In mid-August, the Jiagu headquarters welcomed a group of members of the research group of the central ministries and commissions.

The research group is led by the Ministry of Agriculture and the Deputy Department, mainly doing non-plague prevention and control and pig supply guarantee.

Judging from the overall situation, the prevention and control of non-plague is still not optimistic. The latest news is that the African swine fever epidemic is spreading in the central and southwestern regions. In this pattern, despite the country's policy encouragement and support for pig filling, there are still only a handful of pig farms that have expanded against the trend.

It stands to reason that affected by this, pig prices should continue to stand in the wind and soar.

However, experts have judged that at least in the short term, pig prices will remain high and stable.

——The production capacity released by Jiagu agriculture and animal husbandry has stunned the market. Not only that, but the energy released by Jiagu caused a great shock within the Ministry of Agriculture.

There are more pigs in the market, and the price of pork remains stable to slowly decline, which is good for people's livelihood. However, the Ministry of Agriculture should consider the problem from a longer-term perspective: "stability" is the goal of the benign development of the economic order of the pig market, but how long can the strength of Jiagu agriculture and animal husbandry be "stable" in a reasonable range of pig prices?

To put it more bluntly, can the output rate of Jiagu agriculture and animal husbandry keep up with the speed of reduction caused by non-plague?

This will even affect the policy of resumption of pig production, if it were not for the non-plague situation, all large pig farms are refused to outsiders to enter, the research team is afraid that it would have been rushed to the Jiagu pig farm to evaluate the value of the Jiagu pig system.

However, it is not possible to enter the pig farm, and it is not without tools to aid judgment. No, they came to the Jiagu headquarters.

Under the leadership of Qi Zheng and the members of the board of directors, the research team was shocked as soon as it entered the data center of Jiagu Agriculture and Animal Husbandry in the headquarters.

——Similar to the layout of the aerospace command center, surrounded by three huge data visualization screens, in front of which are rows of work stations. After processing, the massive big data is displayed on the large screen in a visual style, which makes people feel cool and shocking visually.

Yu Deputy Ministry, who took the lead, raised his head slightly, and after slowly sweeping the data center, he turned his head to Zhengdao: "No wonder Director Zhang of the Planting Industry Department said that he could see the future of agriculture in Jiagu after returning from his inspection in Henan Province, which is not an exaggeration. ”

As the "rich and handsome" in the IT industry, the application of the large data visualization screen has made many enterprises eager to try - to display big data in an intelligent way, which improves work efficiency and helps enterprises make business decisions. However, because of the difficulty and high cost of customized development, large companies that are not very powerful have no way to get started.

Regardless of whether it is practical or not, it visually amazed the members of the research group, and a younger member asked a little excitedly: "Dong Qi, Jiagu has found a way to use digital technology dividends to bless agriculture and animal husbandry?"

As soon as these words came out, Yu Deputy Department also turned his head curiously.

This question seems to be more interesting than the pig production capacity of Jiagu agriculture and animal husbandry itself.

Eating, as a unique life behavior, maintains the daily activities of life, and how to eat well, eat well, and eat healthy is an eternal topic for all mankind.

The Ministry of Agriculture is largely dealing with the issue of "eating". For example, whether the quality of agricultural products and agricultural production models meet sustainable standards, whether the food supply chain is sustainable, and whether it can provide healthy and high-quality meat protein to the people under the challenge of the epidemic, these are the key points of discussion between the departments and the whole department.

In a word, how to efficiently produce high-quality food with a modern model has become a new topic in the new era.

Qi Zheng just smiled and said: "I dare not say that we have found the right path, we can only say that we are exploring the use of digital concepts and tools, combining front-end production capacity and management effects, and driving the continuous optimization of the entire industry ecology with our own development." ”

"Can you elaborate on that?" said Deputy Yu with a smile.

"No problem. Qi Zheng nodded without thinking about it.

"Take, for example, our digital system for pig farming. Qi Zheng paused for a moment and said with a smile: "I know that everyone on this trip is most concerned about the pork production capacity of Jiagu agriculture and animal husbandry. ”

There was a low laugh from the crowd.

"Productivity is judged by two factors – how many pigs there are and how fast they can grow. The number of pigs is easy to count, but it is not easy to see how fast or slow they are growing at a glance. Well, now it's hard to get approval even if I want to see for myself how the second senior brothers look. Qi Zheng half-jokingly.

