IoT intelligence creates miracles-only one person is needed to raise 10,000 pigs a year
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Pig raising is hard and dirty. Feeding, manure cleaning, disease prevention and epidemic prevention are all sloppy. Ordinary farmers use traditional methods to raise pigs. A couple does not hire workers, and they produce 1,000 to 2,000 pigs a year. They are already very busy. Changzhou Fenghua Animal Husbandry Co., Ltd., a demonstration enterprise that can apply the Internet of Things to implement intelligent breeding in our province, can raise 10,000 pigs per year easily. How did this happen? On October 26, the reporter went to find out.
In Fenghua Animal Husbandry Co., Ltd. in Jiaze Town, Wujin District, through the surveillance video big screen, the reporter saw that there were only a group of pigs in the pig farm and no people could be seen. After a few shots, they found an employee in a white coat. What is being observed and recorded. Fenghua Animal Husbandry General Manager Assistant Lu Xiangyang said that the company has introduced a complete set of automation equipment and technologies from the United States, using core technologies such as smart sensor networks, RFID recognition, ZigBee wireless communication and animal physiological parameter monitoring, including intelligent feeding of large groups of sows. Feeding system, automatic sow estrus monitoring and identification system, automatic breeding pig determination system and automatic environmental control system, so that many aspects of production and management are automated.
Breeding sows is much more difficult than commercial pigs, and the intelligent feeding system for large groups of sows is one of the most technologically advanced technologies. According to Lu Xiangyang, the trained sows line up from the fence channel to the feeding station to eat. At this time, the induction system will automatically scan the ear tags of each pig. After reading the information, prepare them according to the different conditions of each pig. Feeds of different formulas and weights are automatically put in, only 50 grams each time, and then put in after eating, to prevent waste, even if you want to eat more, you can’t eat it. One pig left after eating, and it was the next pig’s turn to eat the food. If a pig leaves before eating the set amount, the sensing system finds this abnormal situation, it will open a special channel for the pig to pass through and mark it. When the employee sees it, he will judge it according to the mark prompt. If you are sick, expecting childbirth or other conditions, promptly treat the symptoms.
Before the introduction of this intelligent system, the condition of sows could only be observed manually. A large group of sows walks back and forth, it is difficult to observe and judge and distinguish them. The sows can only be kept in isolation pens and raised individually, but this way the sows have no room for movement, which is not conducive to healthy growth.
The automatic monitoring and identification system for sows’ heat is also magical. There is a place next to the sow pen house near the boar pen. The sow entering the estrus period will sniff the arch and wander around. The sensor above will automatically record the number of times the sow has been to this position and the length of stay to judge the female. Whether the pig is in heat, send its ear tag to the breeder’s mobile app, and arrange breeding with the boar accordingly. It turns out that whether a sow is in heat can only be observed and judged by an experienced breeder, which is prone to errors. Once the estrus period of the sow is missed, it will take 20 days to enter the next estrus period. 20 days of feed are eaten in vain, which not only increases the feed cost of 400 yuan, but also reduces the frequency of littering of the sow, which determines the efficiency of the pig farm. One of the key indicators. The sows raised by ordinary farmers have an average annual litter size of 2 to 2.1 litters. With this intelligent system, the company’s sows have an average litter size of 2.3 litters per year.
For the piglets born by the sow, the automatic breeding pig measurement system will measure, record and analyze the daily feed and weight gain data, and select the pigs with good physical fitness and fast growth as breeding pigs, and the rest as ordinary piglets Or commercial pig raising.
The automatic environment control system and automatic manure removal system have functions such as automatic adjustment and control of temperature, humidity, automatic deodorization, and automatic cleaning of manure, reflecting the company’s adherence to the philosophy of animal welfare, so that pigs are always in a clean and comfortable environment, with less disease and growth. quick.
The existing farm of Fenghua Animal Husbandry Company was built on the basis of the old farm, and the new farm was completed and put into operation in 2012. Wang Yunsong, the head of the production department of the farm, is an old employee and has a deep understanding of the benefits of smart pig raising. He said that in the past, pig raising was dirty and tiring. Now, except for injections, all work is intelligent and automated. The front-line employees have no physical work at all, and they do all management work. The main task is to observe whether various facilities are operating normally. You don’t need to worry about the growth of the pigs, you only need to deal with special individuals such as abnormal eating, sickness, and estrus sows found in the system monitoring.
The biggest benefit of intelligent pig raising is to save a lot of labor and reduce labor costs. The company’s original farm requires 16 front-line employees for every 10,000 commercial pigs produced, but now it only has one person. The breeding base currently has 4,000 sows in stock, with a total of 90,000 breeding pigs, seedlings, and commercial meat pigs. This alone can save millions of yuan in labor costs. In addition, the use of intelligent systems can reduce the cost of production materials by more than 800,000 yuan per year. At the same time, intelligent breeding of large groups of sows can reduce the occurrence of epidemics, increase sow littering rate and pig survival rate, and increase economic benefits by 500 throughout the year. More than ten thousand yuan.
Huang Xiaoguo, chairman of Fenghua Animal Husbandry Co., said that the difficulty in employing labor is a major problem in the pig industry. Now it is difficult to recruit people with a salary of 5,000 yuan and payment of pension insurance. The new plant with the introduction of intelligent systems has been built and put into operation for several years. Various equipment has gradually been localized, and the production efficiency has been continuously improved, reaching the domestic lead and catching up with the level of developed countries. It is not magical that an employee breeds 10,000 commercial pigs a year. According to the company’s current management level, there is actually no need for so many front-line employees, and there is potential for improving labor productivity.
Song Xiaochun, director of the Animal Husbandry Department of the Provincial Agriculture Committee, said that Fenghua Animal Husbandry is a provincial-level key leading enterprise in agricultural industrialization and a model of “Internet +” modern agriculture in our province. They use the Internet of Things to develop intelligent pig raising and save a lot of labor costs. Through automatic temperature control, automatic feeding, automatic monitoring of estrus and sickness, etc., they can achieve precise management and increase the farrowing rate. Pigs get less sick and grow faster. Smart pig raising liberates employees from dirty and tiring work, is conducive to solving labor difficulties, is conducive to reducing costs and increasing efficiency, and represents the direction of animal husbandry development. This practice is worthy of promotion throughout the province.
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