Introduce improved breeds of cattle to achieve the dream of raising cattle to become rich

Recently, the reporter walked into Hujin Village, Jiangchi Town, and saw more than a dozen cattle dressed in yellow and white "flower clothes" grazing leisurely in the cove. After inquiring, the reporter found their owner Xiang Yunfeng.

Returning to their hometown to raise cattle and sheep has become a poor household.

There are parents-in-law in their 80s and 12-year-old children at the bottom. In 2013, Xiang Yunfeng, who had been working in Chongqing for many years, gradually realized the importance of accompanying his family and resolutely returned to the quiet mountain village from the bustling city, determined to create wealth in this mountain area.

In those two years, the price of mutton continued to rise and the market prospect was good. He bought more than 10 sheep cubs and 2 local cattle from Yunfeng and wanted to make a fuss on breeding.

A year later, the sheep grew up, but because the price of mutton was popular before, there were more farmers raising sheep. At a time, the supply exceeded the demand, and the price of mutton fell sharply. Watching the sheep depreciate day by day, he was very helpless to Yunfeng: "at that time, I didn't know what supply and demand was. Anyway, I fed it when the market was good. As a result, everyone thought so, resulting in an imbalance between supply and demand."

For this matter, Xiang Yunfeng disagreed with his wife, who advocated selling the sheep, while Xiang Yunfeng insisted on keeping the sheep and expanding the scale by breeding.

"the price of mutton has gone down. Is the cow selling well? Otherwise, how could there be more than a dozen cows in the cove? " The reporter asked. Unexpectedly, he shook his head at Yunfeng, saying that the cow could not be sold at all. I didn't know the reason at that time, but no one bought it anyway.

In this way, Xiang Yunfeng was unable to sell his cattle and sheep, and he became a poor household in the village.

Ten direct learning techniques to introduce improved breeds of cattle

"I'm very distressed. I don't know how to go on in the future." He confessed to Yunfeng that after two years, he could not see the direction of the future and often asked himself whether he had made the right decision to return to his hometown for farming until the village established a farming cooperative.

Last year, the poverty alleviation work in our county was carried out one after another, and the poor households in Hujin Village, Jiangchi Town ushered in the hope of getting rid of poverty. Gu Qingbin, United front committee member of Jiangchi Town, proposed the establishment of two cooperatives for breeding and planting in Hujin Village to drive the villagers out of poverty.

After the establishment of the cooperative, it immediately carried out assistance to the poor families in the village. At the end of last year, Xiang Yunfeng and eight other farmers, led by the cooperative, came to a cattle farm in Shizhi Town to learn skills, where they got to know Simmental cattle from Yunfeng.

Xiang Yunfeng believes that in the past, raising cattle was not successful because of poor skills, and second, because the breed of cattle was not good. If you want to get rich, you have to raise improved breeds of cattle. He immediately asked the cooperative to introduce seven kinds of cattle, including Simmental, from Northeast China, Shandong and other places for him, and spent the stress reaction period in the cattle farm in Shizhi Town. Twenty days later, Xiang Yunfeng and other farmers happily led the cattle back to Hujin Village.

Expand the scale and raise more than 100,000 yuan a year.

After returning home, Xiang Yunfeng scattered the cattle in the cove with an area of about 800 mu. It took more than half an hour to walk from home and only went to see them every month or two, which was very convenient. According to Yunfeng, the local cattle originally raised can only grow to 300 to 400 kilograms at most, while these improved cattle can generally grow to 500 to 600 kilograms in about 10 months, and the net profit of each cow will increase by 50%.

As a result, Yunfeng couldn't wait to apply to the cooperative for the introduction of a few more thoroughbred cattle. After many times of introduction, Xiang Yunfeng has fed nearly 20 well-bred cattle, all of which can be fenced this year. The repayment of the loan from the cooperative when buying cattle has an income of nearly 100000 yuan this year.

While Xiang Yunfeng planned to expand his scale, the shortage of funds became his hard wound, and the cooperative once again came forward and provided it with a 100000 yuan help fund in two stages. Gu Qingbin said that the town will use the help funds to support local villagers to start a business, lend them interest-free, and return them after the villagers get rich. At present, this model has achieved good results.

In addition, Xiang Yunfeng also planted several mu of traditional Chinese medicine driven by the planting cooperative, which was sold directly to Taiji Group. Traditional Chinese medicine straw can also become a staple food for cattle when there is a shortage of forage in winter. in this way, farming and planting are organically combined. It is understood that nearly 500 mu of Chinese herbal medicines have been planted in the village, and its straw can be used for 100 cattle.

"A dozen sheep raised a few years ago have now grown to more than 60, and it is estimated that they will be able to reproduce to 100 by the end of the year." Xiang Yunfeng was glad that he did not give up breeding because of the bad market, while calculating the benefits brought by cattle and sheep out of the fence, he could not help but be overjoyed.