Lion-head goose farming sets Tuo Xingshun on the road to prosperity
As the saying goes: by fifty, one knows one's destiny. Past fifty, the most passionate years of life are gone, and one's achievements, responsibilities and hopes are already fixed. What should a person over fifty be doing? Waiting to retire and living a life of tea, fishing and square dancing; or lightly managing household chores at home and dandling grandchildren; or indulging in health regimens and quietly awaiting the arrival of old age.
None of this could be seen in Tuo Xingshun, who was over fifty; it seemed to be hidden away inside him, not daring to show the slightest trace. As one of the earliest group of farmers from Qianxiang Subdistrict Office in Anlong County to go out to work for a living at Zhongnan Company, he worked his way up from an ordinary construction worker to a project foreman, gradually tempering himself into a farmer with new ideas and new concepts. He often thought that working for others was not a way out for a lifetime; when he grew old and could no longer work, what would he live on then? So he decided to return to his hometown and start a business.
A returning migrant worker seeks a path to entrepreneurship; Anlong Rural Commercial Bank does all it can to help him prosper
Tuo Xingshun, over fifty, returned home from working in Shanghai, carrying the 100,000 yuan he had painstakingly saved and preparing to go all out, but he had no idea what industry to develop or how to develop it. At that time, the Qianxiang Subdistrict Office was in the midst of a boom in flue-cured tobacco planting, with every household planting it. Someone suggested that Tuo Xingshun follow everyone else and take up flue-cured tobacco planting. After thinking it over again and again, Tuo Xingshun lost confidence in tobacco planting: first, he had no technical skills; second, most of the local land had already been transferred, making it hard to expand the scale.
By a chance opportunity, Tuo Xingshun discovered at a relative's place thatraising geesewas a very good way out: the investment was small, the space needed for a breeding base was not large, and the market was broad. On top of that, having been born a farmer, he already had breeding experience. He acted at once: Tuo Xingshun took out all his savings, built a 500 sq m breeding base on the hill behind his home, and bought 500 goslings.
Large-scale breeding is, after all, different from smallholder breeding: how do you control disease?Where would the large amount of forage needed forgoose farming
come from? How should the manure be handled? Problems came thick and fast, and nearly crushed this weather-beaten fifty-year-old man. While attending the financial night school of the Qianxiang Branch of Anlong Rural Commercial Bank, Tuo Xingshun met Wang Shunli, then president of the Qianxiang Branch of Anlong Rural Commercial Bank. Wang Shunli had graduated from an agricultural college and had work experience at an agricultural technology station. Learning of Tuo Xingshun's situation, President Wang took the initiative to visit him at home, guiding him in lion-head goose farming, recommending his own veterinarian friends to help Tuo Xingshun through the difficulties, and even spending his own money to buy a few hundred yuan worth of goose-farming reference books online for Tuo Xingshun. Tuo Xingshun said with emotion: "The Rural Commercial Bank not only supports us farmers financially, but also helps us like family when we are in trouble."
Natural disaster is merciless, leaving every step hard; the Rural Credit system has love and solves the problems
With the help of the Rural Commercial Bank, everything slowly got on track, and Tuo Xingshun's breeding scale gradually expanded. Just as another batch of lion-head geese was about to be ready for market, a sudden bolt of lightning struck his farm, killing more than 300 geese, severely damaging the base's equipment, and injuring Tuo Xingshun himself with a lightning strike because he was on watch in the goose shed that day; the economic loss reached more than 60,000 yuan.
Not long after the lightning disaster, a severe epidemic also swept through Tuo Xingshun's farm. The farm, which had not yet recovered its strength, was hit once again, and Tuo Xingshun, looking at the only 7 lion-head geese left alive, wept bitterly; this time he lost everything he had invested.
With no way out, Tuo Xingshun went to Wang Shunli and successfully applied for a 60,000 yuan small-sum farmer loan. Heaven rewards the diligent: after 3 years of effort, and with the help of the Rural Commercial Bank, Tuo Xingshun's breeding base had begun to take shape, and he became a locally known breeder, with neighbors vying to learn from his breeding experience.
The Rural Commercial Bank spreads the recipe for prosperity; lion-head geese help impoverished villages
Rongda Village in Qianxiang Subdistrict Office, Anlong County, is a typical deep rocky mountain area where ethnic minorities live together, and the harsh geographical environment means farmers here cannot grow normal cash crops as in other areas. High in the mountains and far from everything, with inconvenient transportation, it is a Category One impoverished village in the province. The villagers of Rongda Village had sought countless ways to prosperity, planting honeysuckle and Dendrobium officinale, and developing green-shell laying hen farming, all of which ended in failure.
The Qianxiang Branch of Anlong Rural Commercial Bank led the villagers of Rongda Village to learn from Tuo Xingshun's successful experience in becoming prosperous, and the villagers bought goslings from Tuo Xingshun's goose farm. In the name of the village cooperative, Rongda Village hired Tuo Xingshun as a technical adviser, learning his techniques to drive the villagers to develop small family-style goose farms. The Qianxiang Branch of Anlong Rural Commercial Bank actively contacted the government for poverty-alleviation funding support, actively used "poverty alleviation relending" and "preferential loans" funds to support farmers in escaping poverty and becoming prosperous, and offered preferential interest rates. It selected lion-head goose farming as Rongda Village's prosperity project, hired livestock experts to teach breeding knowledge in the "financial night school", and impoverished households, with the help of the Qianxiang Branch of Anlong Rural Commercial Bank, gradually moved onto the right track of development. At present, the Qianxiang Branch of Anlong Rural Commercial Bank has lent more than 2 million yuan in total to support impoverished households in developing lion-head geese, improving the quality and effectiveness of its financial poverty-alleviation work.