Cen Ruqing of Hepu County, Guangxi, helps farmers get rich by raising geese

In Yangjiang Village, Xingdaohu Township, Hepu County, farmer Cen Ruqing is driving his lion-head geese back to the farm.

Cen Ruqing makes use of the Nanliu River riverbank, which is rich in aquatic grass resources, and adopts an ecological free-range method to raise breeding geese. In just a few short years, he went from just a few dozen at the start to more than 700 at present, with an annual income of more than 80,000 yuan, and he has led more farmers in his village to walk together onto thegoose-raisingroad to wealth.

It is understood that since the beginning of this year, relevant departments in Hepu County have actively guided farmers to engage in quick-return projects, established specialized breeding cooperatives, further expanded the scale, and made the traditional breeding industry bigger and stronger as a leading industry to increase farmers' income. The county has adopted the "company + farmer" model, with more than 250 breeding goose farmers countywide and an annual output value of more than 80 million yuan. At present, the county has developed 1 farmergoose-raisingspecialized cooperative, achieving unified incubation, unified egg supply, unified seedling supply and other methods, leading the masses to raise geese and get rich.