Huaibin farmers become pigeon kings to drive one side of economic development

Lao Tian's pigeon farm

The Honor won by Lao Tian (part)

Love pigeons, raise pigeons, start a business on the spot and become the "pigeon king". Lao Tian, a farmer in Fanghu Town, Huaibin County, Xinyang City, has set up a professional cooperative by virtue of his love of pigeons and mastery of breeding technology. After 7 years of development, Lao Tian has become the largest professional pigeon farmer in the south of Henan Province.

Lao Tian is an ordinary farmer in Fanghu Town. After farming, working as a bricklayer and doing odd jobs in the city, in 2009, he embarked on the road of raising pigeons professionally.

On November 20, the reporter walked into Lao Tian's farm, and rows of pigeon houses rumbled, opened the cage, and the snow-white meat pigeons jumped up and down with wings. Meat pigeon, ornamental pigeon, peacock pigeon. There are more than 20000 pigeons of more than 30 species, ranging from cheap meat pigeons with a price of more than 20 yuan to ornamental pigeons priced at several hundred yuan, thousands of yuan or even tens of thousands of yuan. Here, pigeon meat, pigeon eggs and pigeon droppings are all magic weapons that can make a profit.

While the reporter was interviewing, Lao Zhang, a villager from other villages in the town, came to choose his favorite pigeon. Lao Zhang said, "I usually prefer pigeons." Lao Tian's breeding scale is relatively large, so I come here to have a look around when I have time to learn how he raises pigeons. I'm going to raise some myself in the future. "

After several years of development, Lao Tian's pigeon farming business continues to grow in scale. In 2011, Lao Tian established a professional cooperative for field pigeon breeding, and actively taught pigeon farming technology to villagers, and breeding profits also doubled. After the establishment of the cooperative, but also many times to Shandong, Anhui and other places to learn breeding techniques, and continue to introduce new varieties.

Lao Tian told reporters that his pigeon farm is all automatic Chinese work, the current breeding of more than 20000 pigeons, there are 5 people to help look after and operate. Laotian's pigeon farm uses almost 15 tons of feed every year, worth about 900000 yuan. Lao Tian's customers are mainly from Shanghai, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other coastal developed areas. Due to the good quality of the pigeons he raised, orders fell short of demand. Due to the limitation of scale, many customers could not get the goods, and the orders were lost in vain.

As the saying goes, "peers are enemies," but Lao Tian does not see it this way. he believes that this is the information age, and whoever controls resources can decide. Only by raising pigeons together to enter the market can we achieve common prosperity. He has widely spread the book of raising pigeons. Through professional pigeon-raising cooperatives and taking the road of breeding bases, cooperatives and farmers, he has helped nearly 100 farmers in surrounding counties to embark on the road to prosperity. Each household raises more than 500 pairs of pigeons, and the annual income can be increased by more than 30,000 yuan. good economic and social benefits have been achieved.

2017 is coming, and in the new year, Lao Tian's greatest wish is to expand the scale of his farm. Lao Tian's plan is that if the local government can support him financially, only by raising more than 200,000 breeding pigeons on his farm will he be able to meet the order demand on the market and provide 50 jobs for local farmers.

I hope that Lao Tian's pigeon farming will become bigger and bigger, and it will also help more farmers to get rich.