Zhangqiao Village relied on meat pigeon breeding to help poor families out of poverty

"The pigeons I raise have already started laying eggs. They will hatch next month to earn money!" On July 9, standing in front of his pigeon cage, Zhang Guomin, a poor household in Zhangqiao Village, Zhangqiao Town, Zhecheng County, said happily. In the process of precise poverty alleviation, Zhecheng County does not carry out unification, but adapts to local conditions, guides according to the situation, and gradually forms a poverty alleviation mode of one village and one product relying on leading enterprises, professional cooperatives, family farms and large professional households. Zhangqiao Village relies on the meat pigeon farm in the village to form a professional village for meat pigeon breeding and poverty alleviation.

Zhangqiao Village originally had 133 poor households and 458 poor people. After two years of poverty alleviation in 2014 and 2015, there are still 139 people in 51 households who have not been lifted out of poverty. It is planned to achieve overall poverty alleviation in 2017. According to the requirements of Zhecheng County Party Committee, Zhangqiao Village Poverty Alleviation Unit, the cadres stationed in the Propaganda Department of Zhecheng County Party Committee and the first secretary stationed in the village from the Municipal Salt Industry Bureau actively find ways for poor households.

Zhang Tao, a villager of Zhangqiao Village, went to other places to learn meat pigeon breeding technology a few years ago. In 2014, a meat pigeon farm was built in the south of Zhangqiao Village. At present, Zhang Tao's meat pigeon farm monthly net income reaches about 50,000 yuan, the benefit is very good. When Zhang Tao built the field in 2014, in order to help him solve the financial difficulties, Shi Yunjie, the mayor of Zhangqiao Town, once guaranteed Zhang Tao with his salary card and loaned 200,000 yuan. Zhang Tao's heartfelt support for the work of the Party and government. The rapid development of pigeon breeding in the past two years objectively requires Zhang Tao to expand the breeding scale.

Almost at once, Zhang Tao and poor households quickly reached the poverty alleviation development mode of "company + farmer" under the matchmaking of cadres stationed in villages. Zhang Tao provides 40 pairs of 80 high-quality breeding pigeons for each poor household, helps poor households to build pigeon cages at home, provides breeding technology and epidemic prevention drugs for poor households free of charge, and signs agreements to ensure the recycling of pigeons raised by farmers. Farmers buy 40 pairs of breeding pigeons from the "household income increase" project funds supplement.

This poverty alleviation measure was welcomed by farmers in Zhangqiao Village: 40 pairs of pigeons were sent to pigeon cages in their own yards without spending a penny of government subsidy funds; meat pigeon breeding was not like raising ducks and pigs with peculiar smell. Just clean it a little every day, and the air in the yard was clear without peculiar smell; corn and wheat fed to meat pigeons every day were all available at home, so there was no need to worry about buying feed; Technical problems, epidemic prevention problems, Zhang Tao ran home to guide... The key is, 40 pairs of breeding pigeons through breeding growth, basically can guarantee 10,000 yuan of net income every year.

After breeding for a short period of time, poor household Zhang Huaying also innovatively put a few chickens at the bottom of his pigeon cage. Pigeon picky food, food will put some wheat, corn peck down, just let the following chicken eat. In this way, Zhang Huaying not only saved the trouble of cleaning up the leftover food dropped by pigeons every day, but also fed a few chickens fat.

The first batch of pigeons distributed to poor households in March this year have already begun laying eggs. They'll hatch next month. Zhang Tao broke his finger to calculate the account for reporters, 40 pairs of breeding pigeons hatched 80 young pigeons, according to the current 18 days of meat pigeons each 15 yuan to 22 yuan price calculation, villagers next month can earn 1200 yuan to 1760 yuan. Zhang Tao said, Now meat pigeon breeding prospects are very good, Run east and west to work, Better to stay at home to raise meat pigeons. At present, Zhangqiao Village has a lot of villagers who are not poor households also want to raise pigeons to become rich.

Zhangqiao Village formed meat pigeon breeding poverty alleviation method is a part of the implementation of industrial poverty alleviation project in Zhecheng County. At present, Zhecheng County has established a variety of industrial poverty alleviation modes such as "individual enterprises + poor households,""professional cooperatives + poor households," land circulation, etc. through the establishment of stable contractual relationship and interest linkage mechanism between new business entities such as leading enterprises, professional cooperatives, family farms and large professional households and poor households, and is gradually forming an industrial poverty alleviation mode of one village and one product. In addition to Zhangqiao Village developing into a specialized pigeon breeding village, Zhangji Village in Zhangqiao Town has developed into a specialized apple planting village, and Chenlou Village in Yuanxiang Town has developed into a specialized sheep breeding village.