* * 50,000 special birds in Wuqia County "fly" into plateau pastures

(agricultural Wealth Network) in Wuqia County Yuqitashi grassland, the largest summer grassland in southern Xinjiang, more than 12000 Pamir chickens are happily foraging around snow-white yurts. This is what the author saw with his own eyes a few days ago.

In order to make full use of the existing grassland resources, Wuqia County specially invested 200000 yuan to buy eight incubators and more than 50, 000 chickens, red-billed geese, ducks, pigeons and other special poultry eggs to hatch on their own, and after growing to two months to form seedlings, party members and cadres of counterpart support units sent them free of charge to poor herdsmen yurts for pasture stocking.

In the past two years, Wuqia County has taken the characteristic breeding industry as an important channel to promote economic development and increase the income of farmers and herdsmen. It has divided 10 characteristic breeding areas in the county, invested more than 3 million yuan to build two poultry incubation and breeding bases with an annual seedling supply capacity of 400000 birds (only), and built four brooding centers in four townships including Heiziwei Township. At present, 300000 special birds are farmed in the county, and 2-3 fattening and fattening associations for farmers and herdsmen have been set up in each township to promote the characteristic breeding of red-billed geese into scale and industry.

Zhang Ping, deputy head of the county's government in charge of agriculture, told me: now we are working hard to transform scientific and technological achievements and give characteristic breeding technology and development space to farmers and herdsmen, so as to enhance their "hematopoiesis" function for getting rich, which has achieved preliminary results.

"in the past, our red-billed geese could only buy Kashgar and Kezhou, but now Urumqi, and even inland cities such as Dalian and Guangzhou, can eat the red-billed geese we raise, so we don't worry about raising more." With 4500 red-billed geese breeding scale, Bayinkuruti township Kizil Argentina village red-billed geese professional breeder A Youfu said proudly.

It is understood that the county has invested more than 1600 million yuan to fence all the existing pastures for the stocking of characteristic birds. At present, more than 50, 000 special birds in the county have been distributed to more than 1200 poor farmers and herdsmen, directly driving more than 3000 farmers and herdsmen to develop the breeding of birds with characteristics on the plateau, and the breeding scale is planned to reach 250000 this year.

"stocking in special poultry pastures not only saves raising costs, but also kills locusts and raises grass. The characteristic birds cultivated are of delicious meat. They are veritable plateau green grass chickens and are very popular in the market." Wulukchati Township Party Committee Secretary Wang Qiwei said.