Pearls of the Grasslands
2 min readPeople outside Xinjiang often discuss why the roasted mutton of Xinjiang is delicious, and they conclude the reasons: the unique spice cumin, the sheep there “eat herbs, drink mineral water, and take the gold road. refers to the living environment, rare herbs chilly sweet spring water are everywhere and the land is full of gold and other minerals.
However, Xinjiang residents often jokingly argue where more delicious mutton is There are many versions, sheep of Altay, of Barkol grassland in Hami, or of Keping County in Aksu eating Qamgur, in fact, as long as the sheep in Xinjiang, they are all yakexi(good).
Whichever county you are, you will find the traces of the flock. Especially in the vast grassland at south and north of Mt. Tianshan, white sheep flocks are everywhere, like pearls rolling on the green blanket. Therefore, they are also called”the pearls of the grassland.
“Pearls are very expensive, so people may buy insurance for the cattle and sheep in Xinjiang.
“In my family, 14 sheep were frozen to death with the loss of 7,560 Yuan, but the insurance company makes the compensation for us. The policy insurance is quite nice, I am very grateful to the Government and insurance company.in2012, the herdsman Nuryeke Tuolihan bought the livestock policy insurance for his 56 sheep with the insurance premium of five Yuan each, and he received the compensation of 7,560 Yuan on the compensating conference.
Nuryeke Tuolihan is a herdsman in Jeminay County, the County of Altay Prefecture is only one of the three experimental units of livestock policy insurance in Xinjiang, the other two are the Qapqal Xibe Autonomous County of Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture and Manas County of Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture. A total of 104,700 livestock have participated in the insurance in the three experimental counties until by now.
Why the premium for each sheep was only five Yuan The reason was that Herding Office of the autonomous region offered the subsidy of 1 million Yuan to each experimental county, mainly for premium subsidies, funding grants and so on. Meanwhile, the county-level finance also made the subsidy in proportion. If the value of a sheep is 1,200 Yuan, and then the premium would be 60 Yuan but the farmers and herdsmen only need to pay 5 Yuan.
