Chapter 263: Why are you so nervous? People are here to see the pigs, not you!
Seeing that Zhang Zhenhua had no idea about the follow-up plans, Su Wenchen spoke directly.
"Since the chicken farm has temporarily come to a standstill, I think we can focus our efforts on the pig farm next year to promote the development of our pig farming industry."
"Of course, at the chicken farm, you can also think of ways to improve transportation. See if the paperboard factory can just supply egg trays made of paper pulp and plastic film."
"If not, we can ask the foreign trade department to see how much foreign exchange it would cost to import that kind of paper pulp and plastic film equipment from abroad. If it's cheap, we can help the paper shell factory apply for a set."
"But if it's too expensive, forget it."
Su Wenchen himself didn't know when the egg trays made of paper pulp directly plastic film became popular.
But it is most likely not now, because as the largest local chicken farming industry, the trucks carrying eggs from the supply and marketing cooperative still all use a combination of straw and egg baskets.
For short-distance transportation using this method, the damage rate is actually acceptable.
Of course, the most important thing is short distance. Basically, the chickens are taken away from their chicken farms on the same day, distributed to various factory canteens in the afternoon, and put on the counters of supply and marketing cooperatives.
Even cracked eggs can be eaten if they are not left overnight.
Even since cracked eggs are considered defective and don’t require egg tickets, they are quite popular!
Many urban families with poor conditions and many children specifically buy these newly delivered cracked eggs.
Anyway, you can cook it as soon as you buy it, so the impact is actually limited.
But if it is a long distance, it is basically impossible. I guess most of the eggs will be broken into pieces when they arrive, especially after two or three days. I guess the broken eggs at the bottom will become rotten and it will be impossible to sell them.
When Zhang Zhenhua heard Su Wenchen's words, he immediately showed an interested expression.
"Director, what are these pulp egg trays you're talking about?"
“Is it made of cardboard?”
Su Wenchen waved his hand.
"It's not a cardboard shell, it's a packaging shell made by directly injecting paper pulp into small round pits."
"Putting an egg in a small pit can effectively prevent the eggs from colliding with each other."
"I've also heard that foreign countries use this packaging technology for egg transportation. I don't know if our paper shell factory has introduced it."
But Su Wenchen is probably in trouble.
Because the country is now introducing equipment, it is obvious that the main focus is on agricultural equipment and industrial equipment.
In most areas, there are not enough eggs for one’s own consumption!
Basically, apart from the supply and marketing cooperatives, there may be no other department that cares about egg transportation.
It may still be a bit early to think about long-distance transportation now.
However, Su Wenchen felt that it would not be a bad idea to let Zhang Zhenhua know about this matter in advance.
Just because something is not used now doesn’t mean it won’t be used in the future, because with development, this kind of thing is destined to go global.
After understanding it in advance, when you need it, you won’t be in a panic and don’t know what to do.
After hearing Su Wenchen's description, Zhang Zhenhua immediately nodded frequently.
"Director, your idea is great. Just dig small round holes and put the eggs in them. That will really prevent the eggs from bumping into each other."
"However, Director, I don't understand the paper pulp modeling you mentioned. But why don't we just find someone to buy some waste paper, re-cut it, and make it into the kind with small round holes?"
"Anyway, we can use this thing over and over again."
"Also, let's collect some waste paper and sell it cheaply to the nearby brigades. This kind of work is similar to pasting matchboxes, so there must be someone who can do it!"
When Su Wenchen heard this, he was stunned at first, then nodded in agreement.
"Indeed, with labor so cheap now, it's really unnecessary to spend foreign exchange directly to import pulp injection molding equipment."
"It's up to you to decide! This will also make life a little better for the members of the surrounding brigades."
"However, if there are too many people wanting to do this job, it's best to pick those from families with poor financial conditions."
Zhang Zhenhua agreed immediately, but still said.
"Director, there aren't that many impoverished communes in Beiwan anymore, ever since the province relaxed restrictions on family farming."
"After the county issued the notice, Beiwan Commune was the first to respond. Now almost every household has raised a lot of rabbits."
