The new variety of Ashdan yak is bred by Yan Ping’s team at Lanzhou Institute of Husbandry and Pharmaceutical Sciences of CAAS together with the Datong Yak Farm of Qinghai Province, China. This work has been issued the National Certificate of New Breed of Livestock and Poultry of China. It provides the diverse variety for large-scale, intensive and standardized feeding of yaks, and plays an important leading role in the improvement of yak breeds, construction of yak breed supply system and transformation of yak feeding mode in China.

New variety and the certification of Ashdan yak