The "Chicken Commander" in the Border Mountain Village

The shanzhai is deep and the trees are lush.

Leaving Ruili city, winding more than 30 kilometers of mountain road, and then walking up to 2 kilometers of dregs, the reporter came to Huwa village and saw tile houses, chicken sheds, and Duan Biqing, director of Huwashan native chicken farming professional cooperative, which is called "chicken commander" by the villagers. With dark skin, the man in his late thirties looks much older than he really is.

Huwa Village is located in the northwest mountain area of Ruili City, Dehong Dai Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, and the opposite side of a river is Myanmar. Of the more than 1400 people in the village, more than 800 are of the Jingpo nationality, and nearly 500 are poor households who set up archives and set up cards. Villagers scattered in more than 10 square kilometers of mountain forests, to grow sugar cane as the main source of income, the per capita annual net income is only more than 2000 yuan, is a typical border minority poverty-stricken village.

"when I first came here, I thought all the way, what to do, what to do, I felt like I was walking from afternoon to dark." Duan Biqing, a city boy, came here for the first time as a college student "village official" in 2009. The conditions are difficult, and the monthly salary is only 1000 yuan, and the 23 "village officials" of the same group of college students walked nearly half in the first year.

At that time, there was no cement road in the village, and dozens of miles of potholed mountain roads left scars on his knees and chin. When I first came to Huwa village, "it's really too hard." Duan Biqing was confused and at a loss. Once, he spent three months going door to door to visit the whole village. he was moved by the poverty he saw with his own eyes. looking at the inefficient forest on which the villagers lived, he came up with the idea of raising native chickens to lead the villagers to become rich.

"the dolls in the city are unreliable and messing around." The villagers were not optimistic at first. Duan Biqing decided to try first. Only if he took the lead and succeeded, did the villagers have the confidence to work together.

Lack of funds, he persuaded his family to mortgage his only house.

If you want to raise chickens in the mountains, you must first have access to roads, electricity and water. He paved the road in the mountains at 1.1 o'clock and set up electric wires with bamboo poles to bring water from the mountains. "I had never done any work before. I built a small ditch for buried pipes and dug only 20 meters for three days, and my hands were covered with blood blisters." Recalling those days, Duan Biqing said with a smile.

Sleeping in the mountains is a big problem. when mosquitoes drill through a house surrounded by bamboo slices in summer, they must light a few plates of mosquito incense. It is cold in the mountains on winter nights, and they can only sleep in down jackets and quilts.

In this way, huts made of bamboo, swords of wind and frost, and mountains with few people come and go. With a shovel of mud and a shovel of dirt, the chicken coop shows its embryonic form in the mountains; one foot is deep and the other is shallow, Duan Biqing has been working for seven years.

He had never been in contact with raising chickens and did not know anything about technology. The first batch of 1050 chickens died and nearly half of them died. The surviving chickens never grew up. In order to explore breeding techniques, he flipped through books, surfed the Internet, and went to chicken farms for advice....

After several failures, finally, the chicken farm is beginning to bear fruit.

But the first thing Duan Biqing thought of was how to make more villagers get rich by raising chickens. He began to use the model of "base + farmers" to set up cooperatives. Farmers came to him on credit for chicken seedlings and materials, and he helped villagers make breeding plans. All adult chickens were recovered with cash at a guaranteed price of 15% higher than the market price. Up to now, among the more than 170 farmers who have cooperated with Duan Biqing, there are more than 90 poor households who have set up archives and set up cards.

The account book is full of 12 cabinets. Farmers take chicken seedlings, loans for materials, and then the income from buybacks, excluding the fees for chicken seedlings and materials, and settle 3470 yuan, 2580 yuan, 1745 yuan for farmers. The accounts between Duan Biqing and the villagers over the past few years have been clear and clear. According to a rough calculation, the net profit of the 170000 chickens listed last year totaled 2.05 million yuan, and the share of cooperative farmers reached 1.72 million yuan.

The villager Dao Mu Dong raised more than 1000 chickens in his family, and she and her husband were the only labourers in the family. The old man is ill in bed and has to support a family, young and old, as well as foster children from relatives. "the burden of farming is very heavy, and there is some income from raising chickens, but there are also many places to use." "good man, good man, good man." Speaking of Duan Biqing, she spoke three "good people" in less fluent Chinese.

"it's better than farming, and you can keep your home." The villager Musang opened a snack bar with two old people and two children who raised more than 800 chickens. "Duan Biqing is good to us. He doesn't rush accounts without cash flow." She calculated that there were still dozens of mu of land on the mountain, and she wanted to raise more chickens on the mountain in the future.

"it is more important to teach people to fish than to teach people how to fish. It is most important to change backward ideas and teach farmers skills." Duan Biqing regards training as a major event.

Chicken coop, field, village committee, school. There are at least two or three people, and as many as hundreds of people. Duan Biqing talks to the villagers in the mountains about farming and e-commerce again and again, and sometimes holds training more than a dozen times a month. There are often farmers who come to chicken farms from poor mountainous areas such as Longchuan, Yingjiang and Lianghe to learn the technology of unheated brooding. Duan Biqing eats and lives with them, free of charge.

There are more and more farmers in cooperative farming. With cooperatives, the problem of farmers raising "the first kilometer" has been solved, but as more and more chickens have been raised, marketing has become a problem. Duan Biqing has targeted e-commerce and brick-and-mortar stores, hoping to better link up with the "last kilometer" of farmers' desire to shake off poverty and become rich.

Children of the same age have all run away, but Duan Biqing is single-minded in the cooperative and has not been married so far. "I think I'm really happy. It's not a comparison of how much money I earn." He didn't say much about leading the villagers out of poverty, but his pride arises spontaneously. "if I want to help them, I have to help them."... "