"They all buy young rabbits from our farm. We can sell them for both meat and skins. Our conditions have improved a lot, but there are also drawbacks. The riverside fields used to be full of leaves and weeds, but now they've been cleaned up."
"It's even said that many brigades had fights among members over grass, and it was only after the commune stepped in to demarcate the territory that the situation was settled."
"But fortunately, our commune has our farm, so we have no shortage of manure. I heard that the best corn fields here this year can produce up to 700 kilograms per mu!"
"Plus, every household raises rabbits, so there's plenty of fertilizer and the food yield is very high. Now almost every household doesn't go hungry. Otherwise, we wouldn't be able to find wild vegetables."
"For this, our Beiwan Commune was given the title of a high-yield farmland demonstration commune!"
"But this thing is not really scalable, because even if other communes were exhausted, they wouldn't be able to produce so much fertilizer."
Hearing what Zhang Zhenhua said, Yang Wanlou, who was standing next to him, was filled with envy.
The yield per mu is 700 kilograms, which is nearly seven times that of their poor place!
Even though they basically grow wheat, which is a fine grain, the difference is still huge.
Su Wenchen was not surprised to hear this yield. Considering the sufficient fertility and meticulous care of the demonstration field, this yield was not surprising.
However, this output is indeed enough for the people in their commune, and every family has surplus food.
In addition, there are more industries in the commune now, so as long as the poor families are not lazy, they will basically not go hungry.
Then Su Wenchen looked at the sky and found that it was getting late, so he said directly.
"It's getting late. I'm not going to waste my time here with you. Old Zhang, take Comrade Wan Lou from the branch and make some arrangements first!"
"Arrange a dormitory for him, then notify the Finance Department and transfer funds to the branch."
After a pause, Su Wenchen continued.
"Let's allocate 150,000 first!"
"Lao Zhang, is the 150,000 yuan left by the headquarters enough for you to maintain daily operations?"
Zhang Zhenhua thought about it.
"We've settled all the accounts for employee welfare purchases this year, so there's nothing left to spend. We can't spend any more on things like cardboard. Director, if the branch needs it, it's fine to transfer more."
Su Wenchen waved his hand.
"Fifteen thousand should be enough. We'll mainly be buying some farm tools and the like. You have to apply for large machinery before it's even issued. Otherwise, you won't be able to buy it even secondhand."
"By the way, I'm leaving for Beijing for a meeting tomorrow, and I probably won't be back before the New Year. Please discuss this with the Finance Department. After the accounts are transferred, see which deputy is willing to take up the position at the branch."
"This is considered an outbound assignment. The farm will provide some extra subsidies, and the company can still be registered with the main farm. I can be transferred back after two years."
"See if there are people willing to sign up, and then go to the branch to report after the New Year."
Hearing this, Zhang Zhenhua was stunned at first, and then responded directly.
"Okay, I'll have a meeting with a few people from the Finance Department and see who's willing to go."
"Director, is there something the department wants to arrange?"
Su Wenchen waved his hand.
"I'm not sure about the details, but it shouldn't be a big deal. If there's anything, I'll call the venue in advance."
"Okay then, take Comrade Wan Lou and go make the arrangements first!"
"I'm going to the pig farm to see how the white pigs are doing."
"It just so happens that I'm going to Beijing for a meeting this time, and I'm going to take this opportunity to inform the Ministry that I've successfully bred white pigs."
"I still have to discuss with the ministry how to arrange the promotion at that time, but no matter what, it is imperative to expand the scale of the pig farm next year."
"Because there will definitely be a lot of local farms and regional animal husbandry bureaus coming to borrow seeds for their own pigs next year, you should also have the farm office prepare for the reception in advance."
"You know what, the timing of your storefront renovation is really timely."
After separating from Zhang Zhenhua.
Su Wenchen strolled all the way to the pig house.
locker room.
The setting sun slanted down on the vents of the pigsty changing room, and through the neatly arranged ventilation window panes, it cast long and thin diamond-shaped light spots in the room.
