I don't want to keep both husband and wife to herd cattle with a monthly salary of more than 10,000 yuan.

Comprehensive report on agriculture, rural areas and farmers express: Liu Xiaolun, a 32-year-old villager of Shanqi Village, Dongtun Township, Xixiu District, gave up a high salary of more than 10,000 yuan a month and went back to his hometown to run a cattle farm in order to turn the resource advantage of his hometown into wealth. In order to be good, he and his wife Zhen Nanzhen keep company with cattle every day.

Recently, the reporter drove from the village committee of Shanqi along a Mao highway to the foot of the mountain, along the sheep's intestine path up the mountain to the pass of the mountain. The cry of driving cattle came from the valley not far away. Liu Xiaolun, who was thin and black, was driving the cattle to the small pond at the foot of the mountain to drink water. 50 meters away from the small pond, a shed is built against the hill, the scaffolding is made of wood and the roof is covered with plastic sheeting. On the hillside, about 500 meters from the cowshed, there are two simple houses made of plastic sheeting and wood. In front of the house, Zhen Nanzhen, five years younger than Liu Xiaolun, is mixing corn flour with water to supplement the cattle.

"We came here to raise cattle in March this year, and now we have 60 cattle, most of them calves." Liu Xiaolun said that in those years when I worked in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, I went home every Spring Festival and looked at the hills covered with tender green grass. I thought that grass is a kind of green resource that can also be turned into wealth.

In order to turn the resources of their hometown into wealth, Liu Xiaolun and his wife decided to put their working savings into the cattle farm after a period of planning. In February this year, they built a simple cowshed and two simple houses in the foothills of Miao Village in Shanqi Village. Then, Liu Xiaolun went to Ziyunge Tanghe Town to spend 90, 000 yuan to buy the first batch of 18 local yellow cattle, and a month later, he went to Guanling to spend 37000 yuan to buy a second batch of 8 local cattle. After sporadic purchases, at present, the number of cattle has reached 60, and a small cattle farm has basically been formed.

Since the establishment of the cattle farm, Liu Xiaolun and Zhen Nanzhen have made the cattle farm their home. in addition to buying daily necessities such as oil, salt, rice and corn to supplement cattle, they herd cattle during the day and stay in simple rooms at night. and planted tomatoes, tomatoes, pumpkins, peppers and other vegetable crops nearby.

"although we worked very hard in Ningbo, the average monthly income of the two of us was more than 10, 000 yuan to 20, 000 yuan." Zhen Nanzhen said that among the migrant workers, their salary is on the middle side. However, in order to make more money, I have to work overtime. In order to get double pay, they often work overtime on holidays and often feel unwell after a long period of time. With the support of the policy to encourage migrant workers to return home to start a business, they also want to start a business, so they go back to their hometown to raise cattle.

Liu Xiaolun said that to expand the cattle farm, the road has become a "stumbling block", because there is no road, materials can only rely on artificial back. It will cost at least 100000 yuan to get through this 4-kilometer section of Mao highway, and they have already spent nearly 300000 yuan on cattle farms. In the view of Liu Xiaolun and his wife, what they are willing to do, as long as they are determined to do it, they will succeed. In the next step, they will continue to expand the number of cattle and the infrastructure of cattle farms, and strive to develop cattle farms to a scale of more than 500 cattle in three to five cattle.

Yao Fujin

(original title: "post-80s" husband and wife return to their hometown to become "cattle herders")