"Earth Bee King" beekeeping with dozens of disabled households

Wu Jiqian and his native bees

This entrepreneurial base has become a platform for dozens of disabled people to communicate.

Wu Jiqian is teaching the experience of beekeeping.

Wu Jiqian in the Riverside community, beekeeping brings dozens of disabled people--

In the Riverside Community of Guiyang City, there is a disabled person in his 40s, Wu Jiqian, who is known as the "Earth Bee King". In 1998, he was disabled because of a part-time job, but he did not fail because of it. Instead, with the help of the disabled Federation of Yunyan District, he joined the aquaculture industry with friends of the disabled.

Today, they have not only raised 150 cases of local bees under the Tombaguan overpass, but also scattered some chickens and geese, gradually embarking on the road of getting rid of poverty and becoming rich. The entrepreneurial story of the disabled Wu Jiqian has become a story told by word of mouth among the neighbors, and more disabled people have joined the beekeeping team, and they have embarked on the road to wealth through self-reliance.

Accidental disability decided to start a business.

On the morning of September 4, the reporter came to Wu Jiqian's beehive under the Tombaguan overpass. The apiculture has begun to take shape, covering an area of 300 to 400 square meters, with a total of more than 10 houses and 150 beehives neatly placed on the edge of a fortress in the apiary.

Wu Jiqian, 1.6 meters tall, with a bald head and cloth shoes, looks like a simple uncle. Wu Jiqian said that his hometown was in Chishui, Zunyi, and his family was in trouble since childhood. When he was 13 years old, he left home alone to work in Guiyang. Wu Jiqian can only do some dirty work because he doesn't have much culture. He worked as a masonry on a construction site, as a backman in the street, and decorated with a contractor.

In 1998, when he was working at a construction site, he fell off the wall and broke his waist and leg. from then on, he was disabled and could no longer do heavy work. After leaving behind his disability, Wu Jiqian bought a special car for the disabled with four wheels and lived on sports cars for a living. But later, the government was not allowed to run disabled cars, and with the help of the Yunyan District disabled Persons' Federation, he decided to start a business. After thinking about it, he thought that his ancestors had the experience of beekeeping, so he decided to be a beekeeper.

At the beginning of his business, Wu Jiqian did not have much money. As a result, he came up with an indigenous way to find wild bees in the mountains. In more than half a month at the beginning of his business in 2012, he not only built venues and simple houses, but also found four colonies of native bees in the mountains.

Because of some experience, four colonies of soil bees multiply rapidly, but the original old technology has encountered a bottleneck. The problem of dividing the bees into boxes could not be solved, and as a result, many bees flew away. After encountering difficulties, he went around to learn the knowledge of beekeeping.

Only Wu Jiqian, who was educated in primary school, gradually learned the knack of keeping bees through constant study. The bees in the hive are divided into queen, drones and worker bees. The queen bee is the only female bee in the honeybee population that can lay eggs normally. The only function of the drone is to mate with the queen bee and reproduce, while the worker bee is only responsible for producing honey. Only one queen bee is allowed in each hive. Once there is a second queen bee, if it is not divided in time, the queen bee will flee the hive with some bees.

After learning the technology, the beehive developed rapidly, growing to more than 40 boxes in less than a year, and more than 100 boxes in the second year, with an annual income of nearly 100000 yuan. In the past two years, Wu Jiqian has raised not only bees, but also black-bone chickens and geese, and his income is getting higher and higher.

In the past three years, with the continuous development of apiculture, the apiculture has attracted more than 30 disabled friends from Nanming District, Yunyan District, Wudang District, Qingzhen City, and so on. Wu Jiqian selflessly helped everyone, not only to teach technology, but also to send bees and beehives to lead everyone to get rich.

Wu Jiqian believes that beekeeping does not require much investment, nor is it heavy work, so it is very suitable for the disabled. In the past few years, he has run eight bee breeding classes, tutoring more than 60 disabled friends to learn beekeeping, and giving them bees and beehives free of charge.

Up to now, more than 30 disabled households have received bees and have begun to raise bees to get rich.

Now, Wu Jiqian not only keeps bees, but also begins to raise Chishui black-bone chickens and native geese, and runs long-term training courses at beekeeping grounds, where everyone can not only study, but also eat. Wu Jiqian hopes to find a way to get rich that is suitable for disabled friends to start a business, and lead more disabled friends to shake off poverty and become rich.