Shuicheng County, Guizhou Province: there is a "way" to raise pigs, make wine and make money.

Zhang Min is brewing wine.

Every morning at six o 'clock, Zhang Min, a villager from Group 5 of Yangmei Village, Yangmei Township, Shuicheng County, will get up on time, ignite, put on the jar, scoop water... ready to start brewing. After material selection, cooking, saccharification, fermentation, sterilization, distillation and other processes, the mellow Baogu wine slowly flows out from the jar.

This farmhouse home-grown method of brewing corn wine is the local rich corn (corn) as the main raw material, the selection of sweet mountain spring water brewing wine, brewing out of high alcohol, drink into the mouth, swallow into the stomach, there is a kind of burning feeling, is an essential courtesy way for farmers to entertain guests.

On May 13, the reporter saw in Zhang Min's brewing workshop that her brewing workshop did not have any mechanical equipment, and all brewing procedures were manual operation. When she first met Zhang Min, she was a little shy and not good at talking. But when it comes to winemaking, she is proud: "My parents 'home is also winemaking, and I learned to make wine when I was in my teens."

Zhang Min told reporters, According to the characteristics of wine-making technology, Generally is a day steamed grain, A day out of wine, All the work is completed by her couple, Local method wine-making is a physical work, Also very hard, Especially in summer, Just steamed out of the grain steaming hot, Temperature is extremely high, The whole workshop is very stuffy.

In 2006, she raised 20,000 yuan and bought 30 piglets to start breeding. Every day, piglet feed consumed a large amount of grain, potato and other grain at home, which made the poor families somewhat stretched. She thought that she had the technology of brewing wine, so why not use the distiller's grains produced by brewing wine to solve the feed problem and have another income. That year, she built a simple brewing workshop, which lasted 10 years.

"My wine has never been adulterated. It tastes good. It's always bought by acquaintances, so I don't have to worry about sales." Zhang Min said while brewing wine,"Every year needs 2400 catties of grain, Can brew 1000 catties of wine, Average price per catty in 4 yuan or so."

Next to the brewery is a "seven-shaped" simple pigsty made of cement bricks, where 20 sows sleep quietly. "Twenty sows have laid 130 piglets this year and sold more than 70. Now there are more than 50 piglets in the pen." Zhang Min said,"Last year the big pig market is good, raise big pigs, this year the piglet market is good to raise piglets, see the market pig."

Lei Minglin, deputy head of Yangmei Township, who accompanied reporters to interview, said Zhang Min was a "capable woman" who not only made wine, but also gave pigs injections.

Zhang Min said shyly, In the past in the countryside, Whenever pigs get sick, Veterinarian is not easy to find, Wait to find veterinarian to treat pigs, The disease is dragged up seriously, He has to spend a large amount of medical expenses, In order to reduce expenses, To the bookstore bought some pig epidemic prevention books, Self-taught to pigs to see a doctor.

"In the past few years, Zhang Min has never asked anyone to treat pigs. He always treats pigs by himself." Lei Minglin said. All the time, relevant responsible persons in the village and village have been very concerned about Zhang Min's entrepreneurship and mobilized her to expand the breeding scale for many times. In 2014, the village also helped her apply for two-year government discount loan to support her to expand the breeding scale.

Raising pigs and brewing wine made Zhang Min's family embark on the road to becoming rich. Last year, her family earned more than 100,000 yuan from selling big pigs and more than 100,000 yuan from brewing. This year in brewing and pig farming, Zhang Min's family is another bumper harvest year.