Zhang Chao: Golden Rooster sings the Song of getting Rich

Before meeting Zhang Chao, I would never have imagined that a chicken farm could build a small garden. The chicken shed with blue roof neatly sits halfway up the hillside. Among the verdant flowers and trees, there is a high sound of chicken singing from time to time, which looks like a small leisure villa. Before he had time to appreciate it carefully, Zhang Chao, the owner of the farm, warmly welcomed it.

On August 11, the reporter, under the leadership of Zhang Chao, came to the warehouse where he stored fresh eggs. He saw that the yard in the warehouse was full of eggs, which was half a person tall. Zhang Chao said the eggs were just picked up from the henhouse early in the morning and were ready to be shipped to the supermarket.

When it comes to the process of starting a business, the kind man explained it to the reporter.

At the end of 2010, Zhang Chao retired from the army and returned to Zhangying Village, Huying Town, Nanzhang County. Do you want to sit back and eat nothing with your parents' savings, or do you do something? Unwilling to the status quo, he chose the latter. After learning that the laying hen raising industry in Nanzhang County is very good and a quick project, he decided to set up a laying hen farm on the barren hill behind his house.

As soon as the idea was put forward, it immediately won the support of relatives and friends. At the end of 2011, Zhang Chao applied for a loan of more than 700,000 yuan from the rural credit cooperatives to build a laying hen farm. Zhang Chao said: "the farm has 3000 square meters and can raise more than 20, 000 laying hens at the same time."

When he started his first business, Zhang Chao was not sure and only introduced a few thousand chicken seedlings to test the water. Due to lack of breeding experience, a chicken disease hit, he can only helplessly watch those young chickens fall down one by one, the painstaking efforts and sweat wasted.

He "choked his saliva" in the first round of going to sea, and his parents didn't want him to go through any more trouble, so they suggested him to open a small restaurant.

"do you want to give up or stick to it?" Zhang Chao shut himself in the house and thought hard. "at that time, I still owed a lot of money to the feed dealer, and if I gave up, all my previous efforts would have been wasted."

With his fortitude and perseverance honed as a soldier, Zhang Chao did not want to give up easily. He went to the Agricultural Bureau of Nanzhang County to ask experts for advice on the prevention and treatment of chicken disease and learned to match layer feed scientifically. Thanks to his efforts, the farm finally came back from the dead.

After the first batch of eggs were produced, Zhang Chao went to the market and immediately won a lot of customers because of their good taste and pure taste. "our eggs are finished in two days from production to delivery to the supermarket, and each case is of sufficient quality."

However, the road to entrepreneurship is not plain sailing. In 2013, when the farm was gaining momentum, bird flu was rampant and the market was sluggish, which suddenly cost him hundreds of thousands of yuan. He was so frustrated by the heavy blow that he once wanted to sell the farm to others. With the encouragement of his family and the help of his friends and relatives, Zhang Chao survived. Today, the large-scale plant continues to improve, the market has opened, and the farm sales reached more than 4 million yuan last year.

In the process of the gradual expansion of the farm, a large amount of chicken manure and sewage give off a stench, breeding mosquitoes and flies, causing unhappiness among nearby villagers.

How to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages and turn waste into treasure? Zhang Chao pointed to the biogas digester not far from the farm and said, "in order to solve this problem, the county agricultural department allocated more than 100,000 yuan to send technicians to help me build biogas digester, which not only solved the pollution problem, but also let me enjoy the dividend of green development."

"you see, the fire of the biogas stove is so hot that it can boil water and cook very quickly!" In the kitchen of Zhang Chao's house, when he gently turned the ignition, the blue flame shot up. Zhang Chao told reporters that in the past, his family used to burn gas stoves and made do with firewood stoves from time to time, using at least eight bottles of gas a year.

Zhang Chao told reporters that the biogas digester can be used by more than 10 villagers, and at present, several villagers are preparing to introduce biogas into their kitchens. In addition to the money for leather pipes, the villagers pay for it, and biogas is used free of charge.

"when I started farming, I just wanted to find something to do, but now I think more about doing something practical for the villagers." Zhang Chao said. Over the years, he often sent fresh eggs and clothes to the poor families in the village, and tried his best to hire people from the village to work on the farm, so that the dividends of the farm could benefit more folks.