In the middle of winter, Daiwan Village, Shawan District, Leshan City, is full of vitality. In the spacious and bright standardized beef cattle breeding shed, a fat and strong Simmental beef cattle are leisurely munching on grass feed, and the sound of "moo" cows supports the joy in the hearts of farmers.
I can now slaughter a cow and make a net profit of more than 3,000 yuan after removing the feeding cost!Gong Fugao, a farmer who is busy adding feed to the cattle in the cowshed, said happily that the Simmental beef cattle we breed have the characteristics of fast growth, more muscle, less fat, etc., with better meat performance and higher grade than ordinary beef, which has been favored by consumers for a long time. He currently raises 22 beef cattle, but he is not satisfied and plans to expand the scale next year.
China is the world's fourth largest beef producer, but the per capita output is low, and the gap between supply and demand is large, which also makes the beef strong and marketable. In 2016, Daiwan Village raised 960,000 yuan through upward striving and self-raising by villagers, built five standardized cattle sheds with a total area of 4,000 square meters, and hired beef cattle breeding experts to support the door-to-door support, cultivate professional breeding households, and officially enter the beef cattle breeding industry.
The development of beef cattle breeding industry has not only brought economic benefits, but also the ecological benefits it produces cannot be underestimated. Tan Chenghua, deputy senior veterinarian of Shawan Town Animal Defense Station, introduced that the grass feed for beef is made from 70 acres of yellow bamboo grass and straw from farmers planted in the village independently after scientific processing. At the same time, the village also turns the manure of beef cattle into organic fertilizer through pollution-free treatment. This breeding model of "manure returning to the field, comprehensive utilization, and circular development" not only effectively solves the problem of straw burning, but also reduces the cost of developing planting and breeding industry in the village.
At present, we have raised more than 200 beef cattle in the village, and a total of 50 heads have been slaughtered this year, with sales of 700,000 yuan, and the average income of farmers has increased by 70,000 yuan. Gong Fuqun, secretary of the Party branch of Daiwan Village, said with confidence that in the next step, Daiwan Village will further improve the scientific and large-scale level of the beef cattle breeding industry, and inject more vitality into the revitalization of the rural industry.
*: Leshan News Network.