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According to Dahua statistics, the number of white-feathered chickens raised per year is 150 million. This is a relatively accurate number because it is a large-scale breeding operation and is easy to count.

However, there is no way to count the number of native chickens raised, so we can only make an estimate.

In rural areas, most families raise more than a dozen native chickens.

This amount is the most cost-effective for them.

If you raise too few, you will waste energy and time, and you won’t be able to sell them for much.

If you raise too many, you have to feed them all with grain. There are not so many earthworms and small bugs for them to eat in the fields and mountains.

Feeding them all with grain is too expensive and not cost-effective.

Although each family does not raise many, the advantage is raising more people.

The average family raises ten animals. Assuming that half of rural families can raise them, there will be more than 200 million animals.

The Dahua Statistics Bureau estimates that Dahua produced a total of 400 million chickens in the 17th year of Yongxing.

On average, a person seems to eat less than half a year.

However, these chickens are actually supplied to economically developed areas.

For big cities like Nanjing and Shanghai, there are at least three or four chickens per capita every year.

For rural areas overseas, most people don't eat chicken once a year, and only eat one or two eggs occasionally. The difference is still huge.

The number of chickens raised per year is 400 million, which is far from enough for the huge Dahua.

In order to allow more Chinese people to eat meat, the Dahua court has recently encouraged the development of the breeding industry.

The most direct way is to increase the purchase price of chickens, ducks and pigs and set a minimum purchase price.

If a businessman deliberately lowers the price, the government will step in to purchase it to ensure that the farmers will not lose money.

If not done in this way, farmers will lack enthusiasm and dare not take risks.

After all, most farmers have no sales channels.

When pigs are raised to a certain level, they must be slaughtered, otherwise they will lose money.

The chickens, ducks or pigs raised on a large scale need to be sold to big cities, which cannot be digested by rural areas.

If a buyer tries to lower the price, farmers will have almost no way to compete.

In a market economy, capital has too great an advantage.

Without government intervention, ordinary people would just become the targets of exploitation.

With the government's guarantee of the lowest purchase price, farmers can raise their crops with confidence, since the government will take care of everything.

Nowadays, almost every household in Dahua’s rural areas raises two pigs.

Why are there two ends? This is also important.

It is difficult to raise a pig alone, and it cannot be raised to a large size. When the two ends are put together, they will compete for food. Eat more and grow faster.

There are too many and farmers don’t have much time to take care of them.

For both ends, feed them some grain at ordinary times and pull some pigweed when you are free. This way you can make the most of your free time and save breeding costs.

It would not be cost-effective if all crops were raised using grain.

In addition to setting a minimum purchase price, Dahua’s technology department has also developed various feeds.

Although the meat of chickens, ducks and livestock raised on feed is not as delicious as that raised on grain, the difference is actually very subtle.

Only those in later generations who are tired of eating meat will be able to notice it, and in the current Dahua, there is no such thing as saying that feed pigs are not delicious.

Whether they are domesticated pigs or pigs raised on feed, in the eyes of ordinary people today, they are all equally delicious.

Compared with grain, the cost of breeding with feed is much lower.

At the same time, the feed industry facilitates transportation and storage.

For those large-scale farmers, feed is already a must.

Relying on feed, Dahua's breeding industry is also developing rapidly.

A piece of data was published in the newspaper on February 18th, the 18th year of Yongxing.

A private survey and statistics agency conducted a study that proved that in the 18th year of Yongxing, the average height of the Chinese people increased by eight centimeters compared with the Ming Dynasty.

Through this data, the agency proved that the current nutritional level of Dahua is several times better than that of the Ming Dynasty, and the national physique has been greatly improved.

In fact, this data is nonsense.

Their current survey samples are basically concentrated in big cities like Nanjing and Shanghai, and the data are not representative.

Moreover, due to funding reasons, the data they sampled is also limited.

What's even worse is that short people generally don't like to expose their height. Most of those who are willing to be measured are tall people who are satisfied with their figures.

Sampling survey is a very technical matter, and Dahua's private institutions are not yet at such a high level.

Moreover, even if their current data can be very accurate, they cannot know the average height of people during the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, there would be no idle institutions to conduct such investigations.

Therefore, the figure that the average height per capita has increased by eight centimeters compared to the Ming Dynasty is purely a rough guess by the agency.

However, most people believed this data without hesitation.

This is actually normal. In the Internet era, the difficulty of obtaining information has been reduced countless times, and not many people will question the data given by some 'professional institutions'.

Countless keyboard warriors used those data to talk nonsense, scold Fang Qiu, and point the country...

As long as the data given are not too outrageous and just in line with the readers' preferences, no one will

Go find out.

What’s more, in this era where it’s extremely difficult to obtain information.

As ordinary people, they can only choose to believe in authority.

Dahua Daily represents authority. Information that can be published in Dahua Daily is generally infallible. After all, articles in Dahua Daily are strictly supervised and screened by the government.

In fact, when Ye Nan, the government's news review officer, saw this report, he knew that the data was unreliable.

However, the release of this data does no harm to the Dahua court. It can at least increase the people's confidence, pride, and satisfaction with the Dahua government.

Anyone who has read this article will think so. Life in Dahua is better. You don’t have to worry about food and clothing, and you can even grow taller.

With this kind of thinking, you can be more tolerant of some problems in life, and then hope that things will get better in the future.

It still has certain positive significance for maintaining social stability.

Moreover, their idea is actually correct. The agency's report can only say that the data is not accurate enough, but it cannot be said that they are talking nonsense.

Overall, Dahua's average height must have increased compared to the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, this is especially obvious in big cities.

Rich meat and diverse ingredients.

When the concept of nutrition was proposed, the recipes of rich people also changed a lot.

Milk also appeared during this period and became a must-have drink for wealthy people.