When I officially stepped into the largest pig breeding farm in China, I saw a few green electric sightseeing cars and a few people waiting behind the door.

After all, in a large base covering an area of 10,000 acres, if you wander around with your feet, you may not be able to reach your destination for an hour.

"Dong Qi, Mr. Li, welcome to come and investigate. Fu Dawei, deputy chief engineer of Jiagu pig breeding project, greeted.

Of course, the chief engineer of the Jiagu pig breeding project is Chen Jianzhang, but because he also has to take care of the management of the Jiagu laboratory, the deputy chief engineer is the resident breeding farm, and at this time he became a guide.

"Thank you for your hard work, I came here more to see if you have any difficulties. Qi Zheng patted him on the shoulder and said.

The pig breeding team headed by Fu Dawei is the best treated group of people in Jiagu agriculture and animal husbandry.

It is such a group of people, after the non-plague attack, automatically and consciously reduced the frequency of going out to the minimum, and basically achieved the ultimate in "living in a deep and simple place".

In order to reduce the threat of non-plague viruses as much as possible.

To put it mildly, the non-plague virus has no legs, cut off its transmission route, and build a "wall", this virus can't be overcome, and it can't look at the pigs inside. What's more, the location of this breeding pig farm is very safe, surrounded by mountains on three sides, no, except for a road, it can almost be called surrounded by mountains on all sides, which is very convenient for disease prevention and control.

But as people who have more contact with the precious breeding pigs, they are more demanding of themselves.

Although the living facilities in the breeding farm are very perfect, being "trapped" in a base for a long time always lacks a little freedom.

This is not a mandatory requirement of the company and the laboratory, but the result of the spontaneous breeding team, which is very rare. What supports them to pay so much is not a generous treatment, but more of a love for breeding work.

As mentioned earlier, breeding is the process of repeating the process of making offspring perform better than their parents.

It seems very simple, isn't it enough to choose an individual with better performance than his parents? However, if it is really that simple, Jia Gu still needs to hire a bunch of masters and doctors to do this work? Qi Zheng has a lot of money and has no place to spend it?

Even if you have not studied biology, you know that the inheritance of traits is not 100% passed from parents to children, so what percentage of genetic information can an excellent individual inherit to offspring? How to selectively influence or control this process? This requires all kinds of data support.

Most of the time, Voëvid's job is to collect all kinds of basic data in the farm, some of which are intuitive and can be collected directly, and some of which require them to repeatedly measure (growth rate?). meat performance, etc.). This is the boring part, but also the most important part, not backed up by accurate underlying data? Breeding is a tree without roots.

For example, the world's largest pig breeding company, PIC, has the world's largest pig breeding database, and its greatest wealth is the world's largest pig breeding database? Including pedigree information for more than 20 million pigs, the complete pedigree of 27 generations? Performance measurement records of more than 9 million pigs? As many as 45 traits involved, and more than 200 molecular markers for routine applications? There are also a large number of candidate molecular markers in the testing and testing process......

Only enough data has been collected? They can be "matchmakers" – do a genetic assessment to select which pigs are eligible to be kept as breeding pigs? and deciding which boar the sow can mate with in order to achieve the goal of "one generation stronger than the next".

Anyone who comes out to work knows that there are two kinds of jobs in society that everyone doesn't like to do, one is that you need to collect a lot of accurate data? The other is long-lasting, and breeding efforts combine these two traits. So? Now we know why pig breeding is the most backward part of the domestic pig industry, right?

It is no wonder that in the eyes of a certain hanger, Fu Dawei's work is the foundation for stabilizing the lower limit;

Fu Dawei smiled after listening to Qi Zheng's words.

Although the study of dogs is actually like this? It's not unusual to be "isolated" during retreat, but it's better for the big boss to be able to see it than not to see it.

At the very least, when fighting for funds and welfare, you can be more reasonable, isn't it? Don't you see that Chen Jianzhang, the boss of the research team, is flickering in his eyes? Maybe he is playing the idea of "grabbing" welfare again.

Fu Dawei did not forget to introduce the strangers around him: "This is Wang Bingwen, chairman of the Pig Branch of the National Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Association, who is also an expert of the National Pig Joint Breeding Cooperative Group and one of the initiators of joint breeding......

