In recent years, Yuqing County has vigorously promoted the implementation of the comprehensive utilization of crop straw, turning the "burden" of farmland such as corn straw into treasure, and turning it into forage for cattle raising through collection, storage, transfer and processing, so as to achieve a bumper harvest of ecological and economic benefits.
At the beef cattle farm of Wang Kaifu, a large cattle farmer in Chunjing Village, Baini Township, Yuqing County, workers are busy putting recycled corn and rice straw into a straw baler for processing. As the machine runs at a rapid pace, piles of corn stalks are crushed and baled into bales of feed. The machine "eats" the corn stalks, and "spits them out" to become cattle feed, which is not only nutritious, but also easy to store.
"We recycle the straw pulled by the surrounding people for processing and packaging, and after fermentation, it can be used to feed the cattle. At present, there are 100 cows in the enclosure, which requires about one ton of straw feed per day, and we plan to introduce another 100 cows in the future, which will cost about two tons of straw feed a day. Wang Kaifu, head of Yuqing County Chaochang Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Co., Ltd., said.
In the past, crop straw became a major problem for villagers during the harvest season, and random stacking and burning not only wasted resources, but also polluted the environment. Since the construction of the beef cattle farm, villager Chen Guangquan has pulled his crop straw to the cattle farm to sell as feed, and this year he has sold more than 2,000 catties. The waste that used to be a headache for farmers has now become a "sweet treat" to help farmers increase their income.
"In the past, most of our corn stalks were taken home to feed the cattle, and some of them were cut in the soil, but now the cattle farm here has started to raise cattle, and we can cut them and sell them to him, a ton is more than 200 yuan, and now I can also come to him to work as a temporary worker, which is also more than 100 yuan a day, which increases our income." Chen Guangquan of the Pingyan villager group of Chunjing Village said.
"In the past, the cost per ton of forage was about 700 yuan to buy forage from other places, but now the cost per ton can be reduced by about 20% by using waste corn straw to process forage, and the cost can be saved by about 60,000 yuan per year." Wang Kaifu said.
Straw cattle farming not only turns waste into treasure, but also greatly reduces the cost of cattle raising. Nowadays, straw feed not only effectively solves the problem of straw treatment, but also ensures the feed supply of the local beef cattle industry, and strongly promotes the development of green agriculture.
Source: Yu Qing today
Editor: Chen Shanshan