Breeding "Little Xiang Pig" and Going out of the Way to Prosperity

Sunny in May, at the Yangyang Xiang Pig Farm in Yanyi Village, Songkan Town, Tongzi County, Guizhou Province, groups of young Xiang pigs found food leisurely on the slopes around the enclosure, while sleeping sows were kept in two rows of regular pens.

At about 12:00 at noon, Li Guanghong and his wife, dressed as "swineherds", poured some cooked feed into the trough of the pigsty. Smelling the noise, the little Xiang pigs around them immediately gathered around for food. "within a few months, these dozens of Xiang pigs will be able to get out of the pen." Looking at the fat little Xiang pig day by day, Li Guanghong and his wife looked relieved.

Once upon a time, "swineherd" Li Guanghong was a migrant wage earner. The couple worked abroad for more than 20 years, and twice they went back to their hometown to start a business. their savings for many years of working were exhausted, and the neighbors ridiculed Li Guanghong, saying that "if there is no diamond, you should not do porcelain work."

This year, Li Guanghong visited a friend's home in Qijiang, Chongqing, and inspected a fragrant pig farm in Qijiang under the guidance of a friend, and the couple came up with the idea of going back to their hometown to start a business. But at the thought of the previous two failures, the couple hesitated again. When the staff of Songkan Town Agricultural Machinery Service Center learned about Li Guanghong and his wife's ideas, they came to their door to cheer them up and gave them strong technical support, which strengthened Li Guanghong's confidence in raising fragrant pigs. "We decided to try again. When we see that other people's fragrant pigs sell so well, I also want to be a good swineherd." Li Guanghong is full of confidence.

During the Spring Festival in 2014, with the help of town and village cadres, Li Guanghong built a farm covering an area of about 8 mu from a bank loan, and went to Chongqing, Qijiang, Hechuan and other places to buy 25 breeding pigs and invested 200000 yuan to set up his own farm. Today, Li Guanghong's farm has 35 breeding pigs and more than 100 commercial Xiang pigs. Li Guanghong said that through self-breeding and self-raising, it is estimated that the scale of breeding pigs will reach 100 in the second half of the year, and the stock of commercial fragrant pigs will reach 800, with an output value of 900000 yuan. "Pigs are kept in captivity, but our fragrant pigs are kept free." Li Guanghong revealed the "secret" of pig breeding in one sentence.

"the meat of free-range Xiang pigs is more delicious and chewy than ordinary pork, and the price is higher." Li Guanghong calculated an account with the author: when a fragrant pig comes out of the pen, it weighs an average of 20 kilograms, according to the market price of 70 to 80 yuan per kilogram, and a fragrant pig can be sold for about 1500 yuan.

Seeing the good prospects for the development of Xiang pigs, the party committee and government of Songkan Town took advantage of the situation and adopted the model of "farm + peasant household + cooperative", that is, the cooperative provided two sows to each needy family free of charge, and after the sows gave birth, they were uniformly bought back by the cooperative and sold to Chongqing, Zunyi and other places. Based on the fact that each sow produces 2 litters and 10 piglets per litter each year, there are nearly 40 commercial Xiang pigs produced by 2 sows a year, with an output value of nearly 60,000 yuan.

"according to the current poverty alleviation standards, it only takes one year for families with difficulties to participate in fragrant pig farming to get out of poverty. In the future, we should actively strive for industrial poverty alleviation projects and funds from our superiors, tilt towards characteristic growers, and really work out a new road suitable for poverty alleviation by Songkan industries, so as to drive more villagers to increase their income and become rich, "said Wang Yi, secretary of the party committee of Songkan Town.

Industrial poverty alleviation is the most direct and effective carrier in the fight against poverty. At present, relying on the characteristics of large farmers and industrial cooperation, many migrant workers returning home with the support of the party committee and government of Songkan Town, participate in the planting and breeding industry, step by step on the well-off road.