Qi Zheng took the initiative to stretch out his hand: "Thank you for coming to guide the work." ”

Wang Bingwen shook hands with Qi Zheng, shook his head and said, "I really don't dare to say that I am a guide, I just have an attitude of learning, and I want to thank Jiagu for the opportunity provided." ”

The so-called "joint breeding" is to carry out a unified and standardized production performance measurement and joint (cross-field) genetic evaluation within a certain range (regional, provincial, national), and share excellent genetic resources (breeding stock).

To put it bluntly, it is to let everyone unite to produce good breeding pigs, expand the size of breeding groups, and make full use of excellent genetic resources.

To this end, on the basis of the original Landrace pig, large white pig and Duroc pig three breed cooperation groups, the national pig joint breeding cooperation group has been integrated and established, and it has been almost ten years.

"Unfortunately, for so many years, joint breeding has not been successful. After greeting and getting on the sightseeing bus, Wang Bingwen and Qi Zheng sat in the same row, and said without hesitation.

Although he was one of the initiators of joint breeding, he made no secret of his lack of optimism about joint breeding.

Qi Zheng and Li Dongliang in the front row glanced at each other, and their eyes were full of understanding.

The idea of national joint breeding is very good: the core breeding farms of various pig farms in the country are united, so the effect of one in a thousand is definitely better than the effect of one in a thousand or one in a hundred, and the overall production performance is improved very quickly - the country has nearly 50 national and provincial local protected breeds, in addition to the introduction of lean pig breeds from abroad, a lot of hybrid lines have been cultivated in various places for decades. Such abundant genetic resources have laid a good foundation for China's breeding work. Theoretically, as long as the market needs what kind of breeding pigs, we should be able to breed what kind of breeding pigs.

However, there is a big loophole in this - it assumes that all participants work under the same rules, all tools, standards are unified, and all actions are uniform.

The fact is that it is difficult to reach an agreement on the breeding goals and directions of different participants, such a large region as China, the market demand is different, the business model of enterprises is not the same, and the competition between them is extremely fierce, so how can the breeding goals be the same?

Not to mention anything else, Jiagu agriculture and animal husbandry were originally also heavyweight "players" in joint breeding, but in addition to the full genetic exchange between Jiagu breeding farms, the genetic relationship between other breeding farms cannot be established at all. Everyone has a competitive relationship of interests, who wants to take out the best? Even if they are willing to take out, the data provided by these companies may not be accurate.

Of course, another result of this is that the Jiagu breeding work is "unbeatable" in the national pig breeding work.

Wang Bingwen was deeply touched by this.

When the National Pig Joint Breeding Cooperative Group was first established, Jiagu Agriculture and Animal Husbandry was only an inconspicuous breeding enterprise, and it was even reluctant to obtain the qualification to participate in joint breeding.

However, nearly ten years have passed, the national pig breeding system with joint breeding as the main form is still at the theoretical level, and the "self-starting" Jiagu pig breeding system has made great strides, because there are large deviations in the environment, level, operation system, etc., and joint breeding has become a laggard.

The African swine fever epidemic is undoubtedly a baptism for China's pig industry, and at the same time, it also reveals the gap between the Jiagu pig breeding system and its domestic counterparts.

From a horizontal point of view, "nutrition", "biosecurity" and "breeding technology" are the troika of pig breeding, among which nutrition technology is the easiest to solve, and it is also easy to "take it" - the earliest direction of the development of the domestic pig industry is feed, because feed industrialization is the easiest, such as New Hope, Dabeinong is one of the representative enterprises.

At this point, the gap shouldn't be too big. At least the pig feed formula of the Jiagu pig system is not necessarily more advantageous than that on the market.

After the outbreak of non-plague, biosecurity has become an urgent issue for the pig industry, that is, to overcome the impact of diseases such as African swine fever.

In this regard, the gap is immediately apparent – the domestic pig industry has relied too heavily on vaccines and has not paid attention to biosecurity. When there is no vaccine available for a new outbreak, especially when it is necessary to establish multiple barriers to isolate and prevent it, people are in a hurry and panic. The Jiagu pig breeding system focuses a large part of its efforts on the evolution and control of the epidemic in veterinary epidemic prevention, rather than relying on vaccination, so that people can stabilize it as soon as possible.