Su Wenchen took advantage of the brightness of the setting sun.
He took off his cotton coat, put on a clean work suit, and pushed open the door of the pig house.
Suddenly, a warm current hit my face, mixed with the sweet and sour smell of fermented feed and a faint smell of pig manure.
As soon as I entered, I saw Xiao Zhou and a breeder pushing two small metal carts through the aisle.
The freshly steamed pumpkin in the truck bed was steaming hot and mixed with wheat bran and straw, attracting the pigs in the trough to look out.
The pink nose kept scratching on the iron fence, leaving traces of water.
Su Wenchen walked over and took a look at the iron front of the car with a smile.
"Oh, the pigs in our farm are eating pumpkins."
Hearing the voice, Xiao Zhou turned around and saw Su Wenchen with an excited look on his face.
"Director, you're back!"
"Master Fan said that some pigs have been constipated from eating only wheat bran and straw for the past few days. Let's feed them some pumpkin to improve their intestinal absorption."
"And Director, you know what, after adding some pumpkin, the pig's appetite has indeed increased a lot. Since it eats more, it naturally grows meat faster."
While talking, Xiao Zhou did not stop his actions. He used a specially made concave iron shovel to scoop a shovel of pig feed from the iron bucket and poured it into the cement trough. Four or five pigs in the same pigpen immediately rushed over and started eating rapidly.
For a moment, the sound of chewing and occasional satisfied snoring alternated in a cycle.
Su Wenchen walked over and looked at the healthy condition of these animals, nodded in appreciation.
"Yes, I think they are doing very well. Eating only wheat bran and straw may not be enough nutrition for the pigs. Adding some pumpkin to the mix can increase the pigs' nutrition and appetite. It seems to be working."
"And when the pumpkin harvest comes next autumn, we can go to the brigades below to collect more and mix it with straw for silage, which we can use as supplementary feed in the winter."
Because there are actually quite a lot of pumpkins grown in their local area, and most members grow them in their vegetable gardens and yards.
Because this thing contains a lot of sugar, it is a very good ingredient for cooking porridge or stewing soup in autumn and winter, especially in winter, but the storage technology is limited at this time.
It can only be stored in the cellar, and the space in most homes is limited. It also needs to store potatoes, radishes, and cabbages, which are winter vegetables with longer storage times, so the space left for pumpkins is actually very limited.
So generally in summer and autumn when all kinds of vegetables are rushing to the market, pumpkins are actually not expensive there.
Hearing Su Wenchen's words, Xiao Zhou nodded.
"Director, you have the same idea as Master Fan. He also mentioned to Section Chief Tan that we should add more pumpkin and alfalfa to the silage at the pig farm next year."
When Su Wenchen heard this, he immediately became curious.
"Can we feed alfalfa to pigs here? How is it? Do the pigs like it?"
If pigs can also be fed large quantities of this alfalfa forage, then they can be raised in large quantities at the branch farm.
Xiao Zhou shook his head.
"They can eat it, but not too much. We've tried it, and it causes bloating and constipation. So our ingredient team mixes some grass with corn stalks and soybean meal for a few days, then switches to pumpkin mixed with wheat bran and corn stalks."
"Our main winter feed is still silaged corn stalks, wheat bran and soybean meal, mixed with an appropriate amount of alfalfa and pumpkin."
"I heard from Master Fan that this way of feeding will make the plants grow much faster than just feeding them straw and wheat bran."
As he spoke, he pointed inside.
"Director, that's our third generation of white pigs. They're almost a hundred days old now. Look, they're almost as big as the ten-month-old black pigs over here."
"I heard from the veterinary team that they weighed them a few days ago, and the heaviest one weighed 150 kilograms."
"To be honest, Director, if we hadn't fed them ourselves every day, I wouldn't have believed that batch of pigs was a hundred days old."
"It grows so fast, but it eats so much too. We have to feed it four times a day."
Su Wenchen laughed when he heard this.
"If you grow fast you must eat a lot, otherwise you can just drink water and gain weight!"
