Daily Life of Pig Farming in 1970

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After dinner, Su Yaoyun asked her brother to take her to call home.

　　Although Su Cheng couldn't understand why she was in such a hurry, he still took her back to the army to make a phone call and chat with his parents at home.

　　Su Yaoyun took the phone from him and asked Su Ming impatiently: "Dad, have we found any piglets for our village? Are there any with better quality?"

　　At first, Su Ming was worried that his daughter might have some urgent business. When he heard her question, he smiled and said, "There are a lot of good pigs. Your eldest brother has been looking for them every day. He has picked out about 20 of them. But we can't afford too many, so we plan to take 10 first."

　　Su Yaoyun said hurriedly, "Dad, let's get 10 first. One boar will be enough. But we can't raise one pig per family like we used to."

　　"These piglets are our breeding pigs, which are our foundation. They must be raised well to produce better piglets. If they are raised in different households, everyone will feed them differently."

　　"It's OK if it's not the busy farming season. Even if it is, people may not be able to take care of it. It's better to let two people specialize in raising pigs, which saves time and effort."

　　Since Su Yaoyun decided to develop Sujia Village into a large-scale farm, he often called Su Ming and described the various benefits of raising pigs to him. Not only can everyone have enough food, but it also solves the employment problem of young and middle-aged people in the village.

　　It just so happened that the pigs of Sujia Village were famous, and G Province had become an agricultural development experimental zone under the promotion of her daughter... Su Ming felt that she was still strong and wanted to make more contributions to the village while she was young. When she heard the future her daughter envisioned for her, she couldn't help but feel excited.

　　Therefore, his enthusiasm also infected the village cadres. Who doesn't want to have enough food? Who doesn't want to be rich? But what's the point of just farming? Everyone still can't eat enough, so why not give it a try? Maybe the bicycle can turn into a motorcycle.

　　If it works, you will have money in your pocket and have political achievements. If it doesn't work, you can sell it when the time comes, after all, everyone wants to eat meat.

　　The village cadres took the villagers into action as if they were injected with chicken blood. As for the villagers, there was no objection, naturally because Su Yaoyun led everyone to grow Chinese medicinal herbs a few months ago, and the effect was good. After Su Jingwei ran to the pharmacy and hospital many times, a hospital had already booked the medicinal herbs they planted and paid a deposit.

　　And now they heard that Yaoyun went out and stayed in the army. They all thought that the little girl was capable and was willing to follow the Su family.

　　Su Ming thought about it and realized that it made sense. After a moment's hesitation, he said, "I will ask the educated youth and villagers to help build a big pig shed tomorrow."

　　Seeing that Su Ming had agreed, Su Yaoyun continued, "In addition to feeding the pigs grass, we also mix some rice bran for them to eat, and we also need to urge them to get up and move around from time to time."

　　Su Ming naturally had no objection. Now everyone was waiting for the piglets to come over and have a big fight.

　　However, he hesitated and said, "Yaoyun, you said last time that there is a way to make the pigs not need to be fed for so long in the future, and they can be stronger. Is there any progress? Your eldest brother said that the people in the pig farm said that there are Landrace pigs and Duroc pigs. These two kinds of pigs are easy to raise. Should we change the breed?"