After hearing Luo Chong's standards for breeding beef cattle, everyone felt they made perfect sense. Several Ministry of Agriculture officials present immediately took out paper and brushes to make notes. Only after they had nearly finished did Luo Chong continue.
"At the beginning, sheep will be the main livestock raised. The scale can be somewhat larger. As for the exact number, you'll have to calculate it based on the amount of corn stalks produced by twenty thousand mu of land.
"As for beef cattle, you don't need to raise too many at first. First improve the breed, then worry about the rest. Raising one or two hundred should be about enough. After that, there are pigs.
"This Comprehensive Breeding Farm must have pigs. The number must not be fewer than five hundred. They'll mainly be used for experiments. When the time comes, your Ministry of Agriculture must cooperate with the Medical College of Xuefu County in Ruyang Commandery. Your main research will be how to increase pork yields, make pigs grow faster, improve the quality of the meat, and develop sterilization techniques.
"The Medical College will lead the development of this technique. Your Ministry of Agriculture must also send people to participate and learn. Once the technique matures, you'll need to organize a group of people specifically to study it, then dispatch them to the animal husbandry bureaus of the various commanderies and counties under the Han Tribe, so they can provide livestock sterilization services to the local people."
Sterilize pigs?!
Sterilized pigs grew faster? Had more meat? And tasted better?!!!
Everyone listened with blank expressions. It was the first time they had ever heard such a claim, and they had no idea whom the Chieftain had heard it from.
"Chieftain, is this... really true? What exactly is sterilization? And