You say raising pigs is profitable, so why don't you raise pigs yourself?

Since ancient times, our country has been a major pig-raising nation, with a history of raising pigs spanning several thousand years, and what has upheld the reputation of this major pig-raising nation is, of course, the hardworking farmers who make up the vast majority of the national population. Now that pig prices are soaring, the pig-raising industry has begun to attract great attention from the public, and the conclusion has been drawn: farmers make good money raising pigs! Farmers raising pigs are now developing in a positive direction, but do you know the hardship and exhaustion of farmers raising pigs?

When farmers raise pigs for five years, most of the time they lose money for two years, break even for two years, and profit for one year. This year farmers raising pigs have finally met good times, and this day should have come earlier. Farmers raising pigs is too bitter and too exhausting; they do such arduous work for over a decade, over two decades, or even a lifetime. Farmers, with their quality of being hardworking and willing to do bitter and tiring work, silently raise pigs, earn money honestly, and peacefully provide high-quality pork. We should give farmers a thumbs-up.

Farmers raising pigs have no advanced breeding equipment; everything requires manpower. Before dawn they must get up, mix feed for the pigs, then carry bucket after bucket to deliver food to each pigpen. After feeding, they still have to clean pig manure pen by pen, and sometimes they cannot even spare time to eat breakfast. You should know that feeding pigs is like this three times a day. If farmers raise a few more pigs, there is almost no rest time; they need to soak in the pigpens all day long. Only farmers themselves know the hardship and exhaustion of raising pigs, right?

Farmers raising pigs rarely use fattening products; they all use their own grain, ground into feed, to feed the pigs. Grinding feed is very time-consuming and labor-intensive. With the small grinder driven by their own tractor, farmers grind the feed bag by bag, and mix several kinds of feed according to a certain ratio. Where would there be a feed mixer? It is all mixed evenly by hand, shovel by shovel. Raising pigs to adulthood bit by bit like this is truly not easy. Although the pigs grow slowly, the pork raised this way is delicious, the kind that large-scale farms cannot compare with.

Farmers lack advanced breeding technology in pig raising, and the pig growth cycle is long. Farmers raising pigs really just ensure the pigs are full and have enough, which causes the feeding cost to be very high. In addition, because farmers raising pigs do not understand technology and do a poor job in feeding management, and have not established the concept of a complete immunization program, pigs are prone to disease. When pigs get sick, the mortality rate rises, which brings great economic losses to pig raising.

It is not easy for farmers to raise pigs. Recently, many pig farms have been shut down because of environmental problems, and the pig farms that have managed to survive must also bear huge environmental governance costs. Therefore, we must have a deep understanding of the current situation of farmers raising pigs, sympathize with the difficulty of farmers raising pigs, and even more so strive for more protection and subsidy mechanisms for farmer pig raisers.