The road to wealth of special poultry farming king Fang Jianjun
In an ecological valley with green hills and clear waters, have you ever seen a scene where more than ten kinds of special poultry, such as Silkie chickens, guinea fowl, turkeys, and wild ducks, chase and play with one another?
While interviewing in Fengshuling, I heard that there was a bold special poultry farming king who had set up a natural farm in an ecological valley, attracting many city people to come for sightseeing and leisure and to taste "mountain delicacies and wild game" - he is Fang Jianjun, a man from Muhuakeng Village, Fengshuling Town.
On a drizzly, misty day, the reporter came to Fang Jianjun's natural special poultry breeding base.
Walking into the base, I was captivated by the beautiful scenery here: lush primitive ecological forest, waterfalls, streams, stretches of wild willow trees, a small wooden bridge, several small houses, occasional wild ducks swimming out of the stream, and groups of Silkie chickens walking out of the shrub forest from time to time. This place is simply a hidden paradise.
Just as everyone was enchanted by the beautiful scenery, Fang Jianjun walked out of a small house and said with a smile, "Come on, I'll show you my special poultry chickens."
We learned that Fang Jianjun's natural farm is located below the Tongshan Dam. This year he invested 200,000 yuan to move the farm from the village to this place. There are more than ten thousand chickens of different breeds here, including more than 1,000 guinea fowl and 2,000 Silkie chickens, all raised free-range. Sometimes these chickens stay in the mountain forest for a week before coming back, and they do not need to be fed grain at all. What they eat are leaves, green grass, wild fruits, and insects, so the special poultry he raises has truly become wild game, with very delicious meat, and is highly favored by hotels in Hangzhou, Xiaoshan, and other places. Orders by phone come in an endless stream. I heard that a single guinea fowl brings a profit of 40 yuan.
Fang Jianjun said that his return to the village to establish an ecological farm stemmed on the one hand from his interest in farming, and on the other hand from his belief that ecological farming can both protect the ecological environment and generate economic benefits. For many years, his favorite TV programs have been the wealth-building programs on CCTV Channel 7 and the farmers' wealth-building programs on Zhejiang TV.
In 2005, Fang Jianjun and his wife gave up jobs they had held away from home for many years and returned to the village to engage in ecological special poultry chicken farming. Because they lacked experience and technology in their first attempt at farming, the several hundred free-range chickens they raised not only failed to make money but also cost them a lot. Unwilling to accept failure, he continued to invest in farming the next year, and this time he succeeded: more than 1,000 free-range chickens earned him twenty or thirty thousand yuan. Having tasted success, Fang Jianjun continuously expanded the scale of farming, and by 2008 the output value reached more than 100,000. The village's space was no longer enough for him to develop his farming business. In the end, he found this ecological valley far from human habitation below the Tongshan Dam to develop his farming career.
People who know Fang Jianjun well all say that he has become obsessed with raising special poultry. Sometimes, in order to catch wild chickens for breeding, he often walks for more than an hour in the mountains to look for them, bringing back some wild pheasants and other poultry for natural breed-style reproduction. He has the chicken breeds others have, and he also has those others do not. At the same time, he loves to use his brain, is willing to learn, willing to work hard, and bold, and once he sets his mind on something he never turns back and must succeed. Today he has become a special poultry farming king accompanied by mountains and waters.
Fang Jianjun told the reporter that at the very beginning, he was single-mindedly devoted to farming and thought every day about how to breed more types of special poultry. Later, after some friends from Hangzhou and other places came to his ecological valley farm, they were all attracted by the natural environment here and were reluctant to leave. So he thought he should give full play to the resource advantages here and develop it into a sacred place combining farming with leisure and summer retreat.
As for future development, pointing to the large area of ecological resources before him, Fang Jianjun ambitiously described his grand blueprint. In the next step, he not only wants to expand the farming scale here and breed more types of special poultry, so that more city people can eat "mountain delicacies and wild game" on the premise of not damaging the ecological environment, but also wants to replant the abandoned mountain land with various fruits, prop up the wild kiwi vines everywhere with frames to make it convenient for guests to pick, and build some small wooden cabins for guests to rest. In this way, guests staying here can climb mountains and pick wild fruits, sit on large rocks to watch waterfalls, or play with wild ducks in the stream...
But as the village committee director, and with his wife also a county people's congress representative, Fang Jianjun still does not forget the villagers while developing his own business. He said that Muhuakeng Village has more than 300 people and more than ten thousand mu of mountain forest, and he wants to pass on his farming experience to the villagers and lead everyone to become wealthy together.