Chapter 1344

Although the town's affairs had been busy and chaotic these past few days, Su Xinghui still squeezed out some time to go through the remaining few villages in the town. This was his work style; he would never only listen to his subordinates' reports. There were some things he had to go to the scene to see with his own eyes.

The current situation of Matou Town was not optimistic. The common people in most villages were very poor, which caused a relatively serious loss of labor in the villages. Many young and middle-aged men and women went outside to work, which made left-behind children and left-behind elderly people everywhere in the villages. But fortunately, it was almost New Year, and most people who went out to work had to come back. Su Xinghui asked village cadres to do work for these people when the time came, letting them stay and make contributions to the development of their hometown.

The only point in Matou Town that made Su Xinghui feel relatively gratified was that the current inventory of Matou goats was still good. Almost every household had a few Matou goats. What needed to be done next was to expand the breeding scale under the guidance of experts from Jiangcheng Agricultural University.

The main means to increase the reproduction rate of Matou goats was to use special methods for artificial insemination, and to add some special additives to the feed of the male breeding goats, which could increase the sperm vitality of the male goats and increase the conception rate and lambing number of the female goats.

Matou goats reach sexual maturity early, and female goats can conceive and produce in seven or eight months. Using this artificial insemination method, it was believed that the number of Matou goats in Matou Town would have an explosive growth in the near future.

The test reports of the soil samples taken by Luo Ping and Huang Chuanyong also came out. According to the actual situation of the local soil, they recommended several suitable forage grasses for Matou Town, such as alfalfa, etc. These forage grasses had strong drought and disease resistance, strong vitality, vigorous growth, and developed root systems, which could well fix water and soil, and could regenerate rapidly after grazing, trampling, and mowing.

The nutritional value of these forage grasses was also very high. The main nutritional components were crude protein, vitamins, mineral elements, carbohydrates, and they were also rich in cellulose, which was good for improving the gastrointestinal tract of livestock. Their palatability was also very good, and livestock such as cattle and sheep loved to eat them, and they gained weight and fattened relatively quickly after eating them. They were very good forage grass varieties.

And these forage grasses, except for the severe winter when the temperature was below zero, could be sown all year round. That is to say, they could grow all year round, providing grazing and mowing. This point was very important. That is to say, the cattle and sheep raised here had enough feed provided all year round, and they wouldn't lose weight even in winter.

Rao Songnian also suggested that Matou Town should raise cattle and sheep by shed feeding, that is, building cattle sheds and sheep sheds for pen feeding, instead of free-range grazing. In this way, livestock in the sheds were not easy to freeze to death, and it was convenient to vaccinate and manage, and fatten faster, etc. Under the improvement of large-scale mechanized tools and high-quality forage grass, forage grass pastures could produce more feed, and the overall income would be higher.