Zhang Lin, Wuzhuang Village, Shangzhou: you have to rely on yourself to get rid of poverty and become rich.

"now that the country's poverty alleviation policy is so good, we have to muster up our efforts to do a good job. We mainly have to rely on ourselves to get rid of poverty and become rich." On the afternoon of May 25, at Zhang Lin's pig farm, he told reporters while adding feed to the trough.

Zhang Lin, 47, is a villager of Wuzhuang Village, Yangyuhe Town, Shangzhou District, Shangluo City, Shaanxi Province. his daughter is in junior high school and his son is in junior high school. in 2008, his wife could not do heavy work after she broke her left leg. "I used to do odd jobs in the city. I couldn't earn less than a year, and I was living a tight life."

In 2015, Zhang Lin returned to his village and planted Salvia miltiorrhiza, Schizonepeta tenuifolia and Jerusalem artichoke with policy support, and his income was guaranteed. However, there has always been an idea in Zhang Lin's mind: poverty alleviation cadres have repeatedly come home to publicize poverty alleviation policies, tried every means to solve the difficulties of the masses, and paid a lot for poor households to shake off poverty and become rich. if they no longer take action to shake off poverty and become rich, it is really unreasonable to do something if the policy is so good. So, at the beginning of this year, he set up a pig farm through poverty alleviation discount loans and self-raised funds to start his own business.

There are a total of 24 pens in the pig farm, which can raise more than 200 pigs. Affected by funds and the recent market, Zhang Lin has raised only 28 pigs, including 6 sows. "to fill the circle, you still have to invest more than NT $100,000. recently, the market is not good, and you don't have any extra money on hand, so you can raise these first, so the risk can be a little less. when these pig babies are raised and come out of the fence, they will slowly expand their scale, and it will not happen all of a sudden to shake off poverty and become rich." Zhang Lin said.

In addition to the impact of capital and market conditions, Zhang Lin believes that he has not reached the level of large-scale aquaculture in terms of breeding technology, and it is necessary to improve his technical level as soon as possible. On weekdays, Zhang Lin, on the one hand, learns pig raising skills through the Internet, on the other hand, he learns from the old farmers in the village. He hopes to get more technical support in the process of getting rid of poverty, improve the level of scientific breeding, and lay a good foundation for large-scale breeding in the future.

"there are several pig farmers nearby, all of which are not too large. I just thought that we would make good efforts to do a good job in pig farms, first lift ourselves out of poverty, and then strive to lead us to start a business together." For the future, Zhang Lin has his own long-term plan, start steadily, gradually develop and grow, and form a joint force with other pig farmers to drive the common development of the masses.

After taking care of the pig farm, it was more than 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Zhang Lin and his wife went home and hurriedly had lunch. They picked up two baskets of mustard seedlings and went to the ground. "it didn't rain yesterday, but it's such a fine day today that we have to plant the seedlings of Schizonepeta tenuifolia quickly." Under the hillside not far from home, the Zhang Linjia family has a quarter of the sandy land, and some of the seedlings have been planted before. Zhang Lin's wife planed the pit with a hoe at a certain distance. Zhang Lin planted seedlings in the pit. The two cooperated with each other and quickly planted the seedlings of Chrysanthemum mustard on a large area of land. After the guidance of Zhang Lin, the reporter tried to help them plant seedlings, because the terrain is relatively steep, just standing there has been difficult, it is not easy to plant seedlings.

"Salvia miltiorrhiza, Schizonepeta tenuifolia and Jerusalem artichoke have been planted a total of 7 mu this year, and the income can be increased a little more when there is a harvest. As long as we work in a down-to-earth manner, I believe there is always something to look forward to." Looking at the well-planted Schizonepeta in front of him, Zhang Lin said to the reporter.