If it weren't for the non-plague now, all the Jiagu pig farms would refuse to allow outsiders to enter, and the peers who applied to visit and study would have flocked to the market long ago.

Finally, there is the breeding technology with the highest scientific and technological content, which is not obvious yet, but in the middle and late stages of the epidemic, Wang Bingwen believes that the gap will be completely highlighted.

Whether it is breeding local pigs or imported pigs, it is necessary to avoid inbreeding, and fresh blood needs to be introduced to improve the genetic traits of the population. It's a biological common sense.

One way to introduce fresh blood is to breed locally, and the other is to import. However, the former has a long cycle, a lot of investment, and slow results, which is far less convenient than direct import.

At present, the only pig enterprises that can completely get rid of the dependence on imported pig breeds and implement their own independent breeding programs should be Jiagu Agriculture and Animal Husbandry and Wen's. The former is much stronger than the latter - the international popular Dan line, Canadian line, American line and other foreign pig breeds, but I have not heard of the "Chinese line", but in China, there is a "Jia line" pig breed name, which is enough to explain everything.

Therefore, Wang Bingwen is not humble, he really came with the heart of research and learning.

Qi Zheng was half-curious and half-joking: "Then did you find the secret of our Jiagu breeding?"

Unexpectedly, he really nodded: "A little discovered." ”

"Judging from the experience of Jiagu agriculture and animal husbandry and joint breeding, breeding work needs a relatively stable and large system support in order to make progress. Wang Bingwen paused and continued: "In addition, it makes no sense for a company that only raises a few hundred pigs to do breeding. Only after the industrialization and intensification of the pig industry can the economic benefits of the progress of breeding technology appear. Prior to this, most of the pig enterprises were staking their land, trying to increase their scale and production capacity. Therefore, we can't always complain that the industry introduces seeds from abroad and doesn't pay attention to breeding research. ”

"Jiagu agriculture and animal husbandry is also like this, although the layout of breeding began very early, but it is also after the scale is large, there is a boom in pig breeding, the reason is that the demand for breeding in the Jiagu system has completely risen. The super-large pig herd in Jiagu also provides huge resources for the selection of breeding pigs, including data resources, selection resources, etc......"

Wang Bingwen took a breath and concluded: "A foreign non-plague prevention and control expert I am familiar with said that in the final analysis, non-plague prevention and control is a matter of money. The same applies to breeding, which is like catching a train, constantly tapping into the potential of genes. If you keep selecting seeds, then as the train keeps moving forward, you can achieve quantitative to qualitative changes. Jiagu is willing to invest, and it is normal to be the first to 'explode'. ”

Qi Zheng and the others couldn't help laughing.

Wang Bingwen's words are a bit of a truth that "krypton can become stronger".

Although judging the process backwards from the result is like chicken soup for the soul of successful people, and it is always easy to ignore various variables, Qi Zheng still likes to hear about it.

The super-large-scale investment in breeding, in exchange for the acceleration of breeding, is more convincing than "in fact, I subtly changed the genes of Jiagu pigs by opening the hanging"!

Moreover, Kaya does invest a lot in breeding.

A huge herd, a huge research team, a huge core breeding farm...... Which one is less than a large amount of capital investment?

From an economic point of view alone, the breeding of Jiagu agriculture and animal husbandry must lose money.

However, the breeding work has an amplified effect on the commercial pig - basically more than 500 original breeding pigs can affect 1 million commercial pigs.

There is also a sense of security - the consistent urine of the Jiagu system, either you don't do it, or you can't let your throat be choked by others if you want to do it.

Qi Zheng smiled, turned to Chen Jianzhang and Fu Dawei and gave a thumbs up and said: "Not to mention anything else, President Wang's confidence in our pig breeding is enough to prove that the money I invested is well spent, and you 'matchmakers' have done a good job." ”

"Is there a bonus?" Chen Jianzhang smiled and "robbed while the fire was on."

Qi Zheng waved his hand and said boldly: "The price of pork this year is not expected to be low, well, I can send you a few more catties of pork." ”

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