The cost of eliminating insect pests by stocking chickens in Camellia oleifera field is low.

Original title: Liping, Guizhou: build a chicken "villa" in Camellia oleifera.

A chicken "villa" in the base of Camellia oleifera in Gaotun Modern Agricultural Park is photographed in Liping County, southeastern Guizhou Province on March 2.

At present, in the 1500 mu of Camellia oleifera base in Gaotun Modern Agricultural Park, Liping County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province, there are more than 100 independent chicken sheds in a superior environment, like a chicken "villa". There are a total of more than 5000 local native chickens here, forming a unique "chicken raising under the forest" model.

According to the person in charge of the Camellia oleifera base, since 2015, park staff have tried to "raise chickens under the forest". Compared with caged breeding, chickens can move around, saving feed costs and removing pests for woodland.

Issued by Xinhua News Agency (photo by Yang Daifu)

Chickens look for food in Camellia oleifera base in Gaotun Modern Agricultural Park, Liping County, Southeast Guizhou on March 2.

Administrators feed chickens at the Camellia oleifera base in Gaotun Modern Agricultural Park, Liping County, southeastern Guizhou Province, on March 2.