Pig farming cooperatives lead the mass market

“Since joining the cooperative, my family's income has been bullish. This year it is estimated that there is a profit of 400,000 yuan.” On August 9th, in the Zhiziba Village, Yumin Township, Yuechi County, Yang Jianwei, a local pig farmer, pointed to a roadside building. Dingshe said to the author happily. At present, the price of live pigs remains high, and some farmers are mixed. However, when the author investigated in Zhizhiba Village, he discovered that farmers who are backed by professional cooperatives have made booming pig breeding.

According to Tu Yongba, chairman of the Zhiziba Village Pig Breeding Professional Cooperatives Association, in September 2008, the seven professional hog farmers in the village united to form a professional hog farming cooperative. Cooperatives make full use of their advantages in the market, information and aquaculture technologies, and actively provide assistance to their members in solving problems in production development through the unified provision of piglets, unified disease prevention and control, unified technical training, unified management, unified feed, and unified sales production and business model. Various problems. In that year, the aquaculture efficiency of the members of the cooperatives has grown substantially, far exceeding the "single fight alone." In the first half of last year, under the conditions of a weak market for live pigs in the country, due to the protection of cooperatives, the income of cooperative members did not substantially decrease. Driven by cooperatives, at present, Yumin Town has developed 268 live pig breeding members, among which there are 30 breeding farms with more than 500 live pigs, and more than 200 farmer households with more than 50 live pigs.

“Joining the cooperative not only strengthens the confidence of the members in developing pig breeding, but also has a good radiation promotion for the surrounding farmers. Nowadays, some large hog farmers in neighboring townships have also asked to join our cooperatives.” Speaking of cooperatives Tu Yongwei is proud of the development.