Olive industry enters the fast lane of poverty alleviation and prosperity

Laobagou Village in Shuimogou District is a traditional Kazakh herding village, and for villagers skilled at herding cattle and sheep, switching to a new trade after settling down became a difficult problem. While everyone was torn between raising sheep and cattle or going out to work, Mansur Yiming became the village's first chicken farmer.

On the 2nd, Mansur Yiming was calculating this year's earnings in front of his newly built chicken coop: "150 yuan per chicken, 1,500 chickens means 225,000 yuan; after deducting costs I can earn 100,000 yuan, which is more cost-effective than raising sheep..."

"A Kazakh herder born and raised here, if he doesn't herd, what can he do?" A year ago, like other villagers, Mansur Yiming felt this same confusion. But under the guidance of the "Visiting the People, Benefiting the People, Bringing Them Together" work team of the Shuimogou District Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau, the answer became clear - Mansur Yiming decided to try raising chickens. The work team provided him with technical support and a 50,000 yuan policy subsidy.

When raising chickens, the fear is that the chickens will get sick and all the effort will be wasted. Once, the chickens at home all had hiccups at the same time, which frightened Mansur Yiming, and he quickly asked the work team for help. Xiao Junguo is the leader of the village-stationed "Visiting the People, Benefiting the People, Bringing Them Together" work team and also the head of the Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Station of the Shuimogou District Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau. He crouched in the chicken coop for half a day, identified the cause, and prescribed the right medicine; after 3 days the chickens recovered their health.

"He lacks experience in raising chickens, so we taught him scientific breeding to reduce the risk to the minimum," Xiao Junguo said. He hopes that Mansur Yiming, as a demonstration farmer, can help more villagers eliminate their concerns.

This year, the survival rate of Mansur Yiming's chickens reached 95%, and they were almost completely sold out, bringing considerable income. "I expanded the chicken coop, and next year I'll try raising some specialty pheasants and partridges," Mansur Yiming said. Recently, several fellow villagers have asked him about the breeding situation, and he also wants to find partners to expand the scale.