Characteristic farming in Jimusar County has become a new favorite for getting rich.

Raising blue foxes and pigeons has become a new darling for farmers to increase their income and become rich in Jimusar County. At the Blue Fox Farm in Ergong Town, Jimusar County, the author saw foxes with strong physique and bright fur moving back and forth in iron cages. These foxes were carefully cultivated by Tian Zhihong over the past three years, and they are also his new darlings to get rich.

Blue fox, also known as white fox and arctic blue fox, has high fur value, high nutritional value of meat and certain medicinal value. After building a farm in 2013 and buying 100 foxes, Tian Zhihong made a profit of 180000 yuan the following year. This year, Tian Zhihong expanded the scale of breeding and began to try to breed on her own. According to the net profit of about 500 yuan per blue fox, the income is expected to reach 200000 yuan this year. Tian Zhihong said: "our farm was introduced from Hebei in 13 years to breed foxes. At that time, more than 100 foxes were introduced and more than 600 were bred. This is mainly an agreement signed with fur merchants in Hebei. From December to January every year, their fur merchants come to skin."

Like him, Wang Wenjie, a farmer from Ergong Town, Jimusar County, who loved pigeons, raised pigeons and started a business on the spot became the "pigeon king".

In Wang Wenjie's farm, rows of pigeon cages rumbled and opened, snow-white meat pigeons fluttered their wings and jumped up and down. Meat pigeon, ornamental pigeon, peacock pigeon. There are more than 3000 pigeons of more than 30 varieties, from cheap meat pigeons of more than 20 yuan to ornamental pigeons of several hundred yuan, thousands of yuan and even the most expensive 20, 000 yuan, which can greatly satisfy pigeon lovers.

Wu Haibing, a villager who likes pigeons, said: "I usually prefer pigeons. His scale is relatively large. In our spare time, we will come and have a look around. How do people raise pigeons? he also has more varieties of pigeons. If we like them, we will catch a few."

Pigeon meat, pigeon eggs and pigeon dung are all magic weapons for profit here. In 2014, Wang Wenjie and other villagers set up a characteristic farming cooperative and actively taught pigeon farming skills to the villagers. so far, he has become the largest professional pigeon farmer in Jimusar County, and the breeding profit has also doubled.