, so it is called "light wool". What is even more commendable is Mao Mao's ear, which is moist and crystal clear, showing a unique bending and soft squeezing shape, such as undulating waves, so it is also known as the "nine bends". If the leather board is turned upside down and lifted vertically and horizontally, the white hair ears naturally droop in order, just like an ice cone dumping, and the Pinghu ripples; Shake it gently again, as if the jade falls on the shore and the pear blossoms are dancing, which makes it feel lighter and more moving. Men's and women's leather clothes made of Tan sheep's hair are comfortable, elegant and have a unique charm. Tan sheep not only has excellent fur, but also tastes delicious.

Its meat fat is even, the meat is tender, and it is not fishy or rotten. The famous Donglaishun mutton in Beijing is often used as the main ingredient, especially the mutton obtained from two kinds of fur, which can be comparable to chicken whether steamed or braised. From ancient times to the present, "mutton wine" has always been a delicious food praised by people. For hundreds of years, Tan sheep have only been distributed in parts of Ningxia, Gansu, Shaanxi and Inner Mongolia, among which Ningxia Tan sheep have the largest number and the best quality, and Ningxia Tan sheep is the best in concentric pastoral areas. At one time, more than a dozen provinces and regions introduced breeding, all of which changed to varying degrees and the quality declined. This is because the breeding of Tan sheep must be carried out in the warm and arid grassland with suitable climate. Tongxin county, located in the arid grassland at the eastern foot of Helan Mountain, has all the conditions for the growth and reproduction of Tan sheep and has become the largest Tan sheep producing area in China. As the saying goes, "relying on mountains to eat mountains, relying on the sea to eat the sea", concentricity is of course "relying on sheep to eat sheep". At present, more than 80% people in Tongxin County eat "Tan Yang Rice", and Tan Yang occupies a first-class position in the hearts of the people in the county.

territorial scope

Tongxin county is located at east longitude10517 "-10641"and north latitude 36 34 "-37 32", bordering Yanchi county in the northeast, Huanxian county in Gansu province in the southeast, Yuanzhou district in the south and Haiyuan county and Yuanzhou county in the west. The production scale is 170000, and the total annual output is 1050 tons.

Natural ecological environment and human and historical factors

(1) Soil landform: The landform inclines from southeast to northwest, and hills, gullies, terraces, gullies, loess, hilly land and alluvial fans are distributed alternately, with complex topography and criss-crossing gullies. Magaozhuang Township is characterized by vertical and horizontal ravines, deep ravines, high in the south and low in the north; The soil types are complex, including 7 kinds of * * *, among which calcareous soil and black loessial soil are the most. The soil organic matter content is low, with an average organic matter content of 0.85%, lacking nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, and the soil fertility is poor. Calcareous soil accounts for 57.8% of the total area and is distributed in the vast arid areas north of the city. The soil layer is thin and the organic matter content is low, generally 0.68%. Black loessial soil accounts for 32. 1%, which is distributed in the humid area in the southeast of the county. The soil layer is deep, and the organic matter content is generally 0.86, which is suitable for developing agriculture. Other soils: there are gray cinnamon soil salt, newly accumulated soil and gravel land, with an area of 10. 1% and a pH value of 5.5-9.

(2) Hydrological situation: The main rivers in Tongxin County are Qingshui River, Kushui River and Changsha River. Kushui River and Changsha River are seasonal rivers, which dry up in dry season and have little water in rainy season. Qingshui River is a tributary of the Yellow River, with a total length of 320 kilometers, a county flow of 50 kilometers and a drainage area of 4,248 square kilometers. Hydrological characteristics are that the water quality is rich in sediment and high in salt content. Weizhou Town and Xiamaguan Town: The flow of China Sweet Water River is 0.05.

M3/ s, salinity of 6.96g/L, pH value of 5.5-9, salty and bitter water, which can be drunk by sheep and livestock in season.

