Rivers and lakes crisscross, evergreen grass and trees... The famous waterfowl "lion-headed goose" likes this kind of growth environment the most. Walking into Hengfang Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd., which is located next to The Pig Gongling in Hengshan Town, Lianjiang City, it is as if you have entered a paradise, a group of geese walking with their heads held high, which is zhanjiang's famous "world goose king" - lion head goose breeding base.
In this picturesque base, you will often see two busy young figures, accompanied by geese, pulling their pants through the flock of geese, enjoying themselves. They are ma Yuhao and Zheng Zhiwen, the founders of Hengfang Agriculture, who returned from studying abroad. Nowadays, the lion-headed goose they breed is cooked into a local famous brand delicacy "salt rubbing goose", which has become a "treasure knot" for local farmers to increase their income and become rich.
Returning to the hometown to start a business: from layman to familiar habits
Ma Yuhao and Zheng Zhiwen have always been worried about the revitalization of their hometowns. They studied abroad and saw the importance of agricultural development, so they thought that their hometown had a unique geographical advantage in agricultural breeding, and they began to pay attention to the local agricultural development strategy when they were abroad.
After returning to China, the two young people began to extend their entrepreneurial tentacles to agriculture, and finally chose to breed geese. In 2019, Hengfang Agriculture was officially established. In these two years, in just two years, Ma Yuhao and Zheng Zhiwen have gone from being laymen in goose breeding to the characteristics of the life habits and growth cycle of breeding geese.
The two new farmers introduced that the lion's head goose is the largest excellent breed of goose cultivated in rural China, enjoying the reputation of "world goose king", and is native to Fubin Township, Raoping County, Chaozhou City, Guangdong Province. Its body is square, the head is thick and thick, the front torso is slightly tall, the feathers are grayish brown or silvery gray, the abdomen feathers are white, the head is large and the eyes are small, the top and sides of the head have a large black sarcoma, and the sarcoma of the goose can increase with age, resembling a lion's head, so it is called a lion's head goose.
They further introduced that the breeding geese will be bred for four years, allowing them to lay eggs and breed during the four most fertile years of their lives.
A purebred goose seedling can sell for 40-50 yuan, which is considerable, but the annual egg production is also very small, and each goose only produces 25-35 eggs per year, and the average weight of each egg is about 203 grams.
Intelligent exploration: multi-dimensional innovation from technology to product
Ma Yuhao and Zheng Zhiwen also explored the "smart breeding" model of goose breeding and the circular agricultural production mode of "breeding-breeding" combination. Behind this growth and transformation, for them, is the road of exploration that endures loneliness and has enough energy.
Zheng Zhiwen said that the concept of Hengfang Agriculture is to adhere to the "agriculture-oriented, goose-based", and strive to build an intensive, systematic and intelligent "three-in-one" innovative agricultural enterprise, which is mainly reflected in the three aspects of technological innovation, model innovation and product innovation.
In terms of technological innovation, Hengfang Agricultural Company has a stable technical guarantee, and has reached cooperation with companies with long-term breeding experience in breeding geese, which ensures the management of goose factories and the egg production rate of breeding geese. In addition, the hatching rate of goose eggs has been maintained at a stable state of high water level, and long-term technical exchanges and strategic cooperation have been carried out with the well-known Agricultural Engineering College in Guangdong, and the hatched goose fry are deeply loved by farmers. In the future, Hengfang will use a new generation of information technology such as agricultural Internet of Things and artificial intelligence to further realize scientific and efficient breeding.
Hengfang Agriculture also designs a circular agricultural production model that combines "seed-breeding", adheres to the integrated development of production, education and research, and has outstanding performance in goose breeding research and development institutions, smart agriculture, biotechnology, farmer training, school-enterprise cooperation and so on. At the same time, the company is committed to the purpose of "excellent breeding", providing farmers with high-quality goose seedlings, and reaching cooperation in the way of "company + base + farmer", leading rural wealth and promoting rural revitalization.
As a new type of agricultural enterprise in the breeding base of goose breeding, Hengfang strives to provide customers with green and healthy high-quality products, while breaking the single phenomenon of goose products, promoting the development and utilization of germplasm resources, and at the same time making breakthroughs in the deep processing of goose meat, opening up the upstream and downstream industrial chains, and producing the "Hengfang" brand goose meat products that are popular with consumers, from breeding goose cultivation to table goose meat products, to achieve the integration of the "production, supply and marketing" industrial chain.
Walking on the road of breeding geese, the sky is blue and white, the green trees are clear, this is the rural revitalization dream of the "new farmers" after 95, every step is solid, and every step counts. Ma Yuhao and Zheng Zhiwen looked at the wandering lion-headed goose and said briskly, "If the heart is a fence, everywhere is a fence, when there is a firm belief in the heart, everywhere is our sea of stars." ”
【Writing】Kang Yunyi
[Correspondent] Chen Genghong
【Image】Courtesy of the interviewee
【Author】 Kang Yunyi
【Source】 Southern Press Media Group South + client
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