As the saying goes, there are three hundred and sixty lines, and every line makes a champion. Cao Hongmei, who resigned from her job as deputy township head, came to the countryside to raise cattle and became a "cattle official". After raising cattle and becoming rich, she still did not forget her fellow villagers. Today, the Shengying Breeding Farmers Professional Cooperative founded by her is listed as a demonstration base for poverty alleviation by the National Association for Science and Technology, and a national and provincial women's agricultural entrepreneurship base.
The woman who is feeding the cows in the cattle pen is Cao Hongmei. As a woman, she is carrying a bag of silage feed weighing nearly 100 jins to feed the cows, and her movements are very agile and skillful. She told reporters that she used to be the deputy head of Zhetu Township in Guangnan County, and she often went to the village to carry out work. Seeing that a lot of land in the countryside was abandoned, she decided to resign and return to the countryside to raise cattle.
In March 2015, Cao Hongmei, who was ready to do something, came to Muzha Village, Zhetu Township, and founded the Guangnan County Shengying Breeding Farmers Professional Cooperative with a registered capital of 5 million yuan. It is a professional farmer specializing in beef cattle breeding and sales. cooperative. With an area of 15 mu, a cow base with more than 600 breeding cows a year and 5,741 mu of supporting pasture gradually took shape, at this time there was not much money left, which made her in a dilemma.
Cao Hongmei said that she resigned from the deputy township head to raise cattle, and she started from scratch, step by step. From the very beginning, people who didn’t even know how to feed cattle, through slow thinking, met those who didn’t understand. If she has any questions, she actively consults relevant experts and technical personnel. Today, she has become a technical expert in the cattle breeding industry.
Guangnan Cao Hongmei, director of Shengying Breeding Farmers Professional Cooperative: "The small ones are vaccinating cattle and feeding medicines, etc., and the big ones include cow dystocia, displacement, and uterine shedding that require stitches. I do it myself. "
Cultivate a piece of land and bring wealth to the people of one side. At present, Cao Hongmei has built two cattle farms in Muzha Village, Zhetu Township, with a stock of 540 Wenshan peak cattle, of which 319 are breeding cows over 18 months old. Since the establishment of the cooperative, it has adopted the model of "party branch + base + farmers" and has absorbed a total of 2,662 people from 7 village committees in Zhetu Township. The stored feed is sold to the cooperative to increase income. From 2016 to 2020, the cooperative distributed a total of more than 2.2 million yuan in dividends for industrial benefits.
Cao Hongmei, director of Guangnan Shengying Breeding Farmers Professional Cooperative: "Last year we slaughtered 495 cows, our sales income was 3.48 million, and the profit was 800,000 to 900,000 yuan. We distributed 723,800 yuan to the common people, and I left A profit of more than 100,000 yuan.”
In addition, Cao Hongmei’s cooperative also provides 6 stable jobs for registered impoverished households, helping 6 impoverished households increase their annual income by more than 36,000 yuan, which has been well received by everyone.
Li Yunhuan, an employee of Guangnan Shengying Breeding Farmers Professional Cooperative: "My two children are both studying in college, and they spend 30,000 to 40,000 yuan a year. After studying, we work here, with an income of 40,000 to 50,000 yuan a year, and a little bonus, so we can barely maintain our life."
Cao Guangde, employee of Guangnan Shengying Breeding Farmers Professional Cooperative: "I just built the farm I just work here, with an income of more than 50,000 yuan every year. I have saved more than 100,000 yuan. I don’t want to build a house at home. I have made up my mind and am going to buy a house in Guangnan The development of the
cooperative has never forgotten its roots, and its passion for getting rich is with the folks. Over the years, Cao Hongmei has adhered to the concept of "industrial development, income increase for the masses, and business efficiency". In-depth integration of industrial development, farmers' income increase and cooperative efficiency increase. In recent years, her cooperative has been listed as the National Association for Science and Technology Poverty Alleviation Demonstration Base, National and Provincial Women's Agricultural Entrepreneurship Base, State Poverty Alleviation Star Enterprise and other honors.
Guangnan County Financial Media: Hu Jun Li Wenbin
Editor: Wang Yunxia Zheng Zeya
Production: Huang He Wang Nan