The villagers raised porcupine and embarked on the road to prosperity.

Seeing strangers approaching, the porcupines stood up black and white thorns and made a "poof" sound from their mouth. "despite its meekness and loveliness, it is so angry that even we dare not approach it." Yang family paid while feeding corn kernels to porcupine, telling reporters.

Yang Jiafu and his wife are young people from Fuhua Village, Xinmin Town, Da'an District, Zigong City. the couple used to work and now run a small plastic processing factory in their hometown. But the shrewd Yang Jiafu is not satisfied with the status quo. In March last year, by chance, the couple saw on TV that raising porcupines could also get rich. "if other people can earn 2 million yuan a year, why can we only earn tens of thousands of yuan?" Yang Jiafu had a bold idea in his mind-raising porcupine. In April, the couple rented a van and made a special trip to the porcupine breeding base in Qianjiang District of Chongqing to investigate and study. Seeing groups of porcupines moving back and forth in sharp black and white thorns and buyers from all over the country driving high-end cars to place orders, Yang Jiafu strengthened his idea of raising porcupines. Immediately spent 36000 yuan to buy 12 porcupine.

There are two to four porcupines in each of the pig pens in which the Yang family pays. "through careful breeding, the 12 breeding pigs I bought from Chongqing have now grown to 42. I get several phone calls for orders and inquiries every day. However, it is not intended to sell commercial porcupine, but to stock a large number of breeding pigs. It is estimated that in 3 years, the number of porcupine breeding pigs in our farm can reach about 300, and more than 700 commercial pigs can be produced every year. All I have to do is find a hotel or restaurant in Guangzhou and supply one porcupine a day, 360 a year. My income is very considerable! " Yang Jiafu confidently calculated an account for the reporter.

According to the person in charge of Da'an District Animal Husbandry Bureau, porcupine is a kind of precious herbivorous land animal with meat, medicine and ornamental value. because of its delicate meat and delicious taste, porcupine is known as "animal ginseng". High-end consumer groups are very fond of porky pork and have become a rare precious food for high-end hotels and hotels in economically developed provinces and cities such as Guangdong and Zhejiang. It has low feeding cost, takes plant roots and stems as food, and likes to eat corn, potatoes, peanuts, melons, fruits and vegetables, etc., a porcupine only needs to consume 4 to 5 cents a day of grain; and strong disease resistance, in the process of feeding, as long as the proportion of green feed is controlled, regular deworming and clean drinking water, almost no disease occurs. Each porcupine can grow to 15 to 20 kilograms. Porcupine thorns, stomach, liver and gallbladder are all treasures. Among them, thorns can be used medicinally or processed into handicrafts, each of which can be sold for 0.8 to 1.2 yuan. After the stomach is refined, it can be made into a good medicine for the treatment of stomach diseases. On the market, the price of porcupine stomach is 100 yuan per piece; at present, the market price of commodity porcupine in Guangzhou is about 160 yuan per kilogram, and it is conservatively estimated that the price of a porcupine is about 2500 yuan. Yang Jiafu also said that in the next step, he plans to introduce another batch of porcupine breeding pigs and adopt foster care or substitute breeding in farmers to drive more farmers to participate in porcupine breeding, so as to form a breeding scale and drive more farmers to embark on the road of getting rich together.