Little pigeons build dreams of getting rid of poverty and becoming rich

Ding Junwu (left) is guiding Xu Guoxi (right) to raise pigeons

Early in the morning, Wuhan City Huangpi District Lijiaji Street ancient temple village, fog still lingering in the mountain, Qiaokou District precision poverty alleviation team Ding Junwu early came to the pigeon farm. Last year, he came to Shanggu Temple Village to carry out poverty alleviation work. Under his insistence, the abandoned primary school in the past has become a bright pigeon farm today. Now, a new batch of meat pigeons is about to come out of the cage, Shanggu Temple Village on the road out of poverty also has a new hope.

Look at the demand and focus on the pigeon market

Gusi Village, Lijiaji Street, Huangpi District, has always been a well-known poor village due to its remote location and inconvenient transportation. There are 178 households and 812 people in the village, including 22 poor households and 45 poor people. The land area of the village is nearly ten thousand mu, but most of them are hillside woodland, and the cultivated area is less than 10%. In order to make a living, most young people have gone out to work, leaving the village with "old, weak and sick".

How to lead the villagers to get rich from poverty, Ding Junwu, a newcomer, focused on raising pigeons. Pigeons grow fast, generally 25 to 28 days can be sold, meat than cost-effective. In addition, pigeons have strong disease resistance and obvious advantages. "More importantly, the labor intensity required to raise pigeons is not very high. Generally, it only takes more than an hour to feed them. The rest of the work is generally cleaning the pigeon cages, which is more suitable for the elderly poor households in the local area." Ding Junwu, who had breeding experience in the past, said he would do it and soon conducted research on the pigeon market.

Since Wuhan banned the sale of live poultry, pigeons have basically disappeared from the general vegetable market, and supermarkets are also rare. However, the meat pigeon market has huge demand. "I contacted Wuhan local catering enterprises, they all said, as long as the quality of meat pigeons pass, how much to charge." After some investigation, Ding Junwu was even more confident.

Soon, Ding Junwu found the ancient temple village "capable" Xu Guoxi, to him the benefits of raising pigeons. Xu Guoxi is a villager of the village. Because he has a little savings in contracting projects, he has been suffering from no opportunity to do something for the village. After listening to the introduction of pigeon breeding project, he is very interested. With the support of the precision poverty alleviation team and village committee, in May this year, Xu Guoxi personally invested nearly 200,000 yuan to build a pigeon farm.

Gold pigeons with wings for poverty alleviation

More than half a year later, today's pigeon farm has raised more than 300 pairs of white pigeons. Xu Guoxi calculated the detailed account,"a pair of pigeons generally hatch 10 to 20 squab a year, according to 12 to calculate, a squab market price of about 17 yuan, that is, a pair of pigeons breeding squab can sell more than 200 yuan a year." Now there are more than 300 pairs of pigeons in the pigeon farm, and the annual gross profit is more than 60,000 yuan. After deducting the feed cost of more than 20,000 yuan, the net profit is 40,000 yuan."

Only more than 300 pairs of pigeons can net so much money, Xu Guoxi decided to let go of his hands and feet, he decided to rebuild and upgrade the abandoned primary school, expand the breeding scale. "The expansion of the building site can support at least 1000 pairs, and with the standardized workshop on the playground, it can support at least 2000 pairs." Xu Guoxi counted his fingers and planned a new plan for next year.

Get rich do not forget the villagers, precision poverty alleviation team in helping Xu Guoxi at the same time, Xu Guoxi also patted his chest promised to solve the livelihood of four poor households, pigeon farm workers are local poor households. Wang Shaotang, who is in his 60s this year, has been living alone. He used to work outside. Now he is old and his legs are not so agile. He has to go home to farm. As soon as the pigeon farm was established, he came here. "Pigeon farming is good. It's in charge of food, housing, and wages. It's convenient to be close to home."

Xu Guoxi's pigeon farm has also received concern and support from all walks of life. This year alone, the government office of Qiaokou District donated more than 30,000 yuan. At the same time, it also contacted Qiaokou Branch of Wuhan Promotion Association of China Guangcai Cause and invested 20,000 yuan to purchase breeding pigeons. China United Insurance Qiaokou Branch Company, a counterpart poverty alleviation unit, also did not bother less. Ding Yong, the head of the company, went to the pigeon farm every two days. "I'll order 10,000 yuan for pigeons from the pigeon farm this year. I'll give you the money first, but you have to deliver it to me properly." Ding Junwu of the poverty alleviation team also helped Xu Guoxi contact the loan for pigeon farm expansion before and after running.

The order was given out before the pigeons came out of the cage. Xu Guoxi's pigeon farm has developed rapidly with the attention and support of all walks of life. The pigeon farm is getting better and better, and the dream of getting rid of poverty and becoming rich in Shanggusi Village is getting closer and closer.