Chongqing Fengdu Beef cattle Industry drives 70% of Rural households to become Rich

Planting forage, making feed, raising fat cattle, slaughtering beef cattle and deep processing. For the 70,000 farmers engaged in beef cattle related industries in Fengdu County, Chongqing, every link in this beef cattle industry chain is a good way for them to increase their income and become rich.

Looking for pillar industries

Beef cattle is the core pillar industry of Fengdu County. At the end of 2011, the stock of beef cattle in Fengdu County reached 243000 and the number of beef cattle reached 125000. Of the 186000 farmers in the county, nearly 50, 000 are engaged in beef cattle-related industries, and this figure will rise to 70, 000 by the end of 2012. As a result, Fengdu County has become the first county in the southwest beef cattle industry and a major county in the national beef cattle industry. Four years ago, the beef cattle industry in Fengdu was almost blank.

At that time, Fengdu County faced great difficulties, among which the industrial emptiness was particularly prominent, especially after the relocation of the three Gorges immigrants, how to steadily emigrate and help farmers shake off poverty and become rich is the biggest problem facing this state-level poverty-stricken county.

"Fengdu County is located on the edge of the Yangtze River, there is no shortage of water, and it is rich in forage grass and straw resources, and it is more common for retail investors to raise cattle, which is more suitable for the development of beef cattle industry." At the end of 2008, Fengdu County set the goal of "speeding up the development of beef cattle industry and building the hometown of beef cattle in China".

Introduction of leading enterprises beef cattle industry from scratch

As the leader of beef cattle industry in Fengdu County, Chongqing Hengdu Agricultural Development Co., Ltd. has almost completely witnessed the development of Fengdu beef cattle industry from scratch, from existence to strength.

In February 2009, Beijing Zhongheng Xingye Science and Technology Group and its subsidiaries invested 180 million yuan to set up a national agricultural industrialization leading enterprise integrating beef cattle breeding, fattening, forage planting, feed production, beef cattle comprehensive trading, slaughtering, intensive processing and marketing in Fengdu County, preparing to build "the hometown of beef cattle in southern China", with an annual output of 90,000 high-quality high-grade beef cattle.

Zhu Gangquan, deputy general manager of Hengdu Company, told me: "after the industrial company settled, it directly led to more than 700 immigrants in the reservoir area and the employment of surrounding farmers." Farmers can find something to do in growing forage grass, feed production, fattening cattle and other links. For example, if farmers grow forage, they can "rent" the land to an industrial company, so that they can not only collect rent, but also return to the land to "work"; the surplus labor force of the family can still work in the nearest feed factory; if the company cannot feed beef cattle, farmers can still claim it and sell it to the company by order, and the price will be uniformly negotiated by the cooperative, and the company will be responsible for "delivery" at that time. With this complete beef cattle income-increasing industrial chain, more and more farmers return to their hometown to work in Fengdu County.

In 2010, when Qin Zongquan, a farmer from Fengdu, heard that his hometown was developing the planting and breeding industry, he ended his working career and signed an agreement with Hengdu Agricultural Company to take an order for 100 mu of forage grass in one breath. In that year, Qin Zongquan's net income reached 115000 yuan.

"Spring Credit and Autumn return" helps beef cattle industry take root.

"I can increase my income by more than 16000 yuan by adopting eight beef cattle a year." For Cheng Peiguo, a farmer from the second Society of Wanglong Village, Jilong Town, Fengdu County, raising beef cattle can increase income almost without input.

The reason why it is said that Cheng Peiguo's beef cattle farming is to increase income without investment, it has to be said from the beginning of the development of beef cattle industry in Fengdu County in 2008.

Fengdu County has a tradition of raising yellow cattle, but the relevant departments of the Fengdu County government at that time took a lot of thought on how to make farmers change the traditional breeding methods.

"We have implemented the beef cattle care model of 'spring credit, autumn and winter debt, thin and fat on credit, small and big credit' and the cow adoption model of 'enterprises purchase cattle, farmers adopt, recycle calves and cows return home'." Wu Dongping, secretary of the party group of the Animal Husbandry Bureau of Fengdu County, said that the "zero income" model of "returning credit in spring and autumn" allows farmers who lack start-up funds to quickly join the huge industry chain of beef cattle. At present, about 90, 000 people in Fengdu County are engaged in manual recommendation and recycling of straw, rice straw and other agricultural and sideline products for the beef cattle industry, and 150000 people produce organic fertilizers, fruits and vegetables, and engage in catering, logistics and other services for the beef cattle industry. in the future, more and more people will join the beef cattle industry, and Fengdu's beef cattle industry has been deeply rooted in this land.

70% of farmers get rich by beef cattle industry.

In 2011, the annual trading volume reached 200000 beef cattle, and the largest beef cattle trading center in China has been built and put into use in Fengdu County. Here, in addition to the traditional physical transactions, foreign businessmen are more interested in the electronic platform network trading model, through the Internet and developed logistics, to buy cattle in different places is just a matter of moving a mouse.

Modern trading means is only a catalyst to promote the development of Fengdu beef cattle industry. The ultimate goal of Fengdu County is to let 70,000 farmers in the county get rich by lengthening the beef cattle industry chain.