The crowd laughed again.

Qi Zheng smiled lightly and said: "However, whether the pig grows fast or slow, excluding the factors of the breed, in fact, only three conditions are required: fine management in place, suitable environmental conditions, and a balanced and easily digestible nutrition program." ”

"So, can we see this here?" said Deputy Yu curiously.

Qi Zheng spread out his hands and said, "That's right. ”

"Well, the fine management will not be shown, when the media reported on the Jiagu pig farm, I like to grasp this point the most, and I want to understand it. ”

Everyone nodded with a smile.

The so-called "fine management" is more reflected in the details - a small hole in the window may penetrate into the thief wind, causing a pig to catch a cold, and then secondary infection with respiratory diseases, causing the outbreak of the whole herd; there is a piece of moldy feed in the feeding trough that has not been cleaned for a long time, which may lead to diarrhea of a pig, and may also cause the whole herd infection; if the needle is not changed during treatment, it may cause cross-infection between pigs and pigs, resulting in mixed infection...... These details, in the relevant reports of Jiagu pig farm, are often used as counterexamples to prove that Jiagu has fine management of agriculture and animal husbandry in place.

Thanks to the non-plague, the first stable production of the Jiagu pig farm has been "liked" again, the most talked about is its details in place.

Qi Zheng nodded slightly and continued: "In terms of suitable environmental conditions, the most important ones are temperature, humidity, air quality and health conditions......

Qi Zheng waved his hand, and a large visual screen "jumped out" of the environmental monitoring interface of the Jiagu pig farm.

Qi Zheng explained: "The environmental conditions are the most digitized in the system. Because the collection basis of environmental data is the best, the sensors used in Jiagu pig farms include air temperature and humidity sensors, ammonia concentration sensors, hydrogen sulfide sensors, carbon dioxide sensors, etc., which are used to detect conventional environmental parameters. Then, the integrated control box will store, summarize, classify and automatically forward the data to the headquarters data center, and the system software will process the data......"

"As you can see, the data center can monitor all Jiagu pig farms synchronously to create the most comfortable living environment for each pig. We often talk about animal welfare, but what is animal welfare? It's not that playing music is animal welfare, but creating a comfortable environment is the foundation of animal welfare. ”

With the demonstration of the technicians, the dynamic feedback of pig farms is displayed on the large screen: the temperature of a pig farm is not very suitable, which may affect the feed intake of pigs, and it is recommended to adjust; the humidity of a pig farm is slightly exceeded, because it is raining locally, and the problem is not big; the oxygen detection of a pig farm is insufficient, which may increase the burden on respiratory organs, reduce the resistance of respiratory organs, and increase the possibility of respiratory diseases, so it is recommended to adjust the air quality...... The members of the research group were stunned.

As Qi Zheng said, the big data support provided by the system to create a more comfortable environment for Jiagu pig farm has a high degree of completion.

The members of the research group asked various points from time to time, from data collection to data processing, even if it is beyond the scope of pig raising, Jiagu can answer without hesitation, which fully shows the depth of Jiagu's research on the breeding industry.

Seeing that the topic was far away, Deputy Minister Yu had to cough lightly and said, "Let's talk about Jiagu's nutrition plan, let's see what other surprises there are." ”

At this time, there is no need for Qi Zheng to signal, and the technician takes the initiative to cut into the relevant interface on another large screen.

The visualization of the nutrition program is different.

Customized nutrition programs require the health and nutritional status of the animals, but the conventional environmental parameters are easy to detect, and the data of the animals is difficult to measure.

As a "living creature", or even an evolving "living creature", data collection is quite difficult. The ideal solution is to wear a chip for each pig, so that the growth status of each pig can be converted into data to help breeders monitor pig behavior, heartbeat, body temperature and other indicators in real time.

But even in Jiagu pig farm, the "identity chip" has not yet been popularized in the sow herd, let alone equipped with every pig.

Therefore, most of the growth data of pigs displayed on the big screen only have weight and fat monitoring, and the other is real-time material inventory and other monitoring statistics.

What really surprised everyone was that sweet potatoes, pastures, and Chinese herbs were among the nutritional materials, and in terms of proportion, there were quite a few portions.

