Yuexi, Anhui: big Rex rabbit farmers help neighbors shake off poverty and become rich

Cheng Shudan, who lives in Hexi Village, Dianqian Town, Yuexi County, Anqing City, was once a poor household in the village. he was lifted out of poverty by raising Rex rabbits in 2013. now he is a big Rex rabbit farmer in the town and has set up a professional cooperative for Rex rabbit breeding in Hefei. Over the years, while he became rich, he did not forget to help the poor families in the village out of poverty. By 2015, he had led more than 60 villagers to raise Rex rabbits, of which 30 were poor, and many of them had been lifted out of poverty. This year, he plans to drive another 60 poor households to develop Rex rabbit breeding, so that all poor households in the village can be lifted out of poverty.

On March 3, the reporter walked into Cheng Shudan's Rex rabbit breeding factory and saw that the entrance was a neat rabbit house, each rabbit cage lived a Rex rabbit, the environment was clean and tidy. The Rex rabbit, with red eyes, long ears and white fur, stayed very quietly in the cage.

"in 2010, there were only two rows of rabbit houses here. I started raising rabbits from 68 breeding rabbits. Now I already have five rabbit houses, which can produce 12000 commercial rabbits a year, with an annual output value of 700000 to 800,000 yuan." Cheng Shudan said that in the past, there were meat rabbits raised in the village, but the efficiency has not been good. When he was working out of town, he once accidentally saw the Rex rabbit in a magazine and was very interested in it. Later, he specially visited the breeding base of Jiangsu Rex rabbit. He found that not only the fur of the Rex rabbit could be sold, but also the meat could be eaten. It must be better than raising a meat rabbit, so he went back to his hometown to raise the Rex rabbit.

In 2010, after studying and training in the rabbit farm of Anhui Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Cheng Shudan returned to his hometown Hexi Village to set up a Rex rabbit breeding factory and set up a professional cooperative for Rex rabbit breeding. At that time, he introduced 68 breeding rabbits from the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and bred 880 rabbits that year. By September 2011, he had sold more than 5000 commercial rabbits, developed 11 peasant households, and made a profit of more than 200,000 yuan.

By 2013, Hefei Rex rabbit breeding cooperatives have developed 800 female rabbits, driving more than 30 farmers in the county and neighboring counties, with an annual output of 24000 commercial rabbits. Cheng Shudan said that the scale of Rex rabbit farming has expanded, and in order to achieve higher benefits, the cooperative decided to engage in deep processing of rabbit meat. In August 2013, the cooperative separately registered and established Anhui Hefei Ecological Agriculture Development Co., Ltd., which built a 500 square meter standardized rabbit meat processing plant with an annual processing of 500 tons of rabbit meat, increasing the income of each commercial rabbit by 20 yuan. "the wholesale price of processed rabbit meat is more than 30 yuan per jin, and the fur of Rex rabbit is 30 yuan per piece. Now, a Rex rabbit can sell for more than 90 yuan." Cheng Shudan said.

Today, in Hexi Village, Rex rabbit breeding has become a poverty alleviation project. For poor households to raise Rex rabbits, the government will provide a financial subsidy of 2000 yuan. In August 2015, Cheng Jiaozhen, a poor family in Hexi Village, bought 36 breeding rabbits at a cost of more than 4000 yuan. By December, he had sold more than 100 commercial rabbits and made a profit of 5,000 to 6,000 yuan. Now there are more than 120 rabbits in his rabbit house. Cheng Jiaozhen said that in the past, he mainly relied on raising silkworms at home, which was bitter and tired, and he could not earn any money. the family of six earned only 10,000 to 20,000 yuan a year, but now the income of raising rabbits is not only much easier, but also higher.