The Yellow cattle in Southern Anhui are kept in free range in the depths of the mountain

Yang Aiwu's cattle farm in southern Anhui is located on the hillside of Wushi Town, Huangshan District, the upper reaches of Taiping Lake, with a beautiful environment. The cattle in southern Anhui are highly sought after by urban consumers because they are scattered in the depths of the mountains.

Go back to your hometown to set up a breeding farm

On June 23, the reporter came to the southern Anhui cattle farm in Wushi Town, Huangshan District, Huangshan City, where there are mountains, grasslands at the foot of the mountains and Taiping Lake. After walking in the mountains for about ten minutes, the reporter saw a large group of yellow cattle enjoying the cool in the shade of the grass edge. Compared with the northern Anhui yellow cattle, the southern Anhui yellow cattle are much smaller. "what I raise here is a local native Wannan yellow cattle. This kind of cattle has a small physique. After coming out of the pen, each yellow cattle produces only 200 kilograms of meat, but the taste is quite good. Yang Aiwu, 48, is the owner of the farm. Yang Aiwu told reporters that he went out of his home to Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province in 1991 to work for an advertising company. In 1997, the company sent him to work in Yichang, Hubei Province, as the branch manager. After several years of training, he accumulated a wealth of industry knowledge and contacts. In 1999, he resigned and registered himself to set up an advertising company, and the company developed steadily in the following years.

In 2005, he decided to go back to his hometown to enter agriculture. In September of that year, hundreds of mu of barren mountains were transferred and began to build roads, water, electricity and pig farms.

The ecological environment is good.

His pig career is developing rapidly, but the risks are also great. Once, more than 300 Miao pigs he bought died of illness, losing hundreds of thousands of yuan; and the price of pork fluctuated greatly, and the market was even more difficult to grasp, so he decided to change careers for the second time.

In 2012, an animal husbandry expert in the province said to him: "Yellow cattle in southern Anhui is the top grade of beef. At present, the quantity is getting smaller and smaller, and the breeding prospect is promising." "with these words, he decided to start raising yellow cattle in southern Anhui. He invested more than 400,000 yuan that year and bought 38 yellow cattle, and since then he has expanded the scale of breeding year by year.

Yang Aiwu registered and established Dashanli Ecological Agriculture Development Co., Ltd., investing millions of yuan to build 2000 square meters of cowshed, 200square meters of feed processing workshop, 150m3 dry dung storage cellar, veterinary room, disinfection room and warehouse. In 2015, two medium-sized biogas digesters were built for waste recycling. The relatively complete infrastructure has laid a good foundation for the development of the cattle industry. At the same time, Yang Aiwu and Annong University and other units have established scientific research cooperation and registered the trademark of "Shanli Niu" products.

Yang Aiwu said that he raised yellow cattle in southern Anhui, not in captivity, but completely scattered in the mountains. "if you raise yellow cattle in captivity, although the growth rate is fast, the meat quality of yellow cattle is poor and there are many diseases. "there are so many grassy beaches and grassy slopes in Wushi town that they were wasted in the past, and this is a good place to raise cattle. "at present, there are 5500 mu of available pastures and more than 500 yellow cattle in southern Anhui. "with regard to the disposal of cow dung that many cattle farmers have a headache, Yang Aiwu told reporters that cow dung is a treasure here. He has planted hundreds of mu of seedlings and more than 100 mu of forage grass, and 200 mu of Huizhou rhubarb chrysanthemum. Cow dung happens to be a high-quality organic fertilizer. "because of the rich grassland resources, the cost of raising cattle here is not high. If a cow comes out of the pen in three years, the cost is about 4000 yuan, and the profit of a cow can reach 6000 yuan. "

Build direct sales stores in big cities

Yang Aiwu said that his young cattle in southern Anhui drank mountain spring water and ate pollution-free grass. The beef was of very good quality and was well received by consumers in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai. "I have invested 1 million yuan to build two beef direct sales stores in Hangzhou and Nanjing. Although the price is as high as 80 yuan per jin, the supply still falls short of demand. "he has also repeatedly organized consumers from Hangzhou, Nanjing, Shanghai and other places to come to the farm in Wushi Town to experience the good environment here. In 2015 alone, he sold 30,000 jin of beef.

Talking about this year's new plan, Yang Aiwu plans to use his cattle farm as a demonstration to drive surrounding farmers to join the ranks of raising yellow cattle in southern Anhui, and then expand the total number of cattle breeding to more than 10000 by the way of "companies and farmers." and finally form an industrial chain based on beef processing, and the products are aimed at the middle and high-end market to start their own green agricultural brand.