Chen Guangche: boss Niu ushered in the spring of getting rich

Chen Guangche is taking care of the buffalo.

On April 16, by the river at the foot of Xianshangang in Hetang Town, Gutian County, a group of buffaloes were grazing on grass or lying in the mud to rest. Chen Guangche, the "cattle herd", was carefully grooming the cow "big ash".

"Dashi is a model worker in our family. When I have no time, I rely on it to lead the cattle to find food." As if he understood what Lao Chen said, "Big Grey" raised his huge head and rubbed his master's shoulder again and again, making Chen Guangche laugh.

Chen Guangche, 49 years old, is a farmer in Xianshan Village. With the help of the state's precise poverty alleviation policy and the help of cadres stationed in the village, he has followed the cattle buttocks all the year round, and has unwittingly become a local well-known cattle raising expert and a demonstration household for poverty alleviation. The villagers affectionately call him "Niu Zong". He not only got rid of the hat of poor families, but also built a two-story building.

Ill-fated fate--

An "iron man" who is pressed and bent.

Xianshan Village is located in the west of Hetang Town, 3 kilometers away from the center of the town, beautiful scenery, rich products, especially simple folk customs, is a well-known civilized village.

In the past, when villagers mentioned Chen Guangche, they always shook their heads and lamented the ill-fated fate of their family. Chen Guangche was born just over a year ago, and his mother fell ill and died. over the years, he and his frail father, Chen Kaiyuan, lived in a humble ancestral house. A few years ago, his eighty-year-old father suffered from an eye disease again. Because he had no money for treatment, he was blind in one eye. The poor family scared away one girl after another, and Chen Guangche is still unmarried. Every day he not only had to get up early and late in the morning to take care of his father's daily life, but also to go out to do some odd jobs to support his family, and the burden of life bent the strong man's waist early.

Chen Guangche dropped out of primary school after more than a year, returned home and put the cattle in someone else's home, and has since formed a bond with the cattle. Chen Guangche said that on the first day he picked up the bullwhip, his father warned him that "hard work does not necessarily make a lot of money, but laziness will certainly starve." This sentence is deeply engraved in his heart.

However, herding cattle to others can never get rid of poverty. "by the end of the year, when we calculate the money earned, apart from the expenses, there is little left." The tight days made Chen Guangche feel sad and always wanted to find a way while he was young.

In 1995, on recommendation, Chen Guangche took out what little savings his family had and turned to raise the local white-feathered muscovy duck. It is not easy to become a monk halfway. Due to technical and marketing reasons, Chen Guangche's way of raising ducks has been stumbling, but he gritted his teeth and stuck to it.

The hardest part of raising ducks is disease control. Chen Guangche still remembers that it was 2005, and he could be regarded as a good hand at raising ducks for ten years, but he was still close to each other, and the ducks were hit by the plague. Anxious, he bought the vaccine from the animal husbandry station in the town overnight, and more than 200 ducks finally saved dozens. Not to mention the nearly 1,000 yuan spent on duck seedlings at the beginning of last year, I still owed more than 1000 yuan on feed credit.

In February 2015, Chen Guangche and his family were identified by Gutian County as poor households for filing and setting up cards at the provincial level.

Twists and turns--

The "old man" paved the way out of poverty.

Since the precise poverty alleviation work was carried out in Gutian County, Chen Guangche and his family have enjoyed various good policies, and the town has formulated a poverty alleviation plan according to the actual situation of his family. Wu Pengju, director of the town forestry public security police station, and Lao Chen formed a helping pair. The life of the old Chen family finally took a twist.

Together, Wu Pengju and Lao Chen and his son decided to start with raising cattle, which Chen Guangche was most familiar with. For one thing, Chen Guangche grew up raising cattle with experience and basic epidemic prevention skills; second, with economic development in recent years, many qualified villagers have moved away and there is more idle land. the most important thing is that Xianshan Village has a large mountain farm and good water resources. it just meets the needs of raising cattle, and there is no need for physical strength in management.

Through Wu Pengju's active campaign, in early 2016, Chen Guangche received 15000 yuan from the county agricultural bureau to help the poor, plus 5000 yuan raised by himself, Lao Chen bought back the first batch of three calves. "with the addition of the original two cows, I immediately felt that the house was lively." Lao Chen said, "at that time, I smiled from ear to ear, and the precise poverty alleviation policy gave me a good opportunity to shake off poverty and become rich!"

From then on, Chen Guangche and his father worked hard to raise cattle, working at sunrise and resting at sunset. At the same time, Wu Pengju helped him apply for the second batch of 5000 yuan of special subsidies from the central government for poverty alleviation, and also found professional guidance from livestock experts in the town to help Chen Guangche lift himself out of poverty and become rich with the help of the "old job" of raising cattle.

Raising cattle is hard work, and it takes a lot of work to clean up cow dung and feed cattle grass and water every day. For more than a year, Chen Guangche's family ran at both ends of the barn and climbed out of bed at 4 o'clock in the morning to mow grass, cut grass, feed cattle and clean cattle pens. Every time the cow got sick, he took good care of it. As the herd grew in size, father and son began to have a steady income.

Talking about last year's happiness, Chen Guangche broke his fingers and pointed: the first is raising cattle. Through the circular breeding model, he already has 16 buffaloes, large and small, and sold five calves at the end of last year with an income of more than 20,000 yuan. The second item is renting farm cattle. During the busy agricultural season, even people and cattle earn more than 10,000 yuan a day. The third is to make use of spare time to grow rice and harvest more than 500 kilograms of rice a year, thus solving the problem of food rations for the whole family. In a short period of more than a year, the old Chen family got rid of the hat of poor families.

Good things happen again and again--

The "old cowboy" has new expectations.

Today, the cattle industry has begun to take shape, and Chen Guangche has a more far-sighted vision. "with the development of modern agriculture, the model of renting and ploughing fields with people and cattle is bound to be eliminated. In the next step, I intend to continue to expand the scale of farming, because experts have said that with the improvement of people's living standards, beef consumption is increasing. " Lao Chen couldn't help laughing. "in addition, the barn has to be renovated and cattle stocked into sheds, all of which have to be done step by step."

At the end of last year, relying on the income of raising cattle, Chen Guangche and his son built a two-story building covering an area of more than 70 square meters in the open space next to the old house. Seeing that he was about to bid farewell to the dilapidated old house where he had lived for decades, Lao Chen was very excited. Every evening after he came home to settle the cow, he would come here to work for a while, whether it was picking up a few pickets of sand or putting on a few handfuls of cement, which made him feel very secure.

Chen Guangche's life is getting better, but he hasn't forgotten to help the villagers around him. "now that I'm living a good life, I can't just enjoy myself, but I also have to help my neighbors who are in trouble." Chen Guangche said so and did the same. Whenever other cattle farmers in the village come to ask for advice, he always answers patiently, when and how much the cattle are fed, keep warm in cold weather and ventilate in hot weather. He shared his experience of raising cattle with other poor households who raised cattle, hoping that they would be lifted out of poverty as soon as possible.

Speaking of expectations for the future, Chen Guangche blushed sheepishly. He said that the greatest hope is to find a wife. In the past, because the family was poor and the heart was weak, he could not raise his head in front of the girl. As a result, he procrastinated again and again, and now he is still alone. Chen Guangche said that now that the national policy is so good, he is prepared to set up professional farming cooperatives to allow people around them to buy shares and drive them to become rich together. He firmly believes that with the party's good policy, as long as he is industrious, he will certainly be able to get married and start a career!