In rural Guangxi, there is an uncle who raises 4,000 head of cattle, but he can reduce the cost of raising them to almost zero.
What is even more surprising is that he does not make a profit by selling cattle, but makes a lot of money from cow dung.
Through cow dung, he has accumulated hundreds of millions of fortunes and is known as the "king of cow dung".
How did he turn cow dung into treasure?
The source in this article comes from the official media (Agricultural TV Network), released on June 11, 2018, but in order to improve the readability of the article, the details may be polished, please read sensibly, for reference only!
No one would have thought that an ordinary mechanic has now become a billionaire, and he is - Wong Bingquan.
Born into a poor family, Wong Bingquan could not afford to go to school, and had to go out to earn a living after only finishing junior high school.
However, fate has been ups and downs, and his store cannot escape the fate of closing, at this time, where should Huang Bingquan go?
In 1986, Wong Bingquan sensed that Beihai, Guangxi was ushering in a peak of part-time work, and he keenly seized the opportunity in the catering industry, and resolutely decided to open his own restaurant, which was later loved by diners.
The most famous thing in Dongyuan Restaurant is the owner's secret medicinal wine, which is not only delicious and delicious, but also has a good health care effect, and is favored by diners.
As the restaurant's business grew booming and its scale was expanding, Wong saw an opportunity and decided to take it a step further and set up his own winery.
The distillery was soon in operation and business was booming, but a problem arose as a large number of by-products in the winemaking process, "sake lees", which accumulated more and more and were very difficult to deal with.
Huang Bingquan pondered and meditated, and finally found a breakthrough in the problem by chance - cattle raising!
It turns out that cows can eat 40 kilograms of feed a day, and if you raise some cattle and feed them on sake lees, wouldn't it be the best of both worlds?
In 2006, Wong set up his own cattle farm in his hometown of Guangxi, and began to raise cattle, choosing Indian buffalo, which eats a lot of food and can effectively consume distiller's grains.
In the beginning, the herd's appetite for sake lees was very low, so in order to get the cattle used to the new food, Wong Bingquan tried to spread grass on the sake lees and slowly induce the cattle to eat.
After a period of adaptation, the herd was finally able to eat feed containing distiller's grains.
In this way, the operation of the cattle farm gradually got on the right track, and Huang Bingquan strictly controlled the cost, so that the cost of raising a cow was reduced to a very low level.
He also uses part of his income to improve the breeding conditions of cattle and continuously optimize the management process.
In the winter of 2008, Huang Bingquan encountered his first major dilemma, when Guangxi was hit by a rare cold snap, and the temperature plummeted to more than 10 degrees below zero.
Such weather is a huge existential threat to buffalo from India.
Wong was aware of the seriousness of the situation, but he did not back down, and in order to protect the cattle from freezing to death, he tried to get the heat of the cattle - from purchasing large quantities of firewood to barbecue the barn, to buying all kinds of warm supplies, he almost did everything in his power.
This time, Wong spent a total of more than 400,000 yuan to ensure the survival of the cattle.
The next challenge was the food for the cattle, as the cold weather had led to a sharp reduction in forage production, and improving the diet of the cattle had become a priority.
In order to save costs, Wong Bingquan found a large number of peanut shells as additives, but this caused digestive problems in the herd, which eventually caused severe constipation.
In the face of the rapid deterioration of the herd's condition, Wong Bingquan came up with an unbelievable idea: let the staff manually help the cattle to defecate!
For the problem of constipation in the herd, Huang Bingquan racked his brains to find a breakthrough, this day passing through an orchard, he had an idea, contacted the orchard to purchase a large number of peels back to the farm to try to feed the cattle, the cellulose in the peel can help digestion, thinking that it will effectively relieve the problem of constipation.
Surprisingly, after feeding the peel, the herd developed a new symptom - mouth and tongue ulcers, which turned out to be caused by pineapple enzyme, and the peel was perishable and costly, and Wong Bingquan was in trouble again.
However, instead of giving up, he contacted agricultural experts to develop a medicinal strain that could be cultivated in large quantities in the peel of the fruit, fermented and stored for long-term consumption by cattle.
