Raising Three Kinds of Poultry Under the Pagoda Tree Forest, Poultry Manure and Fallen Leaves Cycle into Fertilizer

Original title: Yongqing, Hebei: Three-dimensional Ecological Farming Comes to Farming Households

On June 28, farmers at the Linxin Farmers' Cooperative in Bieguzhuang Village were feeding free-range laying hens with pagoda tree leaves.

Comprehensive report by San Nong Zhi Tong Che: The Linxin Farmers' Cooperative in Bieguzhuang Village, Bieguzhuang Town, Yongqing County, Langfang City, Hebei Province, has adopted a new three-dimensional ecological farming model, introducing 600 mu of large-leaf fast-growing pagoda trees (Sophora japonica), using the pagoda tree leaves as feed, and raising chickens, ducks, geese and other poultry under the trees. The poultry manure can in turn serve as fertilizer for the fast-growing pagoda trees, forming a three-dimensional circular ecological agriculture. At present, the cooperative raises more than 10,000 poultry in total, with a comprehensive benefit of 5000 yuan per mu.

Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Xiaoguo

On June 28, white geese at the Linxin Farmers' Cooperative in Bieguzhuang Village were raised free-range in a forest of large-leaf fast-growing pagoda trees.