Is wild boar more popular than domestic pork?

The problem of food safety makes people begin to think about what is good for their health and what food is green, coupled with people's pursuit of new and strange, so the special breeding industry such as wild boar and pheasant is gradually on the rise.

Recently, after investigating the special aquaculture industry in our province, the reporter found that behind the brilliance of special aquaculture, there was an unknown handful of bitter tears.

Watch TV to raise wild boars

On Miaoqian Mountain, more than 20 kilometers west of Jinyuan District, Taiyuan City, there are dense trees, hares and pheasants shuttling freely through the forest. Three years ago, Zhou Jian alone came to the forest at an altitude of more than 1600 meters above sea level in Miaoqian Mountain to become a "wild boar herder."

When the reporter saw Zhou Jian, he was standing in the pigsty watching his "babies" eat. He divided the "baby" into three batches and fed it in turn, first for big pigs, then for medium pigs, and finally for piglets. Watching the scene of the wild boars fighting for me, and listening to their cries from time to time, Zhou Jian smiled and murmured, "Little fool."

Zhou Jian, 35, made a living before becoming a "wild boar herd", selling noodles, opening a restaurant and opening a factory. Three years ago, he came across the program of raising wild boars and getting rich on the agricultural channel of CCTV, and he came up with the idea of doing this job. "I went up to the mountain one day to have a look, but I moved it up the next day." Zhou Jian's wife said he seemed possessed. Zhou Jian rented a relatively flat area in Miaoqian Mountain and began wild boar farming. The biggest difference between raising wild boars and domestic pigs is that wild boars must have a "playground". Zhou Jian not only built a "playground" for the wild boar, but also built a "swimming pool" for the wild boar, where the wild boar can chase and bask in the sun freely. Except for the enclosed "playground", the whole mountain is an amusement park for wild boars. Every morning, after the wild boars had eaten, Zhou Jian put them into the mountains. At first, they chased each other. In the twinkling of an eye, they went into the forest and disappeared from sight. At this time, you can only hear the swishing sound of wild boars walking through the forest and the sound of wild boars biting wild apricot kernels. "if you put the wild boar into the mountain forest, won't you lose it?" The reporter asked worriedly. "at about 15:00, the wild boars come back from all directions, and it's time for them to eat in the afternoon," Zhou Jian said. "

The money is tight to sell wild boar at a loss.

The wild boar raised by Zhou Jian likes to eat leaves and drink springs in the mountains. "the wild boar can't just eat grass. It has to add some corn flour so that it can grow well." Under his careful breeding, wild boars grow so fast that they can be out of the pen in six to eight months. "at present, there are more than 100 big pigs and more than 100 little pigs." Zhou Jian said that although the scale was still small, he dared not conceive any more sows.

Zhou Jian said that the wild boar is delicious and nutritious. At present, the market price is 25 yuan per jin, compared with 35 yuan last winter. But at present, his sales channel mainly depends on piecemeal sales, the quantity is very small. Some time ago, due to the broken chain of funds, I was forced to sell 20 live pigs at the price of 7 yuan per jin. The pigs sold have been raised for two years, and although the cost of a jin of wild boar is about 13 yuan, they can only be sold at a loss. "isn't this a wild boar sold at a domestic pig price?" The reporter asked. Zhou Jian said that every day these wild boars have to eat and drink, the cost is more than 1000 yuan. He is now regulating the increase in the number of wild boars, because with the increase in the number of wild boars, his costs are rising, but sales can not keep up.

Although the scale of Zhou Jian's wild boar farm is small, he still has a certain advantage when there are not many wild boars in Taiyuan. However, Zhou Jian said that this is the contradiction, because there is little, so people's awareness is low. There is no sensory difference between domestic boar and wild boar meat, and it is impossible to let people know that they are selling genuine wild boar, not domestic boar.

It is difficult to raise or not to raise.

"I didn't expect that wild boar meat is so hard to sell." Zhou Jian loves and hates this project. He said that he had visited the south, where game business was booming, and wild boar meat sold for 40 yuan per jin. What made him wonder was why it didn't work when he got to Shanxi. He said that his hometown is in Yuanping, where the project could have been put, and the cost was very low. Later, considering the market problem, he chose the farm in Jinyuan District in order to be closer to the city and facilitate transportation. But things went against his wishes, and he was not reconciled.

How can we open up the market? Zhou Jian did not use his head less. He once thought of joining up with powerful pork slaughtering and processing plants to engage in small packaging listing or direct marketing, but according to his current scale, it is difficult to achieve such a "marriage".