The "post-90s" youth are happy to be "pig dads"

In China, agriculture is considered to be one of the hard industries, among which aquaculture is even more bitter. However, with the needs of the transformation and upgrading of the breeding model, more and more young people join in it, and many "post-90s" who have just graduated have achieved the supervisor level in the farm.

Peng Wenjing, 22, graduated from agricultural school in 2014 and entered Tianxin Pig Farm in Guiyang County, Hunan Province. a year later, he was promoted to head of the pig farm fattening house, with four breeders twice his age. Peng Wenjing gets up at 6 o'clock every morning, not only inspecting the temperature and humidity in the fattening house, but also training thousands of piglets to eat, sleep and defecate.

Zhou Yangping, 25, jokingly calls himself a "father pig". As the head of the delivery room of a pig farm, he looks after more than 1800 lactating piglets every month. Some are too big to eat, while others are too small to grab milk. Zhou Yangping walks among the pigs every day, ready to adjust the fence to ensure their balanced growth.

"there are more than 40 employees in the pig farm, and more than 1/3 of them are post-90s." Gong Ziye, general manager of Tianxin original pig farm, told reporters that they all had professional courses in animal husbandry and veterinary medicine. Executives like Peng Wenjing and Zhou Yangping can not only earn more than 60,000 yuan a year, but also have a lot of room for promotion.

It is not easy to deal with pigs all day long, but the biggest challenge for this group of post-90s is that they have to work in a completely closed environment. In order to prevent the epidemic, the farms are built far away from the city, eat and live on the farm, and have only two days off a month.

Unbearable pollution and fluctuating prices make it inevitable for the aquaculture industry to transform and upgrade from individual farmers to large-scale farmers. Hunan, which produces more than 70 million pigs a year, has successively designated the main stream of the Xiangjiang River and the inner lake of Dongting Lake as prohibited areas from 2013 to now, and closed a large number of small and medium-sized farms with backward conditions. At the same time, agricultural groups represented by Wen and Xin Wufeng began to build a large number of modern farms.

"unlike retail farming, which relies on experience, large-scale farming pays more attention to technology and standardization for the purpose of environmental protection and epidemic prevention. In this respect, young people have more advantages in understanding and execution. " Peng Yinglin, secretary general of Hunan Pig raising Association, said, "the structure of employees in the breeding industry in the past two years can be summarized as follows: the post-90s generation as the supervisor, the post-80s generation as the manager, and the post-70s generation as the boss."

College students of related majors, especially college graduates, have become "hot cake". The manager of a large aquaculture enterprise in Hunan told reporters that in March this year, they signed an intention contract with dozens of animal epidemic prevention students from a higher vocational college, although the monthly salary reached 4000 yuan, but in the end, less than 10 people came to report, and the rest were taken away by enterprises outside the province.

Chu Qiongxiang, chairman of Hunan Modern Agricultural Vocational Education Group, said that in recent years, the number of graduates majoring in animal husbandry and veterinary medicine has been less than 50 percent of the demand, and many students have been "booked" by enterprises before they graduate. Huang Hang, a veterinary major from Anjiang Agricultural School in Huaihua, said: "each student is chosen by several units, and the choice is entirely in our hands."