"How can you eat water-injected meat like that?"
Hearing Su Wenchen say this, Xiao Zhou nodded and then said.
"Director, this fast-growing pork isn't as delicious as the slow-growing pork."
"It's the end of the year now! The pork we distributed this year was all raised by our own pigs. We slaughtered several of them, and they all had more lean meat and less fat. The lard was also much less than that of black pigs."
Su Wenchen nodded. He was not surprised by this because the pursuit of rapid weight gain would inevitably involve sacrificing something.
It would be strange if the taste of pigs that are slaughtered in just five or six months can catch up with those that are grown for a full year.
Moreover, this kind of rapid growth definitely means that muscle growth takes precedence over fat growth, so it is normal to have more lean meat.
While the two were talking, they may have seen several people standing here.
In the distance, Fan Defu was also walking quickly towards him. When he got closer, he saw that it was Su Wenchen.
"Director, it's you!"
"I was wondering why Xiao Zhou and the others were just feeding the pigs and started chatting here halfway through!"
"I thought something had happened to the pig!"
Su Wenchen smiled and waved his hand and said to Xiao Zhou.
"Okay, I won't disturb you from working anymore. Hurry up and feed the pigs!"
"Everyone behind here has been yelling at the top of their lungs for a long time."
Seeing Vanderford coming, Xiao Zhou immediately put the shovel into the iron bucket and pushed the cart towards the door of a pigpen in front.
Su Wenchen and Fan Defu walked along the aisle of the pigpen.
Along the way, there were white pigs, black pigs, spotted pigs of all ages and sizes in the pigpen.
Su Wenchen looked at a pig in the pigpen and asked as he walked.
"Xiao Zhou just said that the fastest-growing third-generation white pig is already 150 kilograms?"
"Did you encounter any problems? And all the growth records should be recorded!"
Vanderford said with a relaxed look.
"There are basically no problems. It grows very fast and is very healthy!"
Then he hesitated for a moment, but still spoke slowly.
"The biggest problem is that the meat is too young and has too high a lean meat ratio."
Then Vanderford said with a wry smile.
"During the year-end benefits distribution, many employees said the lean portion was too high, and the logistics department secretly distributed all the fat portions and deliberately gave them the lean portions!"
"It became quite a commotion afterwards."
"Deputy Director Miao and Deputy Director Zhang immediately started an investigation. They eventually discovered a misunderstanding. The lean meat content of the pigs was simply too high."
Su Wenchen said with a smile.
"There's nothing we can do about lean meat. It's good enough to have meat to eat. Why are you still trying to pick and choose?"
"And once conditions improve and there's no shortage of oil and water, I guess everyone will start eating lean meat."
After all, most people in later generations have enough oil and water intake, so they are not so fond of fatty meat, and their pursuit of meat has changed from oil and water to taste and flavor.
Moreover, Su Wenchen thought that once everyone's income increased, the farm would turn to breeding delicious black pigs.
However, it is still too early at this stage. Even if there are families with good financial conditions, they may feel that pigs raised for too short a time are not as delicious as those raised for a long time.
But for most rural members, if they had a choice, they would definitely choose to raise white pigs that can be marketed quickly.
Because they usually eat it at most once a year, for them, deliciousness definitely ranks behind the frequency of eating meat.
When Vanderford heard this, he immediately laughed.
"Director, what you said is true. Some of our employees really like to eat lean meat. But to be more precise, they like to eat the kind with both fat and lean meat. They say that it's not too dry or greasy, just right!"
Su Wenchen also smiled and shook his head.
"They are all good eaters, and they eat both fat and lean meat. It's good to have meat to eat."
However, even Su Wenchen had to admit that this kind of fat and lean meat was indeed the most fragrant.
Especially for those pigs that are raised for a longer time, the fat deposits faster in the later stage, and penetrates into the muscles to form the so-called intramuscular fat, which is later called marble. This kind of fat can enhance the tenderness, juiciness and aroma of the meat without being too greasy.
