Young man gets rich through scientific pig farming

In rural areas, pig farming has always been regarded as an industry with low technical content, poor working conditions and high risk. But young Zhao Jingzhong believes that with social and economic progress, traditional breeding methods will be phased out, and pig farming will also move onto a scientific and large-scale path. Through more than 5 years of pig farming practice, Zhao Jingzhong has worked out a set of scientific pig farming methods and practical techniques, changing people's traditional views of the pig farming industry.

Zhao Jingzhong is 34 years old this year. Since graduating from high school, he has worked in transport and run a factory. When he saw that large-scale pig farming had become a development path for increasing agricultural efficiency and farmers' incomes, he made up his mind to return to the countryside to start a pig farming business. He firmly believes that with his own intelligence and hardworking hands, he can surely carve out a road to prosperity of his own. As the saying goes: everything is difficult at the beginning. As an ordinary farmer lacking funds, experience and technology in pig farming, although full of confidence, the difficulties he encountered when actually doing it can be imagined. At the start of his business, in order to raise funds, Zhao Jingzhong wore out his shoes and talked until his lips were worn, and finally borrowed more than 100,000 yuan from relatives and friends. Unfortunately, because he did not understand breeding technology in the early days, more than 100,000 yuan was all lost due to vaccination problems with the piglets.

Zhao Jingzhong, who failed in his first attempt at starting a business, was not discouraged. He began to carefully observe the growth patterns of pigs. Relying on experience accumulated in practice and a determination to dig deep, he overcame one difficulty after another, managed to fill the empty pig pens again, and earned his first pot of gold on the road to entrepreneurship. Zhao Jingzhong, who is good at thinking and learning, always clearly understood that to build a big business, one must achieve scale. Not long afterward, with the help of the town youth league committee and the district animal husbandry bureau, Zhao Jingzhong obtained 800,000 yuan for a standardized pig farming community renovation project and 2 million yuan in construction funds for a modern animal husbandry demonstration park.

For more than 5 years, Zhao Jingzhong often stayed in the pig farm and "ate and slept with the pigs." Several thick pig farming diaries are precisely the "research results" of his painstaking study of pig farming techniques. "Hard work pays off." Through years of observation and analysis of pigs' growth habits, Zhao Jingzhong gained a deeper understanding of pig breed improvement. He successively introduced Landrace and Large White pigs newly imported from Denmark by the Ninghe Original Breeding Pig Farm to produce two-way crossbred gilts for surrounding farmers to renew their breeds. Not only that, Zhao Jingzhong also paid special attention to collecting the latest pig farming technology and equipment, and raising pigs scientifically. As the farming scale expanded and labor costs increased, Zhao Jingzhong spent a huge sum to introduce an automatic feeding system and an automatic environmental control system for the pig farm, greatly reducing manual labor intensity, improving production efficiency, and achieving good economic benefits.

After achieving success, Zhao Jingzhong did not forget the villagers. He raised funds through various channels and established the "Xianyi Pig Breeding Professional Cooperative," actively helping members apply for government interest-subsidized loans, build pig houses and pass on technology, driving the development of the whole village's pig farming industry and winning everyone's respect. Today, Zhao Jingzhong's "Xianyi Pig Breeding Professional Cooperative" has a total construction area of 7,500 sq m and a total investment of 15 million yuan. It has 1 self-breeding and self-raising commercial pig farm with 500 basic sows, with more than 10,000 commercial pigs marketed annually, making it one of the largest large-scale farms in Beichen District.