The Fortune-Building Story of "Chicken King" Awut Yimir in the Regiment Farm
"Chicken King" Awut Yimir is inspecting the growth of black crossbred chickens in the chicken coop.
Walking into Company 25 of Regiment 1, Jinyinchuan Town, First Division of the **Production and Construction Corps, "Chicken King" Awut Yimir was feeding his chickens in his own yard. Watching the nearly 1,000 black crossbred chickens being raised in his courtyard grow healthily, Awut Yimir said, "They can be sold in another month."
Awut Yimir has lived in the Corps since childhood. Over the past two years, by using the "two mu of land" in front of and behind his house to develop courtyard economy, his living conditions have improved greatly. Because Awut Yimir has mastered scientific chicken-raising methods, he is called "Chicken King" by local officials and residents, and people come to his home in an endless stream to learn from his experience.
On Awut Yimir's path to "prosperity," the "Visit the People, Benefit the People, Gather the People" work team of the **Production and Construction Corps Investment Company gave tremendous help. In early 2016, after the "Visit the People, Benefit the People, Gather the People" work team moved into Company 25 of Regiment 1, it guided the residents according to actual conditions to develop the courtyard economy, and invited technical personnel to explain planting and breeding techniques to the residents, setting a large number of people on the path to increased income. "Under the guidance and support of the work team and the company Party branch, I started raising chickens last year. The first batch was 500 chickens, and in more than two months I made a net profit of 6,500 yuan. This year I have taken on nearly 1,000 more chickens. The chicks are growing well now, and they can be sold in another month," Awut Yimir told reporters.
Yang Yuanjun, head of the "Visit the People, Benefit the People, Gather the People" work team, said that after the work team moved into Company 25 at the beginning of the year, it changed poverty alleviation from "blood transfusion" to "blood production." In order to stimulate the enthusiasm of ethnic minority employees for raising chickens, preferential treatment was given for purchasing feed, with a policy of buy one kilogram and get one kilogram free, while long-term technical guidance was provided to breeders. In addition, the work team helped chicken raisers solve the problem of selling chickens. After all the chickens were sold, a support policy was also provided of a subsidy of one yuan for each chicken raised, fundamentally stimulating the enthusiasm of ethnic minority employees for raising chickens. In the future, the work team will continue to guide ethnic minority residents to change their thinking, develop the courtyard economy according to local conditions, and effectively help the residents escape poverty and become prosperous.
It is reported that Company 25 of Regiment 1, Jinyinchuan Town, is located in Shajingzi in the Gobi Desert, and having more people but less land has become the main factor restricting development. The regiment Party committee implemented structural adjustment to promote development, vigorously promoted and applied new agricultural science and technology, advanced internal agricultural adjustment, accelerated the adjustment of the planting structure on limited land, and vigorously developed household planting and breeding beginning with "local": local chickens, local ducks, local peaches, local apricots, and so on. By selling agricultural and sideline products from the courtyard economy, household income increased, and poverty alleviation and prosperity were achieved.
"Nowadays, more and more employees of the regiment are developing the courtyard economy through various models such as vegetable planting and livestock and poultry breeding. This has not only improved the utilization rate of land and space, but also made full use of surplus household labor. A new pattern of courtyard economy has taken shape, bringing big benefits from small courtyards, not only improving their own standard of living, but also opening a new path for employees to increase income and become prosperous," said Maimitili Remitili, deputy political commissar of Regiment 1.