Agricultural giant since 1983

Chapter 83
Li Lei brought Liang Tiansheng to the chicken farm. Liang Tiansheng was a little strange when he got off the car, "Boss, didn't you let me raise pigs? Why did you come here? Oh, you have to deal with things first when you come to the chicken farm?"

"No, you raise piglets here for a few months first, and then you go to work in the pig farm!" Li Lei pointed to the door of the chicken farm, and saw that a small pigpen had already been built there.

In large-scale breeding, chickens and pigs cannot be mixed together, because alternate infection may occur, which is more likely to cause certain diseases.

Fortunately, Li Lei just temporarily built a small pigsty here, and there is still a certain distance from the chicken coop. As long as the disinfection is strictly managed, the problem is not big.

"This is the pig you want to raise!" Li Lei took him to the pigsty, where a group of piglets were raised. These piglets had medium-sized heads, straight and long faces, big and drooping ears, flat bodies, and a low back. Narrow, sloping buttocks, thick limbs, black body coat, dense and long hair, more bristles.

"This is a civilian pig?" Liang Tiansheng, who has accumulated rich experience in raising pigs in the army, recognized the breed of these little piglets at a glance.

There is really no typo. This kind of pig is indeed called Minzhu. In the late Qing Dynasty, immigrants from the Guandong brought small North China black pigs from Hebei and medium-sized North China black pigs from Shandong to the Northeast. After long-term domestication and selection, they formed Min pig is an excellent breed.

This breed has excellent characteristics such as high reproductive performance, strong stress resistance, good meat fat quality, and good hybrid utilization effect. In the 80s, this kind of pig was raised in many areas in the north, and Heyang County was no exception.

In the new century, with the growth of economic income, people's eating habits have gradually changed. Minority pigs with a low lean meat rate are no longer popular in the market, and China's pig breeding market is quickly occupied by imported pigs.

The lean-meat pig breeds imported from abroad are mainly large white pigs, landrace pigs and Duroc pigs bred in the United Kingdom, Denmark, the United States and other countries in the last century. They have high lean meat percentage, short feeding cycle and strong production performance , High economic benefits and other characteristics and advantages.

These foreign white pigs grow fast and have low feeding costs. They can be slaughtered in an average of 6 months, and only consume 2-3 kg of feed for each kg of weight gain. The price is much cheaper than that of native pigs.

However, the traditional Chinese native pigs grow slowly and are small in number. They can be slaughtered in an average of one year, and they need to consume 5 kg of feed for every kg of weight gain.

Coupled with the high fat rate and other reasons, the Chinese aborigines gradually disappeared from the farms. Only the people in the village still kept these local pig breeds according to the past habits. not enough.

These foreign breeding pigs once occupied more than 90.00% of the domestic breeding pig market. Like the chicken industry, domestic pig companies also spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year to import breeding pigs from abroad.

However, there are not many local excellent breeds such as Min pig, Jinhua two-headed black pig, Chenghua pig, Taihu pig, Neijiang pig, Guangdong large white pig, Wujin pig, Tibetan pig, Rongchang pig and so on.

Li Lei once read a hot search saying that Chenghua pig, which is the most suitable for stir-frying twice-cooked pork, is almost extinct. This is one of the manifestations of this phenomenon.

Many older people often say that pork is not as delicious as it used to be. This is actually because of the change of pig breed.

The dining habits of a region or a country are closely related to raw materials. Twice-cooked pork was developed by Sichuan chefs according to the characteristics of Chenghua pigs. The thin-skinned, tender, fat and thin Chenghua pork was replaced by York pork, which is almost all lean meat. The taste of twice-cooked pork is definitely different.

In the past, people in Wuxi used Erhualian pork, which is the meat of Taihu pig. This kind of pig has a lot of fat and delicious meat. It is most suitable for making braised pork. If you replace it with Duroc pig, you can try to find fatter meat to make it. Braised pork, after all, can't make that kind of taste.

Some high-end restaurants may try their best to find Chenghua pigs and Taihu pigs to make twice-cooked pork and braised pork. Ordinary small roadside restaurants do not have this ability; so it is only a few people who can enjoy the pork aroma in their childhood memories. to the privilege.

But then again, China consumes 6000 million tons of pork annually, which is about [-] catties per person on average. The growth efficiency of local pigs cannot meet this demand anyway.

So it’s still the same sentence, you have to solve the problem of whether you can eat it first, and then talk about the problem of whether it is good to eat. If you just think about eating well, you may not be able to eat it in the end.

"It's a civilian pig. You should have raised this kind of pig in the army, right? But the method of raising pigs here is a little different from that in the army." Li Lei asked Hanwa to pass the freshly taken feed to Liang Tiansheng, "In the future, You feed the pigs with this feed, and you weigh the piglets every day to record the weight change.”

Liang Tiansheng took some feed and put it in his mouth to taste slowly, "The pigs enjoy the cornmeal, bean cake, wheat bran, and salt so much! They eat so well!"

"Eat well to grow fast, what do you feed pigs in the army?" Li Lei asked curiously.

"What else can it be? Is there anything to eat? The swill from the cafeteria, the pigweed that was harvested in the surrounding fields, and the fermented feed invented by Mr. Ye. The variety is very miscellaneous; It is an important task, and sometimes when the nearby pigweeds are finished, they will go to the distance to fight, which is like a zipper."

"For a while, I went out to fight pigweed three times a day, and it took ten miles to go back and forth. This training volume was higher than that of field troops!"

"I've fought a lot with pigweed, and I've developed my long-distance and cross-country skills. I won No. 5 in the whole army competition! I also got a third-class merit. Great disarmament, maybe I can also be promoted and stay in the army as an officer!"

Speaking of these glorious past events, Liang Tiansheng also sighed, feeling that he was born at an untimely time.

"Looks like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is also among our pig raising soldiers!" Shocked, the one who came to my farm to raise pigs turned out to be the Veteran King!
"That's right! I'm not only good at feeding pigs, I'm also good at slaughtering pigs! If I don't come to work here, I might follow Uncle San to kill pigs everywhere. I can't make a lot of money, so it's okay to mix some oil and water by myself! It’s just hard to talk about daughters-in-law, women in the village are afraid of pig butchers, and think they are too fierce!”

It seems that even if you can eat meat often, it can't change your inherent impression.

"By the way, is the Teacher Ye you mentioned just now Ye Honghai?" This person's experience is too legendary.

He can get first-class merit by raising pigs alone, and has been received by teachers eleven times. He was once sent to Africa by Comrade Wu Hao to teach pig raising experience. If Li Lei hadn't read the information, he would not have believed it when told him.

(End of this chapter)