Female College Students as "Pig Shepherd": Knowledge Opens the Way to Get Rich

"A young post-80s, city girl, graduated from Huazhong Agricultural University, and worked as a production director at Jinshui Pig Farm under the Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine of Hubei Academy of Agricultural Sciences." looking at such a life "label," who would have thought that she would go to the countryside to become a "swineherd"? She is Zhu Minming, founder of Minghui Animal Husbandry Farm in Xingan County.

In 2009, the pig market entered a trough, but Zhu Mingming saw the business opportunity, thinking that this is a good time to expand the scale of breeding to meet the next wave of market. By coincidence, she happened to see that Xingan County encouraged and supported newcomers with special skills and certain financial ability to go home and start their own businesses, contributing to the economic development and employment of their hometown. Encouraged, Zhu Mingming resolutely gave up his career in Wuhan for many years, and his family returned to Maixie Town to open up a pig breeding base at Shuinan Orchard in Xiaokeng Village of the town, and set up Minghui Animal Husbandry Farm on the basis of piglet breeding.

Zhu Mingming was originally an aggressive girl. As early as 2007, she took the initiative to give up her public "rice bowl", resigned and went to sea to run a veterinary drugstore in Hannan District of Wuhan City. She used her knowledge to solve problems for the broad masses of farmers and won the praise of the surrounding farmers. Then, giving full play to her expertise, she bought a pig farm that was facing closure due to heavy losses due to high fever, which soon brought it back to life. She has given up such a good foundation, and now she has re-opened the way with what she has learned and started her second venture in her life.

Every time you start a business, it is difficult. To go to the pig farm, you have to take a muddy road, which is muddy all the year round, and there is no room to get down on a rainy day. It takes a lot of effort for young and middle-aged men to transport things into pig farms on such a road, not to mention young Zhu Mingming.

But Zhu Mingming was never intimidated by difficulties. Give pigs anti-epidemic injections, move feed, drive tricycles to transport piglets, fat pigs. She has no problem with everything. At present, her farm keeps more than 200 sows, produces more than 1000 fattened pigs a year, supplies more than 3000 high-quality piglets, and plans to expand the stock of sows to 400 next year, with an annual supply of more than 6500 piglets.

Zhu Mingming's knowledge is not just for himself. As long as there are door-to-door or phone calls for help from farmers, she unreservedly provides them with technical support and services to help them achieve better economic benefits. When she learned that Mai Xie had a pig "female Zhuge", many farmers came to buy her piglets and asked her for advice. Over the past few years, Zhu Mingming has established a long-term cooperative relationship with more than 20 farmers, leading them on the road to prosperity.