Zhang Yunxiang, Wei Zhen and his wife: working together to find a way to get rich

The couple are on a chicken farm.

Although it has been a while, Zhang Yunxiang and Wei Zhen from Dazhong Village, Boulang Township, Boulang Township, Shidian County, Baoshan City, Yunnan Province, still can't contain their excitement. In December last year, Li Jiheng, secretary of the provincial party committee, came to his family's chicken base and fully affirmed that the couple had developed an ecological chicken industry and led the villagers to get rich. The photo of Zhang Yunxiang shaking hands with the provincial party secretary also appeared on the front page of the newspaper.

Recently, the reporter once again came to the chicken farm of Zhang Yunxiang and his wife to visit the development of their ecological native chicken farming. At the chicken farm, Zhang Yunxiang and his wife were very happy. He wanted to tell Secretary Li Jiheng: "by constantly learning knowledge, improving breeding techniques, and meticulous management, our couple have now boomed production and sales of ecological native chickens, growing from more than 4500 at that time to more than 20, 000. Please rest assured that we will further expand the scale of farming and drive more farmers to shake off poverty and become rich."

Start a business for many times and be indomitable

The large and medium-sized village where Zhang Yunxiang is located is a village inhabited by the Bulang nationality, with high mountains and steep slopes and barren land. Because of the lack of water, the land cannot grow rice, and even the flue-cured tobacco planted cannot be sold at a high price because of its poor quality. For a long time, villagers can only make a living by growing traditional crops such as cereal and wheat.

Li Xinzhao, secretary of the party branch of Dazhong Village, said: "people in the village can only live on the mountain. There are 2076 people in 12 village groups in nine natural villages, and there are 278 poor households, and the per capita net income of farmers is only 3600 yuan."

Zhang Yunxiang is a group of farmers born and raised in Dazhong village who have made a living in the mountains for generations. "four brothers are huddled with their parents in the old house, and sometimes they can't even eat cereal noodles." Zhang Yunxiang said that after he separated his family at the age of 23, he led his two children to build three civil structure houses outside, so that they lived more spacious.

Zhang Yunxiang is recognized as a capable man in the village, but in the mountainous area where there is a shortage of water and little farmland, it is difficult to dig out golden bumps even if he works hard in the ground. At that time, the two sons were studying and the family had to spend money. Seeing that there was no hope of farming, he was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot.

In order to increase their income and provide for their children to study, Zhang Yunxiang and his wife started a part-time job model. "be a veterinarian, make soju, burn bricks and tiles, pick feces, do odd jobs, do what you see, and do what you make money." Zhang Yunxiang said that he worked hard for a year, but he could not earn much money.

In 2006, Zhang Yunxiang and his wife, who had tried countless ways to make money, planted 63 mu of southwest birch in the mountain area of small pine forest by exchanging land. Unexpectedly, this woodland provides an excellent place for the development of ecological chicken farming in the future.

Ecological chicken breeding to find the right way to get rich

Walking into the chicken farm of Zhang Yunxiang and his wife, in the grass covered by green trees, one by one brightly feathered native chickens are looking for food and grow freely. Relying on these ecological farmers, their family's life is getting better and better day by day.

On December 29, 2012, his son Zhang Haibiao, a sophomore at Yunnan Agricultural University, introduced his parents to work in the school's chicken base. "as soon as I went in, I was shocked. In the mountains of about 16 mu, there are laying hens, commercial chickens, breeder chickens and other kinds of chickens." Wei Zhen said.

Incubation, seed selection, vaccination, artificial insemination. During more than 8 months in the chicken base, Zhang Yunxiang and his wife learned the skill of raising chickens. "I know everything except that I can't do an experiment. Taking a part-time job is not a long-term solution. We have more than 60 mu of mountains and forests and the skills of raising chickens. Go back and take a break. " To develop under-forest farming, Zhang Yunxiang had such an idea for a long time, but he had been delayed because of the lack of technology, so the couple thought twice and decided to go home and start a business.

