Beef cattle farming brings rich and poor households

In recent years, Xingren County, Guizhou Province has encouraged and guided the establishment of specialized agricultural cooperatives in rural areas for common development, and a large number of large farmers and rich experts have emerged throughout the county, who use their technology and state support policies to walk in the forefront of the aquaculture industry. it has played a pioneering and exemplary role in driving neighborhood villagers to shake off poverty and become rich.

Luo Kaifu, chairman of Zhonghe Farmers' cattle raising Professional Cooperative in Yinchang Village, Baide Town, Xingren County, is a typical example. Having worked in the grain department for more than 20 years, he was born and raised in the countryside. In 2008, he returned to his hometown to develop farming. He successively raised sheep and pigs. When raising sheep, he grew from 200 to more than 600, and earned the "first bucket of gold" of his life. He is a veritable breeding expert in the eyes of the local people.

Yinchang Village, Baide Town, is a relatively remote village in Xingren County, which is a typical mountain area with rich resources. Local farmers mainly grow corn, rice and wheat, and have sufficient forage resources. Luo Kaifu took advantage of the local rich mountain resources and years of aquaculture technology to develop ecological aquaculture, and took advantage of the state's policy advantage of increasing investment in the agricultural industry to taste the "sweetness" of aquaculture.

In 2014, the Provincial people's Congress Group helped Baide Town, and the village planned to set up cooperatives to develop aquaculture to drive villagers out of poverty and become rich. Luo Kaifu took the initiative to stand up and took the lead in setting up a professional cooperative for cattle raising in Zhonghe Farmers' Village, Baide Town, Xingren County. He also invested more than 1.2 million yuan to build a farm to develop beef cattle breeding, and also used the group's fund to help farmers to buy shares to promote the development of farmers who can breed cows. He uses his farming technology for many years to provide free technical services to farmers. Farmers who buy shares not only enjoy the technical training and guidance provided by cooperatives, but also actively strive for subsidy funds for national projects through cooperatives. Led by him, more than 10 farmers, including villagers Zuo Keliang and Zhou Wenxiang, actively joined the cooperative in 2015, and many poor people are using the county's interest-free poverty alleviation funds to further expand the scale of farming.

Qin Meishu, a poor family, used two cattle to join the cooperative, but now she has raised four. This year, the cooperative is perfecting the procedures to apply for subsidies from the relevant departments.

When talking about future development, Luo Kaifu said confidently that in order to win more markets and drive more peasant families to get rich, he has now set up specialty stores in the city to sell. At the same time, set a good example, strengthen management, and lead farmers on the road to prosperity.

Nowadays, more and more villagers in and around Yinchang Village begin to invest in the aquaculture industry. at present, there are more than 60 farmers in the village and more than 20 farmers in the village with more than five stockholders, and cattle farming has become the main industry in the village to get rich.

Xiong Tingbo is extracted from the Southwest Guizhou Network of China.