The picture shows a corner of the cattle cattle demonstration site in Huangzhai Town, Chongxin County, Pingliang City, Gansu Province. (Data photo) Yan Heping
The picture shows a corner of the cattle cattle demonstration site in Huangzhai Town, Chongxin County, Pingliang City, Gansu Province. (Data photo) Yan Heping
China News Service Lanzhou, August 4 (Li Fangfang and Wei Jianjun) "Pingliang Red Bull" is the leading industry in the prosperous and strong city of Pingliang City, Gansu Province. It is positioned by industry experts as the "Moutai" of the cattle industry and is also a magic weapon for local people to get rid of poverty and become rich.
cave is a unique landscape on the Loess Plateau, a lingering nostalgia in the hearts of the local people, and carries the long and splendid farming civilization of the Chinese nation. As a breeding habit that has been carried out in Longdong for many years, cattle raising was not uncommon in the rural areas of the city, and it was only gradually eliminated in the past decade...
In midsummer, Pingtougou Village, Jinping Town, Chongxin County, Pingliang Red Bulls with strong bodies and bright fur are leisurely eating forage in a spacious and clean cattle farm. The caves built along the cliffs are simple, vicissitudes and clean, perfectly combined with the surrounding green mountains and green waters, depicting a pastoral painting with a very long-distance style.
Chongxin County has had a tradition of raising cattle since ancient times. With the continuous advancement of the cave cattle breeding demonstration belt project, Pingtougou Village has become a famous summer resort far and wide because of its mountains, water, green and popular. Because of its unique cave on the Loess Plateau, it has become an internet celebrity check-in place for surrounding people to relax and travel on weekends.
"From I can remember, almost every household in the village would raise one or two cattle to plow the land." Zhu Haiping, a big cattle breeder born in the 1980s, recalled that at that time, people lived and lived in caves, and animals were kept in caves. The caves were homes and were also the sustenance of people's emotions.
Cat breeding demonstration site in Pingtougou Cave Cave, Jinping Town, Chongxin County. (Data photo) Yang Xin
With the continuous advancement of new rural construction and poverty alleviation, beautiful and unique well-off houses have risen. Chongxin County took the lead in exploring and implementing the development model of ecological cattle breeding in Pingtougou Village, Jinping Town. By revitalizing land resources and comprehensively managing the environment, the old caves have turned into "treasure pot" for the people to increase their income and become rich.
Wen Tao, deputy mayor of Jinping Town, said that raising cattle in caves has the natural advantages of warm winter and cool summer, ventilation and dryness, which can enhance the resistance of Red Bull's body, reduce diseases, and improve the quality of beef cattle. At the same time, the abandoned caves are far away from the residential areas of the masses. The open breeding environment and advanced management methods make people unable to see the phenomenon of "dirty, messy and poor" cattle raising in the caves in the past.
According to Wen Tao, two demonstration sites for ecological cattle breeding in caves have been built in recent years. By developing the cattle industry, Pingtougou-Yaowa demonstration belt alone has led 33 households and 96 people to get rid of poverty, and among the disposable income of the poverty-stricken households, the proportion of the cattle industry income has reached 70%.
55-year-old Guan Haobin is one of the earliest villagers to raise cattle in Yaowa Village. From the initial one cultivated cattle to the present nine industrial cattle, a family of seven has been lifted out of poverty and made it rich by Pingliang Red Bull. " Raising a cattle can make up 2,000 yuan. Now we can get rid of poverty without breaking from the policy, and we can continue to enjoy the support of the government." As we speak, Lao Guan was very content.
The "respectful model" of industrial development is due to cattle raising in caves, Pingtougou Village has become a star village frequently seen in the media, and Liang Zhongren and Zhu Haiping have become well-known "cattle raising experts". In more than three years, Zhu Haiping has grown from the initial 10 cattle to more than 150, and her income has also increased from 20,000 yuan to 300,000 yuan, a 10-fold increase.
Many young people who go out sigh that the income from raising cattle is so high? Liang Yongfeng, the village party secretary of Pingtougou Village, calculated the calculation: According to the breeding scale of 3-5 cattle, it takes 40,000 yuan to build a new cattle shed, and only 10,000 yuan to renovate a cave, and the policy of each cave renovation subsidy of 10,000 yuan to poor households.
In addition, a subsidy of 3,000 yuan per Red Bull basic cow raised in caves by former poor households. Currently, a 6-month-old Pingliang Red Bull is priced at nearly 10,000 yuan. On the one hand, such a subsidy policy will help increase farmers' enthusiasm for raising cattle in caves, and on the other hand, it will expand the breeding scale of Pingliang Red Bull population.
Walking into Ganzhuang Village, a brand that "making every effort to build a Red Bull characteristic town" is particularly eye-catching. In the past two years, Huangzhai Town has built a demonstration belt for cattle breeding in Ganzhuang-Damaigou-Xiwa cave breeding in a goal of building a characteristic town of Red Bull breeding.Zhang Xiaolong, mayor of Huangzhai Town, said that the number of red bulls raised in Huangzhai Town is currently the largest among the seven demonstration zones.
From encouraging cattle raising to providing technical support to ensuring sales, in order to increase cattle raising income, Chongxin County has comprehensively promoted industrial poverty alleviation models such as "state-owned companies + leading enterprises + cooperatives + poor households", providing farmers with all-round, full-process and all-weather "nanny-style" services.
"Run Bull to achieve a well-off life" has become a true portrayal of the people in Chongxin County getting rich and increasing their income. The ecological model of agricultural and tourism integration. As the "profile" of cattle raising in caves continues to expand, Chongxin County has successively built seven cave ecological cattle raising demonstration zones including Yaowa-Pingtougou, Liangshuiquan-Gangnian, and transformed a total of 1,126 abandoned caves and raised more than 3,800 red cattle.
According to the next plan, Chongxin County will also seize the opportunity of Pingliang Red Bull being included in the national industrial cluster and the city building Pingliang Red Bull's national breeding core area, continue to give full play to the advantages of cattle breeding in caves, combine the deepening of the rural collective property rights system and the revitalization and utilization of idle homestead land, and ultimately achieve the goal of full coverage of cattle breeding in caves.
Li Sanlu, director of the Pingliang Cattle Industry Development Office, said that cattle raising is a concrete practice of the "small group, large-scale" breeding idea of Pingliang Red Bull industry. It is an innovative measure for Chongxin County to build the core area of Pingliang Red Bull, and it is also a useful attempt for Pingliang to accelerate the transformation of agricultural development mode and vigorously promote the development of modern ecological circular agriculture.
pavilions hide deep green areas, the trickle of streams tug the heartstrings, the sound of birds singing in the mountains is crisp, and the cowbells are jingling in your ears... In recent years, Chongxin has combined cattle raising in caves with farming culture, health and wellness, and rural tourism, and implemented the "Red Bull+" and "Agriculture+" projects. The "agricultural tribe" and "Red Bull Town" created with cattle culture as the theme has become the "new favorite" of tourism. (End)
Source: China News Network