This method not only solves the problems of herd disease and peel rot, but also greatly reduces the cost of breeding, from 20 yuan to 3 yuan per day.
After the great success of fermenting the peel, Wong had a new idea, he experimented with pineapple enzyme to dissolve the shell of pearl mussels, and then mixed the calcium-rich mussel shells into the peel to become a high-quality calcium supplement for cattle, further enriching the feed variety.
After a series of technological innovations, Wong Bingquan's cattle farm quickly expanded to 2,000 heads.
As the number of cattle increased, the accumulation of cow dung became a problem.
At first, Wong collected cow dung in makeshift ponds, but the unpleasant smell of the large amount of cow dung attracted dissatisfaction and complaints from the surrounding villagers, and Wong realized that he could no longer deal with it.
In 2008, under the guidance of experts, Wong Bingquan built a biogas digester to collect cow manure and ferment it into biogas, which not only solved the odor problem, but also provided clean energy to the cattle farm and winery.
However, it takes a certain amount of time for cow dung to be converted into biogas, and the rate at which cattle continue to produce manure every day does not wait for it, so in order to speed up the fermentation efficiency, Wong Bingquan introduced a large number of earthworms to participate in it, and finally, he perfectly realized the recycling from cow dung to biogas.
In 2010, Mr. Wong spotted an abandoned salt pan and invested millions to renovate it in preparation for the start of farming, still planning to use cow dung to grow fish.
Wong Ping-kuen puts fry in the pond and piles fermented cow dung at the edge of the pond, and the nutrients contained in the cow dung flow in with the rainwater, making it a good feed for algae and fish food in the pond.
Soon, the fish raised on cow dung grew plump, and the yield and quality increased dramatically, bringing Wong millions of extra dollars a year, and three years later, he had more than 4,000 cattle on hand.
Since 2015, Huang Bingquan suddenly announced the termination of fish farming, and no longer ** any cattle, this move shocked everyone, and they speculated whether he was crazy, in fact, Huang Bingquan already had an overall plan in mind.
Wong Bingquan began to try to make organic fertilizer from cow dung for the surrounding farmers.
At first, because the fertilizer was very peculiar, no farmer dared to use it, so Huang Bingquan could only give it to some familiar small farmers and relatives and friends for experimentation.
Despite their doubts, these people sprinkled organic fertilizer in the ground, and surprisingly, a year later, the crop yield of these plots increased by more than 20%, and the result finally made everyone look at the cow dung fertilizer and ordered it one after another.
In the years that followed, Wong began mass-producing this unique organic fertilizer and selling it to many places.
Due to the high quality and low price of this fertilizer, Wong Bingquan can sell tens of thousands of tons a year, and the sales channel is constantly expanding.
With a steady stream of sales, Wong began to focus on reducing production costs and improving efficiency, experimenting with different formulations and adding various nutrients.
Finally, at the end of 2016, Wong Bingquan developed a high-quality and inexpensive high-quality cow manure fertilizer and applied for patent protection, which has a higher yield and better color.
Unexpectedly, this new fertilizer quickly occupied the market in less than half a year after it was listed, becoming one of the most popular organic fertilizers in the country, with a large increase in sales, and Huang Bingquan's annual revenue directly increased by nearly 10 million yuan.
Thanks to the windfall profits from fertilizer sales, Wong has also accumulated a considerable amount of money, and in order to give back to his hometown, he used part of the profits to upgrade the village's infrastructure.
First, all the dirt roads in the village were paved into cement roads, and the teaching buildings of the village elementary school were rebuilt, which made the villagers respect him.
Wong Ping-kuen is not satisfied with this, he plans to use cow manure to recycle more by-products to solve the problem of waste disposal on the farm and increase economic efficiency.
He has collaborated with local research institutes to develop a new process for producing bio-natural gas from cow dung, which is expected to add tens of millions of dollars to his net profit every year.
It can be seen that the environmental, social and economic benefits brought by Wong Pingquan's use of cow dung, a breeding waste, are multifaceted.