Abstract:

China ranks first in the world in both waterfowl production and consumption, leading the global development of the waterfowl industry. This study reviews the current application status of facilities and equipment across all stages of waterfowl farming in China, with a focus on the role of modern farming model of stacked cage systems in driving industrial upgrading. It also summarizes existing challenges in facility and equipment deployment and proposes key research and development directions for technological innovation in waterfowl farming equipment during the '15^th Five-Year Plan' period. Overall, China’s waterfowl farming technology system holds a globally dominant position. However, compared with more mature livestock sectors such as broiler and layer chicken farming, there remains significant room for improvement in areas including the modernization of farming concepts, the construction of intensive production models, the integrated application of precision technologies, and the development of synergistic strategies across the entire industrial chain. In response to current industrial transformation needs, there is an urgent requirement to advance core technologies and equipment in environmental intelligent control, precise behavioral monitoring, and dynamic disease prevention and control under the stacked cage farming model. Through the innovation of an integrated ‘process-equipment-standard’ farming system, the industry can achieve equipment-based upgrading and standardized production for efficient and healthy waterfowl farming. This paper aims to identify optimization paths and innovation directions for waterfowl farming facilities and equipment from a full-industry-chain perspective, providing a reference for the green, high-quality, and efficient transformation and upgrading of large-scale waterfowl farming in China.

Key words: livestock and poultry farming, waterfowl, three-dimensional cage farming, facilities and equipment, intelligent equipment