This happened some time ago when they celebrated their success in earning foreign exchange and slaughtered a hybrid pig that they had raised for more than a year.
However, this kind of breeding requires a long enough period of time to be easily formed. It is basically impossible to see pigs that are slaughtered within a few months.
As the two men were talking, they walked to the pigpen of the third generation of white pigs.
Vanderford also pointed to several white pigs in the pigsty and said with some pride.
"Director, these are the oldest group of third-generation white pigs."
"The oldest is 107 days old. I weighed him the other day and it was 162.4 jin."
"However, as the baby gets older, the daily weight gain rate has slowed down significantly. I estimate that by six months, the baby should be able to reach around 250 to 300 kilograms."
Then he pointed to a few local black pigs in the pigpen on the other side.
"At the time, for comparison purposes, we deliberately raised the same batch of local pigs and fed them the same feed. The heaviest pig weighed 67 kilograms."
Su Wenchen nodded.
"Yes, this is very intuitive and obvious."
"Now, all the white pig breeding records and growth records on our pig farm are ready!"
"I'll take one away later."
"I happen to be going to Beijing for a meeting this time. I'll bring it with me and report to the department."
"But I guess some people won't believe it just by looking at the records. Maybe someone will come and see for themselves. If I'm not here, you'll be responsible for connecting with them."
"Just say whatever you want to say normally. If you don't know, just blame it on me."
Su Wenchen didn't know if there were any other arrangements for this trip to the ministry, but he had already decided to take the opportunity to tell others about the white pig.
After all, it's the end of the year, and this can be considered his New Year's gift to the entire country.
Breeding hybrid lean white pigs so far in advance will have a huge impact on their country's meat consumption.
After all, pork is the largest meat supply in their country, and it is no exaggeration to say that it is one of the pillars of people's livelihood.
As soon as Su Wenchen said this, Vanderfu was stunned. As the third generation of white pigs grew faster and faster, Vanderfu had rehearsed this day countless times in his mind.
But when it really came, he found that he had overestimated his psychological quality.
Then he asked with a slightly trembling voice.
"Director, will the department send someone down?"
Although their farm is already a departmental property, the most senior leader Vanderfu has ever met is Lei Bailiang from the Foreign Trade Department.
And he had seen the other person chatting with Su Wenchen from afar in the cafeteria.
Now that he was asked to receive people from the ministry, it was impossible for him to say that he was not at all frightened.
Of course he wasn't afraid, because they didn't do anything deceptive.
He is just an unknown about the future.
I look forward to rewarding him later, but I'm also afraid that something unexpected might happen and he might not be recognized by his superiors.
After all, he knew very well that most of the hard work in this breeding was actually hard work, because the previous work of breeding and hybridization of breeding pigs was done by Su Wenchen.
At most, he can provide auxiliary care and prevent diseases. In fact, any experienced craftsman can do this job.
It was precisely because of all his hard work that he felt a little uneasy. If he had really raised the child himself, he would definitely not be like this.
Su Wenchen looked at the other person's nervous expression and patted him on the shoulder.
"Why are you so nervous? They're here to see the pigs, not you!"
When Vanderford heard this, although he knew that they were not here to see him, he could not help but feel nervous. It would be great if it were so easy to control.
Su Wenchen waved his hand.
"Okay, it's getting late. The pig farm is doing well. Keep it up. I'll have someone compile all the information I mentioned and send it to my office."
"Come get it when I leave tomorrow!"
"By the way, be careful during this period. Don't let anything unexpected happen."
Fan Defu naturally knew what Su Wenchen meant. After all, if the director here reported it, and then the people in the department came down to see that everything had gone wrong, they would have no way to explain themselves.
He assured directly and seriously.
"Director, don't worry. We have already arranged three shifts to guard the pig farm."
"And we screen people every day. If we find anything, we isolate them immediately, and then we slowly confirm the condition."
After hearing this, Su Wenchen waved his hand in relief.
"Okay, let's get everyone ready. Every employee on this farm has contributed, and the farm won't forget any of their contributions."
(End of this chapter)
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