Developing Distinctive Ecological Breeding to Fulfill the Dream of Prosperity

Recently, a reporter walked into a breeding farm in Lisong Village, Lisong Town, Babu District, and heard "cluck, cluck, cluck..." The birds raised here are not ordinary poultry, but red junglefowl and silver pheasants. "The grown red junglefowl are almost all sold out now, and most of what remains are chicks," the farm's owner Li Sha told the reporter.

Li Sha is a native of Lisong Village, Lisong Town. After working away from home for many years, she returned to her hometown in 2008 and began raising red junglefowl and silver pheasants, investing more than 1 million yuan in succession to build a breeding farm covering more than 10 mu. Li Sha said: "Red junglefowl have strong disease resistance and suffer from few illnesses. They are light in body weight and eat little. Generally they are fed twice a day, and they can be released at the edges and corners of the fields to forage freely." At present, Li Sha's farm has more than 3,000 red junglefowl and more than 200 silver pheasants.

"Grown red junglefowl generally weigh just over two jin each and sell for 100 yuan, while silver pheasants sell for more than 200 yuan each," Li Sha explained. Whether the customer is nearby in Guilin or as far away as Shandong, as long as an order comes in, she will ship the goods. The steady stream of orders has let Li Sha taste the sweetness of distinctive ecological breeding, and she also plans to rent the land around the farm to further expand its scale.

Li Sha's "road to prosperity" is just a microcosm of Lisong Town's development of distinctive ecological breeding. In recent years, Lisong Town has based itself on its resource advantages and, while consolidating the development of traditional large-scale breeding, actively explored various efficient and distinctive breeding paths to prosperity. It now raises porcupines, forest frogs, bamboo rats and other distinctive species, and ecological breeding is becoming more and more popular.