LIVESTOCK HUSBANDRY CLIMATE OF THE STEPPE IN INNER MONGOLIA
内蒙古草原的畜牧业气候

The livestock husbandry Climate and Characteristics of the steppe in Inner Mongolia are as follows; abundant light energy and sunshine, severely cold and long winter, warmer and short summer,rare annual rainfall and high temperature mostly in summer.Four grass delts of forest-steppe, steppe, desert steppe and desert have been formed according to the regional differentiation of precipitation and temperature.The nutrition value of herbage in the studied area is higher.The height and product of the herbage are relevant to the precipitation during the herbage growth period.It is adequate that catties and horses are grazed in the east of the studied area with great precipitation, sheep in the middle east with medial precipitation, and goats and camels in the westeral part with less precipitation. Grass growth period can be divided into four stages of turning green, grow ing. mature and turning yellow owing to the cyclic change of climate.Therefore, livestock growing can be divided into four stages of reconversion.increasing weight, stable and decreasing weight period.Disaster weather of livestock Husbandry are as follows; drought, snow disaster, strong wind and isand storm.we must plant a great number of trees and grasses and develop water conservancy, canstruct livestock shed and increase the capacity against disasters and to prevent the lirestock from illness. Thus, the stable development of livestock husbandry can de ensured.