(3) Climate: The county belongs to a typical continental climate, with dry and little rain, abundant sunshine and large evaporation. The annual average temperature is 8.6℃, the hottest July, the average temperature is 22.8℃, and the extreme maximum temperature is 37.9℃. The extreme minimum temperature is -27.3℃, the annual average precipitation is 272.6 mm, and the evaporation of 224 1mm is 8.2 times that of precipitation. The annual sunshine lasts for more than 3024 hours, and the frost-free period is 120-2 18 days. The annual average rainfall in Weizhou Town is 252.9mm, the annual average temperature is 8.7℃, the frost-free period is14184 days, the annual average wind speed is 3m/s, the north wind in winter and spring is Dorsey, with an average gale of magnitude 8 or above and magnitude 29, and there are many southeast winds in summer and autumn. The average annual temperature in Magaozhuang Township is 6.7℃, the average precipitation is about 387.8 mm, the average frost-free period is 182 days, and the dominant wind direction throughout the year is northwest wind.

(4) Human history: there are 10 townships, 2 administrative committees and 2 16 administrative villages in the county, with a total of 75,600 households and a total population of 322,400, including 22,500 agricultural households and 247,700 agricultural population. The Hui population is 264,400, accounting for 82% of the total population. The total area of the county is 4445.76 square kilometers, accounting for 32.48% of the total land area, and the water area is 24 1 10,000 mu, accounting for 45.89% of the cultivated land area. Tongxin county is a gathering area of Hui people, and the population of Hui people in the county accounts for more than 82% of the total population. Most Hui people have traditional farming customs. Tongxin County Tan Sheep is carefully selected by Inner Mongolia sheep through special geographical environment and the vast number of Hui people for many years, which makes the meat products produced by Tongxin County Tan Sheep have unique local characteristics.

Production technical requirements

(1) Selection of origin and special contents: Muslim beach mutton must be produced in Xiamaguan Town, Weizhou Town and sanxiang town in Magaozhuang Town, Tongxin County, and the required forage is produced in sanxiang town, and the additives and veterinary drugs meet the relevant regulations on the production of pollution-free animal products.

(2) Variety selection and special requirements: The breed must be Tan sheep produced in sanxiang town, aged from 45 days (lamb) to 3 years (adult sheep).

(3) Production process management: the breeding pens are disinfected once a day; Drinking fountains should always be kept clean and disinfected once a week; Ensure that the sheep mattress material is dry and free from mildew; Clean the fence regularly every day; Dead sheep are transported away in time for burning or deep burial, sheep manure is transported to the designated place in time, and the treatment method of accumulating bio-heat or drying is used as agricultural fertilizer.

Breeders should have a health check-up, and those suffering from the following diseases are not allowed to engage in feed and breeding: dysentery.

Diseases, typhoid fever, campylobacter, viral hepatitis and other digestive tract infectious diseases (including pathogen carriers); Tuberculosis and brucellosis; Various infectious skin diseases; Other hazards to food safety and zoonosis.

According to the requirements of the Epidemic Prevention Law, combined with the local actual situation, carry out vaccination work; Accept the irregular monitoring and supervision of the supervising agencies for animal epidemic prevention every year; Farmers are forbidden to slaughter animals at will. Dead sheep should be treated strictly and harmlessly. The areas, facilities and means of transport where the corpse comes into contact must be strictly cleaned and disinfected; When a suspected infectious disease is found or there is an infectious disease nearby, active measures such as quarantine 1 should be taken immediately, and the local animal husbandry and veterinary administrative department should be reported as soon as possible;

Farmers must implement foot-and-mouth disease vaccination in strict accordance with the relevant provisions of the state; Inoculate other vaccines according to the requirements of the relevant departments of the state, province, city (prefecture) and district (county). When sheep are threatened by an infectious disease, preventive measures should be taken in time to carry out emergency immunization; Farmers should cooperate with the local quarantine department to monitor tuberculosis and brucellosis in the whole flock of sheep in spring and autumn every year;

