The swineherd is also very interesting. This bachelor of management from Sichuan Agricultural University has been concentrating on raising pigs at home for six years, and has not taken the civil service exam or applied for the position of the company. The pig cooperative he led has 12 pig farms, with 200,000 live pigs, more than 400 members/kloc-0, and assets of more than 20 million yuan.
On the evening of June 5438+065438+1October 19, 2008, the auditorium of China People's Political Consultative Conference was brightly lit. At the award ceremony of "I * * forge ahead in my motherland" sponsored by China Youth Social Service Center and the Propaganda Department of the Communist Youth League Central Committee, Long Bo expressed his dream: to explore environmentally friendly farming, improve pork quality and popularize simple pig raising methods. I hope pig farmers all over the world can raise pigs easily.
Laughter accompanied by applause was given to this thin young man from Sichuan.
It's interesting to chat with Longbo. At first you thought it was just scripted, supplemented by advanced and typical materials. After chatting for a long time, you will find that this swineherd is unusual-
Pig, pig, pig, the thought of raising pigs makes my heart beat.
Long Bo came home with his bag and diploma, and the idea of raising pigs just came out. My dad almost lost his head: "You can raise pigs without studying. Why do I spend so much money for you to go to college? "
No matter how the son explained it, the parents firmly disagreed: if you want to raise pigs, you can go far away to raise them or go outside to pick up garbage. Don't make a fool of yourself at home anyway.
Raising pigs has been Longbo's dream for several years. He majored in enterprise management, and his father supported this volunteer-enterprises are generally in the city, so you don't have to go back to the countryside to do business management.
My father has been raising pigs for more than ten years, and my son's tuition depends entirely on those sows and piglets. When he came home from his freshman holiday, Longbo brought back 600 packs of new pig feed developed by a research institution in the school. This feed only feeds 1 kg pigs a day, and it grows meat. At first, no one believed it. My father tried it and it worked well. Convinced, he helped Longbo sell it in the market and sold it well.
In his sophomore year, Longbo became the general agent of this product in Xindu District, earning thousands of yuan a month at most. "The potential of agriculture is really great, and selling feed can also make money." After the attempt, Longbo's future design is very clear: developing a career in rural areas, specifically raising pigs.
"Because you are so familiar with it, my father's traditional farming methods are very different from those abroad. I think it can be done with a little new technology and new ideas. " Long Bo said he was an idealist. He became very excited when he thought of those bright prospects. If he can't sleep, he has to take a walk on the playground once or twice.
In July 2000, Long Bo ended his college life. "When I graduated, I asked my classmates if they would like to go home with me to raise pigs. Those who study animal husbandry, veterinary medicine and animal medicine don't go, I do it alone. "
Girlfriend Wang Xu advised Long Bo to "take care of parents' feelings" and suggested "giving parents a transitional period". So, Longbo packed his backpack and returned to the city. After working in a company for a month, he resigned. The idea of raising pigs is "like a poisonous snake, it grows slowly and makes you breathless".
In July of 200 1 year, my girlfriend graduated. The first sentence that Wang Xu received when he saw Longbo was: "Brother, let's raise pigs together."
Egged on by his girlfriend, plus a one-year "transition period", Longbo, who tried to reunite his dream of raising pigs, was driven out of the house by his father and had to go to the construction site of the university town with his girlfriend to set up a stall.
Make money by setting up stalls or building pig houses. During their college years, they saved 80,000 yuan through work-study programs, and a little more would be enough. They wholesale gloves and rubber shoes and earned 20,000 yuan after 8 months.
Seeing that they stubbornly believed that their nine cows could not be pulled back, their parents had to give in and gave their son more than an acre of private land to build a pig farm. In February, 2002, 65438 "Agricultural University Fine Variety Pig Farm" was completed.
Easily raise pigs and raise happy pigs.
The family did a division of labor, and the father picked green feed and cleaned; Longbo is responsible for feeding management, reducing costs and cultivating new varieties; Wang Xu, who studies food engineering, is in charge of feed formulation, aiming at low cost, high quality and big profit.
Raising pigs is not a good job. My father used to keep three sows and several fat pigs all day. In his sophomore year, Long Bo went to the school's experimental pig-raising base to work and study. There, he was shocked to see the feeding equipment imported from Italy.
"How much food pigs eat every day is automatic. Calculate the food intake according to the weight of the pig. When pigs stand up, they will show their weight and feed them automatically. Too advanced. "
I saw the gap and the prospect. "I think raising pigs is too dry. It is backward and traditional, which shows that there is huge space. "
Longbocha learned that in Germany, the goal of some modern ecological pig farms is to "raise happy pigs and eat fresh and tender meat". They measure the quality of pigs not only by feeding conditions, but also by living environment. Farmers generally choose a comfortable and relaxed environment so that pigs have enough living space to play, eat, walk or sleep.
If we want to free pigs from heavy labor, we need to find new ways to keep pigs happy, so that we can have high-quality pork.
Longbo thinks that the local black pig will have the best quality if its weight is controlled at about 60 kg. So how can we control the pig's food intake? The most effective way is to make pigs eat less. Pigs don't even have enough to eat, so what can we talk about happiness? Since ancient times, there has never been such a saying that pigs are not allowed to eat.
Wang Xu dry powder feed was successfully developed in time, which played a key role. This dry powder feed is rich in nutrition, easy to feed and easy to control food intake, which completely solves the problem of controlling the size of black pigs in Longbo.
Longbo strictly limits feeding time and food intake. Each pig is only fed with dry powder feed twice a day, and each meal does not exceed one and a half Jin, but the body shape and coat color are not affected. "In the process of feeding, it is simply that the labor efficiency has increased by more than ten times. A breeder can feed 1200 pigs. "
In April 2003, as soon as their first batch of 60 piglets were released, they were quickly snapped up by farmers who heard the news.
In March 2004, improved pigs were produced after 12 breeding. Compared with ordinary pigs, improving pigs to eat one-third of the feed not only saves money, but also saves the labor of breeders. More importantly, the price of this kind of pig is more than twice as high as that of ordinary varieties. From the day it was born, purebred pigs became a hot commodity in local hotels and restaurants.
The local people call the pig bought from college student Longbo "Longbo pig". Longbo thought it was indecent, so he applied to register the trademark of pig plucking. In English, "courage" means courage.
Standardized feeding management, branding, chain operation and the establishment of pig industry cooperatives are all progressing smoothly. Longbo's income is management fees and share dividends, members get technical support and information, and economies of scale begin to appear.