Layman Pig Farming: The Story of Meng Xiaozhou from Malong County
In the Xiaotianshengba Villager Group of Nazhang Town, Malong County, whenever the name of pig-farming expert Meng Xiaozhou comes up, the villagers all praise him warmly, because within a short time he went from a pig-farming "layman" to an expert, and his pig-farming operation kept expanding. At the same time, he was also the first large-scale household in the village to engage in pig breeding, and a "local expert" who led the villagers in scientific pig farming.
"It was the good policies of the 'Three Hundred' Project that helped me find a way to increase my income and get rich!" Speaking of his pig-farming experience, Meng Xiaozhou said from the bottom of his heart that in order to help him develop his pig-farming business, the town government and the animal husbandry station sent professional technicians specifically to help him with pigpen construction, improved breed selection, disease prevention and control, and market analysis and forecasting, and also coordinated a bank loan of 260,000 yuan to build a standardized large-scale pig breeding demonstration farm. Last year, the pig farm built pigpens of 380 sq m, one artificial insemination room and one veterinary room, a new septic tank, and introduced "Yorkshire" boars and sows for breeding and raising, selling market hogs at the right time to generate income. Half a year after the pig farm was completed, the first batch of market hogs brought Meng Xiaozhou a profit of more than 30,000 yuan.
Having tasted the "sweetness" of pig farming for the first time, Meng Xiaozhou became even more confident about developing his pig-farming business. While gradually expanding the scale of his operation, he made great efforts in upgrading the pig farm facilities, introducing improved breeds, feed processing, and disease prevention and control. In the process of raising pigs, he constantly studied and learned advanced feeding techniques, used scientific methods to mix feed, and carried out scientific management. The pigs he raised not only had a high survival rate, strong disease resistance, and fast growth, but each pig could also sell for more than a hundred yuan more than others'. At present, this pig farm has become the only standardized farm in Nazhang Town, with 150 fattening pigs on hand, 12 sows able to farrow, and 3 breeding boars. It has already sold two batches of market hogs, achieving an output value of 100,000 yuan.
With passion and drive, Meng Xiaozhou now manages the pig farm in perfect order and has become a well-known pig-farming expert in Nazhang Town. He is also a warm-hearted person. No matter whether pig farmers from his own village or surrounding villager groups come to ask him about pig-farming techniques, he shares everything without reservation and also provides free technical guidance to farmers, leading 12 neighboring villager households onto the path of scientific pig farming.