All the drugs purchased by farmers come from production enterprises with veterinary drug production licenses and product approval numbers; Or suppliers with import licenses. And all kinds of purchase procedures are complete; Farmers buy drugs with veterinary prescriptions and use drugs rationally under the guidance of technicians. Veterinarians using veterinary drugs in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases in sheep must comply with the relevant provisions of the Veterinary Drug Code of People's Republic of China (PRC), Veterinary Drug Standards of People's Republic of China (PRC), Veterinary Drug Quality Standards, Veterinary Biological Products Quality Standards, Imported Veterinary Drugs Quality Standards and Provisions on the Use of Feed Drug Additives. The use of veterinary drug labels must comply with the provisions of the Regulations on the Administration of Veterinary Drugs. Mutton sheep must be immunized with vaccines that meet the quality standards of veterinary biological products; Farmers must keep records of the use and treatment of veterinary drugs.

Feed nutritional additives and general feed additive products are in the list of feed additives allowed by the state, and it is forbidden to add and use animal-derived feed in feed; The purchased additive products shall come from enterprises that have obtained product production licenses and product approval numbers; Sensory should have a certain freshness, with the characteristics of color, fragrance, taste and texture, without mildew, deterioration, moth-eaten, caking and peculiar smell; The use of feed additives should follow the usage and dosage specified in the product feed label. The withdrawal period of medicinal feed additives should comply with the provisions of the Guide to the Use of Feed Drug Additives.

The feed used by farmers is prepared and fed according to the formula provided by technicians.

Farmers should record the use of feed and report problems to technicians in time.

(4) Provisions on the collection and slaughter of products: the county animal health supervision office shall conduct pre-slaughter and post-slaughter quarantine, and slaughter according to the halal slaughter method: stop feeding, biopsy, slaughter, hanging, decapitation, peeling, chest incision (evisceration), cleaning, dichotomy, location and sale.

(5) Production record requirements: all sheep of farmers should have accurate, reliable and complete records, including introduction, purchase, breeding, lambing, lactation, weaning, weight gain and feed consumption; The origin, pedigree and main production performance records of sheep; Feed, feed sources, formulas and use records of various additives; Disease prevention and control records; Sales records shall be kept for at least 3 years.

4. Typical product quality characteristics and product quality and safety regulations

(1) External sense: Weizhou Town, Xiamaguan Town and Magaozhuang Township, the main producing areas of Tan sheep in Tongxin County, are the core areas of Tan sheep breeding and protection in our county. The produced Tan sheep skin is famous for its light, thin, curved, beautiful, white and shiny hair.

(2) Intrinsic quality: the mutton is tender, with small smell, red and shiny muscles, white fat, dense muscle fibers, toughness and elasticity, slightly dry or air-dried in pieces, wet and non-sticky, with the inherent smell of mutton, no peculiar smell, clear and transparent, with fat caked on the surface, and with the inherent fragrance of mutton.

(3) Safety requirements: the environment of the place of origin conforms to the standards of Drinking Water Quality for Pollution-free Livestock and Poultry Food (NY5027-200 1) and Water for Pollution-free Livestock and Poultry Processing (NY5028-200 1), and lead, arsenic, chromium, cadmium and bhc meet the national safety and hygiene standards for livestock products after testing.

Packaging identification and other relevant regulations.

Product packaging adopts paper standard, with a diameter of 30mm, and is packaged separately. Before transportation, the supervising agency for animal epidemic prevention shall conduct quarantine inspection in accordance with the relevant provisions of the state and issue a quarantine certificate. Only those who pass the inspection can be listed or slaughtered. Transport vehicles shall be disinfected before transport and after use. Don't stop, drink or eat in towns and markets during transportation. The geographical indications of "Tongxin Beach Mutton (Muslim)" agricultural products were affixed or printed on the packaging when the products were put on the market.