Pig farmer Liang Shiping's path to increasing income and prosperity: from small-scale raiser to farm owner
**Liang Shiping, an entrepreneur from the No. 4 Company of the No. 6 Regiment of the First Division of the Production and Construction Corps, is a well-known large-scale pig farmer in the No. 6 Regiment of the First Division. Last year his net income from pig farming was around 100,000 yuan. After 6 years of breeding, Liang Shiping will expand his breeding area and number of livestock again this year. He now has a pig farm integrating breeding and raising, covering an area of 10,000 sq m, of which the pig sheds cover 3,000 sq m. This spring, Liang Shiping also bought a car for his daughter. These good days one after another make Liang Shiping extremely happy.
Liang Shiping is 49 years old this year. He is cheerful, intelligent and hardworking. In 2013, after learning that the regiment had issued a lot of news to help breeding households diversify their income, he brought his wife and daughter to the newly built pig farm of the No. 4 Company of the No. 6 Regiment and began to expand his breeding operation. The regiment not only issued many good policies to help breeding households diversify their income, but also provided technical help and guidance. In 2013, Liang Shiping and his wife purchased more than 1,000 excellent breeding pigs such as "Duroc, Yorkshire, Landrace" and other superior breeding sows from the Tiankang breeding pig farms in **Ruoqiang and Urumqi, China. In order to raise the pigs as well as possible, Liang Shiping often learned breeding techniques and health and epidemic prevention knowledge from technicians at the local veterinary station, kept abreast of market conditions in a timely manner, and also borrowed related books from the veterinary station to study. Through diligent study, Liang Shiping not only mastered the scientific techniques of pig farming, but also learned disease treatment and sow delivery.
Through scientific management and careful breeding, Liang Shiping goes to the pig sheds every day. In addition to feeding the pigs, he also carefully observes the pigs' eating conditions and manure conditions. If he finds that a pig is not eating or its manure is abnormal, he treats it promptly. In order to improve the survival rate of piglets bred by sows, when the sows give birth to piglets, Liang Shiping lives in the pigpen to watch over and care for the sows, and only after the sows have finished giving birth to the piglets is he willing to take a nap and rest for a while.
The pig farm is large in scale, and market risks are also great. Because the prices of feed and pork are unstable, in order to resist market risks, Liang Shiping raises funds to buy and stockpile more feed when corn prices are low in autumn, reducing feeding costs; when pork prices rise, he sends more fattened pigs to market. By buying more when prices are low and selling more when prices are high, Liang Shiping's family earns 100 to 200 yuan more per pig than other breeding households.
Liang Shiping is good at business and grasping the market. Through years of effort, he has grown from a small-scale pig raiser into a farm owner. Not only has he become prosperous himself, he has also led other workers to develop the breeding industry, becoming a youth leader in becoming prosperous through breeding in the regiment.