More than one person had the same question, and a member of the research group took the lead in asking: "I thought that only Jiagu native pigs were raised like this?"

Qi Zheng shook his head: "Of course not." Pigs are omnivores and a single diet can lead to nutritional imbalances. Most pig farmers only care about pig food protein, but too much, in the process of pig breeding, too much undigested protein will promote E. coli and other pathogenic bacteria to multiply in the intestinal tract of pigs, or ferment to produce ammonia, amines and other harmful substances, polluting the environment. Poor environmental conditions can further affect the health of pigs. ”

"For this purpose, we have specially cultivated sweet potato varieties and forage varieties that taste good and are loved by pigs. As you can see, the vermilion potato, which is rich in nutrients such as starch, sugar and carotene, as well as the royal bamboo grass, which is rich in vitamins and trace elements, has a faint wine flavor after fermentation, which is more popular with pigs than concentrate feed. ”

It must be admitted that although it is troublesome to raise in this way (the cost is not high, and even because the scale effect is reduced), effective and balanced nutrition makes the digestibility of food higher, and pigs can really grow faster!

Finally, the most conspicuous data on the big screen is the daily weight gain from weaning to slaughter - the data shows that the daily weight gain is more than 900g!

"900 g? without the addition of any antibiotic growth promoters, almost 1 kilogram per day?" someone repeated.

More than one person showed a stunned expression, even the deputy department was surprised.

In a trance, he had the feeling of looking at world-class data.

He also pinched his fingers and calculated that 1 kilogram per day, 10 million pigs, and 300,000 tons of meat per month...... So the question is, how many pigs are in the fattening of Jiagu Agriculture and Animal Husbandry? 20 million? It seems that it is more than that.

Hiss...... What is productivity? This is called productivity.

Judging a pig's contribution is ultimately not judging its "meat-making ability"?

With such a growth rate, even if the meat yield and feed-to-meat ratio are average, the pig production capacity of Jiagu agriculture and animal husbandry can also win the first place, not to mention that the key indicators of the people are above the average level.

No one suspected that Kaya was exaggerating because it was unnecessary.

Yu Yu carefully looked at the detailed daily weight gain curve of pigs at each stage on the visualization screen, as well as the best slaughter time of the major pig farms, as well as the PSY (annual breakage of a sow), MSY (the number of sows on the market per year), weaning-rearing mortality, feed-to-meat ratio, etc. - it is said that these are also the assessment indicators of pig farm employees, as long as they meet the standard, there will be dividends, and there will be more rewards if they exceed the standard.

Is Jiagu just showing them a digital system for pig farming? No, what Jiagu wants to show is the "culmination" of large-scale pig farming over the years.

There is no doubt that for a long time in the future, the main source of animal protein for the Chinese people will still be pork - for cattle, sheep and pigs, the pig bones are small, the feed to meat ratio is low, and omnivorous, which means that pork is the cheapest if only the direct cost is calculated; although the feed to meat ratio of chickens and ducks is lower, the fat content (or calories) is also low, and the cost performance is second; fishing is not as stable as feeding, and it is constrained by geographical location, so it has advantages under specific conditions......

Coupled with factors such as population density and eating habits in China, the phrase "pig food security in the world" will not be outdated for a long time.

Yu Deputy Department suddenly understood, no wonder many people in the ministry and commission respected Jiagu's industrial chain system.

Non-plague is a hurdle for the domestic pig industry. However, even without this hurdle, Jiagu Agriculture and Animal Husbandry has not relaxed its attention to the safety and health of the pork supply chain, nor has it relaxed its research on accurately meeting the balanced nutritional ratio required by animal breeding, nor has it relaxed its exploration of reducing the negative impact on the environment in the process of animal breeding......

Insiders may not realize that they think that Jiagu agriculture and animal husbandry are gambling on the market, and they are more or less floating; but the fact is that people have only raised their professional level to a certain level, and the "risk prevention and control" of non-plague is just an additional question in the big exam, and it may not be the most difficult of them.

The high-speed expansion in the non-plague is like a high-speed car, if there is no smooth road, no high-quality gasoline, no regular maintenance to ensure its operation, and no good driver, it is only a matter of time before something goes wrong.

The problem is that Jiagu Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, a high-speed car, has neither "maintenance" nor "old drivers", and it is estimated that it will be a matter of time before the king becomes the hegemon.

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