Fengdu County, Chongqing: college students start a business and taste the benefits of starting a business as a swineherd

"Last year, I sold more than 150 fat pigs, plus some piglets, and made a total of more than 300,000 yuan." Recently, Yang Jianghu said with a smile.

Yang Jianghu is a post-90s college student from Lengdixi Village, Longhe Town, Fengdu County. After graduating from Southwest Agricultural University in 2014, in order to realize his entrepreneurial dream, he gave up the opportunity to work and live in the city and resolutely chose to return to his hometown. Combine theory with practice and start your own business.

Recently, when the reporter came to the pig farm in Lengdixi Village, Longhe Town, Yang Jianghu, 23, was wearing a pair of frame glasses, a white striped T-shirt and casual jeans.

"talk about it." In the pig farm, Yang Jianghu called softly, and a group of lively piglets poured out. He spilled a basket of sweet potatoes on the ground, and the piglets swarmed up and scrambled for food. Looking at his "baby" looking for food and playing, Yang Jianghu's face showed a happy smile and opened the chatterbox like a few treasures.

Talking about his own experience and the original intention of starting a business, Yang Jianghu said that after graduating from the animal husbandry and veterinary major of Southwest Agricultural University in 2014, he, like other students, wanted to take an examination of civil servants and institutions, hoping to gain a firm foothold in the city. On the day of signing up, he stood in line with his friends for several hours, and it was not easy for him to register at the registration office. only when the test results came out did he find that he didn't get enough points. When it comes to the experience of the applicants, Yang Jianghu, who has just left school, is greatly touched. Thousands of people apply for a few posts, which is even more difficult than the university entrance examination.

"I majored in animal husbandry and veterinary medicine, but it is not easy to find a job now, and it is a better choice to return to my hometown to start a business." Yang Jianghu said that because of the unpopularity of his major, it is more difficult to find a good job, coupled with his own entrepreneurial dream since childhood, and the idea of going back to his hometown to raise pigs to become rich came into being. "although I am a graduate majoring in animal husbandry and veterinary medicine, there is far more theory than practice." Yang Jianghu shook his head and said that during his college years, in order to accumulate more practical experience, he spent more than a year as an intern in large pig farms in Hechuan, Yongchuan, Jiangjin, and other places, effectively combining theory with practice, and constantly learning and summing up many pig raising methods.

After graduation, Yang Jianghu, after several deliberation, told his parents his idea and got their support. Yang Jianghu told reporters that his parents have been doing waste recycling business in Nanping, Chongqing for ten years, and they miss their hometown very much and want to return to their hometown to live. Soon after, his father, Yang Genming, set aside 300000 yuan of savings as his son's start-up capital. At present, father and son are taking care of the pig farm together.

"install water pipes, beat pig troughs, and repair sinks. My father and I did all this by ourselves. " Yang Jianghu pointed to the pool to one side and said that after returning to his hometown, he simply transformed a dilapidated house in his hometown into a pigsty, bought 10 sows, a breeder pig and a Changan car, and then circled 30 mu of wasteland and planted pasture, and built a pig farm in the wind and fire.

"at present, there are more than 100 live pigs in the pig farm, including 15 sows, one breeder pig and the rest are piglets." Yang Jianghu said that the piglets were very naughty and strong, and the iron railings on the pigsty were crooked. The most troublesome thing is to wear "earrings" to the piglets, but thanks to the help of their father, the pig farm has been going well.

In addition, the mustard and red vetch vine fed to live pigs are all original food, and the feed without additives is configured, so the quality of live pigs is very good. Yang Jianghu said that the main focus of his pigs is "original ecology". In order to increase the amount of exercise for the pigs, he also set up a small playground in the pig house and ran every day. Now the pigs stored in the pig farm have been booked out by friends and merchants.

"it is expected that 300 to 400 fat pigs will be fenced this year, making a profit of more than 600,000 yuan." Yang Jianghu smiled from ear to ear when calculating this year's economic account.

"I use pig crossbreeding to improve yield and quality, and the current record is 24 piglets per birth." Yang Jianghu said when talking about innovative breeding methods for pigs.

Yang Jianghu said that he first took Taihu first generation pigs to mate with Landrace pigs to produce black and white piglets, and then left white pigs to mate with Duroc breeds, which will produce black, white and brown pigs. "this method is not only of high yield but also of good meat quality, especially white live pigs are very easy to sell in the market and are welcomed by pig traders." He told the reporter with a smile.