Eating lees and drinking mountain spring water European beef cattle drive Yangxin farmers to get rich together.

The remaining veins of the towering Mufu Mountain meandered for hundreds of miles, landing on the Yangxin Fushui River on the border between Jiangxi and Hubei. Seen from afar, the mountain looks like a big tiger roaring with its head held high. Locals call this mountain Hutou Mountain.

On the 14th, after turning around the river bank and turning the ferry, we came to the foot of Hutou Mountain, where there is a cattle farm called American Union Farmers' Professional Cooperative in Yangxin Fenglin Town.

Under the bamboo forest, six neat cowhouses come into view, with sloping roofs, gray walls and bright gray walls.

When I walked into the barn, I saw that the cow was different from the local breed and looked like an European cow with a large size and white and brown coat. One question is that a kind of beef cattle called Simmental was imported from Europe from the northeast. The long trough was filled with yellow fodder, and more than a dozen fat cattle were burying their heads. "these cows mainly eat strong wine lees." He Yuxue, chairman of the cooperative and secretary of the village branch of Liu Chong, introduced him.

Can cows eat lees? This is the first time I've heard of it. "We didn't believe it at first." He Yuxue said that during the Spring Festival in 2011, villagers in the same village who worked in the northeast came back to say that some local cattle were raised with distiller's grains and the cattle were fat and fat, which was very popular in the market.

He Yuxue said that the strong brand company was built in our town, where there are many distillers' grains, why not use local materials and raise cattle to drive the villagers to get rich? After discussing with a group of people from the village committee, he Yuxue and 13 village cadres and villagers in the village jointly invested 4 million yuan to set up a cooperative and set up a cattle farm.

"the feed costs one yuan, three or four kilos, and the distiller's grains is only nine cents a jin." He Yuxue calculated that feeding a cow two or three jin of distiller's grains a day can replace one jin of concentrate, which can save more than a yuan.

Will raising cattle with distiller's grains affect the meat quality? We asked again and again.

"on the contrary, these cattle eat distiller's grains and drink mountain spring water, and the meat is very fresh and tender, selling more than 10 yuan per jin than ordinary beef, and the quality has been recognized by the quality supervision department." 'i get calls from dealers in Huangshi, Wuhan, Jiujiang, Nanchang and other places almost every day, asking for our beef cattle,'he said. Last year, the cooperative produced more than 200 head of cattle, with a gross income of 4 million yuan.

This year, after the accurate poverty alleviation work was launched in the whole province, as a village branch secretary, he Yuxue absorbed 25 local poor households to join. Mayor Kong Xiangpeng said that the town subsidizes each poor household to buy shares of 4800 yuan, and then pay dividends at the end of the year according to the benefits.

Several poor families who joined the society in advance embarked on the road to getting rid of poverty by raising cattle. Yu Shouyi, a member of the low-income household of Nanchong Group in Nancheng Village, said his wife was seriously ill and could not afford to stay in bed for eight years. She had an 80-year-old mother and two children were in school. Since 2013, he has started to work in a cooperative with a monthly income of 2200 yuan, which not only takes care of the family, but also solves the immediate worries.

Guo Bangmi, a 47-year-old bachelor, smiled from ear to ear during our interview. Because of his lack of skills, he had been working as a part-time job and could only earn a living. Now, I go to work in a cooperative. I have a lot of money, and I drink a little wine every day.

Raising cattle has also led the surrounding farmers to get rich. Farmers in Nancheng, Xiayang and Liuchong villages grow more than 10,000 mu of corn. Villager Liu Youzhi planted more than 200 mu of corn. according to the contract, he will harvest corn and straw directly to Wachovia farmers' professional cooperatives, with an income of more than 400,000 yuan this year.