Swineherd halfway up the hillside: raising pigs ecologically is his hope of getting rich

After waiting for 15 minutes outside the fence in front of Wang Jiafa's house, Xie Fuhong, director of the Youfangling Community Supervision Committee, still did not see him. Director Xie and I walked slowly down the hill amid the barking of the rhubarb dog.

Wang Jiafa is Xie Fuhong's Bao Fu House. this time, when he entered the house to learn about the situation of getting rid of poverty, I followed him to investigate.

Before, Wang Jiafa worked as a farmer and went to work in the city in his spare time. Wang Jiafa is a man with ideas and is willing to shake off poverty and become rich through his own efforts. Just after the Spring Festival, with the help of Murakami, he applied for a discount loan of 50,000 yuan and began to raise pigs in his woodland.

Just as we walked out of the first gate, we heard the sound of Wang Jiafa driving the little pig. The voice of "nagging" was broken and cautious, lest a little pig might not keep up with the team.

"Master Wang, I was looking for you!" -- "what do you want from me?"

After hearing our call, Wang Jiafa began to stop and wait for us to cross the uneven road, climb over a fence and see him in camouflage. Around his feet were more than a dozen black, humming baby pigs, and some of them had gone to the grass by the water to eat grass.

After Wang Jiafa saw the master of the village supervision committee next to me, he saw an acquaintance, buried his head and folded a handful of leaves for the baby pigs at his feet, threw them, and carefully passed through their cracks and sat on the wood beside them. I took a careful breath.

Wang Jiafa said that at the beginning, he bought a total of 50 piglets, but now there are only 30 piglets left. In the past, when he was farming at home, he would raise one or two pigs in the pen, but it was a challenge for him to raise dozens of pigs on such a large scale. "lack of experience, lack of technology, has already lost 20 pigs."

According to Wang Jiafa's plan, unlike the six-month pig fencing time on the farm, the quality of pork raised in the mountain forest grows slowly, and it takes about eight months to reach 200jin. At that time, he can earn 2000 yuan per pig, but according to the current situation, it is good to keep the cost.

It is not an easy task to raise pigs ecologically halfway up the mountain. Xie Fuhong, a cadre of Bao Fu, has always worried that it is inconvenient for Wang Jiafa to use water to prevent piglets from getting sick. Wang Jiafa keeps repeating that the water source is actually very easy to solve. At last, Wang Jiafa stood up and pointed to the deep grass opposite, and then said slowly that there was water flowing down the mountain in that grass, so it was very convenient to use water.

Wang Jiafa was not willing to show others the difficulties he was facing. After repeated inquiries from Bao Fu cadres, Wang Jiafa said that his pig-raising facilities were still a little inadequate because of the large area of mountain and woodland. He needs some nets to ensure that the piglets will not get lost. In addition, there is still a shortage of reserve feed for piglets, and the family's more than three mu of land produces up to 500 jin of corn per mu, and the material produced is sometimes not enough for emergency.

When Wang Jiafa sent us away, we saw that his tricycle was full of broken corn, which Wang Jiafa had transported from home with a machine. now he is the only family on the mountain, and the cost of pulling the wire is too high to use. Wang Jiafa said that after he had fed the pigs and gained some experience, he was going to build another circle on the other side of the hillside, and his next income should be better than this one.

The mountain road was rugged. When Xie Fuhong and I turned from the bumpy mountain road, I habitually looked back. Wang Jiafa ran the piglets in the gully up to the slope, and the piglets ran into the circle, swinging their calves happily. After all the pigs entered the circle, Wang Jiafa closed the last gate.

Xie Fuhong mumbled to me as he walked: "I'll go back and see if I can get him any policies."

There was no electricity in the place where Wang Jiafa lived on the mountain, but the little pigs he raised became the light in his heart, giving him the hope of getting rid of poverty and becoming rich, accompanying him through every dark night on the hillside and greeting every beam of morning light.