On September 22, 2013, the couple returned home with more than 600 eggs bought from school and began their entrepreneurial road of ecologically stocking native chickens. "if you want to raise ecological native chickens, let them grow freely in nature, eat grass, grain, and wine dregs when they are hungry, and walk and play in the woods when they are full. in this way, the chicken is fresh and tender, and the stewed chicken soup is pure." Wei Zhen said.

More than half a year later, the couple began to sell the first batch of ecological native chickens. although they were seven or eight yuan more expensive than ordinary chickens on the market, they were very popular as soon as they were listed. Now, more and more people come to the chicken farm to buy chickens, and many customers from nearby counties and districts come specially to buy chickens. Last year, the gross income of selling farm chickens was more than 200,000 yuan, and the net income was about 90,000 yuan, which not only quickly got rid of poverty, but also moved towards a well-off society. After running around for many years, Zhang Yunxiang and his wife finally found a way to shake off poverty and become rich.

At present, the breeding scale of Zhang Yunxiang and his wife has expanded to more than 20, 000 (including 7600 unheated chickens). After the son with professional skills returned from his studies, he also stayed at home to help the couple develop the chicken industry, but they were not satisfied with it. Wei Zhen said that with the support of project support funds and discounted interest loans in Shidian County, more than 600,000 yuan has been invested to build a good chicken farm road, standard incubators and chicken sheds have been built, and two standard incubators have been purchased, which can hatch 5560 chickens at the same time. At the same time, a cooperative relationship has been established with Yunnan Agricultural University to provide chicken seedlings and expand the scale of raising chickens.

The demonstration drives the villagers to have a rush.

Yang Zixin, 43, is a villager of the Rig group in Dazhong Village. There are 77-year-old people in need of care and two children in school. He has a lot of expenses every month, so that he can't make ends meet when he can't go out to work. After seeing the success of the chicken farm set up by Zhang Yunxiang and his wife, Yang Zixin specifically consulted them on the knowledge and experience of raising chickens in July last year. When he came back, he also raised more than 800 chickens, all of which were sold at a good price at the end of the year.

In Dazhong village, every household has the habit of raising chickens, but most of them are kept sporadically, and the villagers exchange it for pocket money, which does not form economies of scale. The large-scale and professional chicken raising of Zhang Yunxiang and his wife provided the villagers with ideas to shake off poverty and become rich. Li Xinzhao said: because the land is barren, the village has not formed an advantageous industry for many years, and every family has forestry resources. the actual mountain forest area of the whole village is nearly 20,000 mu, which has not been used. Zhang Yunxiang and his wife developed ecological native chickens and found the right way to get rich. their success provides the village with experience that can be used for reference and replicated.

At present, Zhang Yunxiang and his wife have demonstrated and driven 42 farmers to develop ecological native chicken industry. In June last year, in order to vigorously develop the aquaculture industry and improve the degree of scale, specialization, and organization, Shanmao farming professional cooperative was set up with a registered capital of 110000 yuan in Dazhong Village, and the chicken farm founded by Zhang Yunxiang was used as the base to develop under-forest farming. Cooperatives adopt the model of "branch + cooperative + farmers + shares" and pay dividends every year according to the proportion of shares. Li Xinzhao said that at present, 42 farmers in Dazhong village have joined the cooperative, raising more than 10,000 ecological native chickens. Not only the large and medium-sized villages, but also the villagers in nearby villages and towns were also driven by Zhang Yunxiang and his wife to learn breeding techniques and develop the ecological chicken industry.

Talking about the next step, Li Xinzhao said: we will actively integrate the projects and funds invested by various departments at all levels into the village, improve the competitiveness and risk prevention ability of cooperatives, constantly improve the farming technology and management level of cooperatives through business training, and actively mobilize the surrounding people to participate in the development of cooperatives by means of land equity, so as to expand the scale of farming. According to the plan, the annual stock of chickens raised by the cooperative will reach 100000 yuan and 160000 birds will be released. Through three years of efforts, the cooperative will achieve a collective economic income of 50, 000 yuan, drive 60 peasant households, achieve an annual sales income of 8 million yuan, a profit of 3.2 million yuan, and an average household income of 53000 yuan.