Camel Breeding Helps Increase Income

In Tuowanbagelege Village, Kepin County, Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang, the spring breeze was gentle. In the "delivery room" of the village camel breeding farm, some villagers were helping the breeder, Mijiti Tuohuti, with the delivery of camels. When they saw the little camel stand up shakily, the hearts that everyone had been holding in their throats finally settled down, and there was a scene of joy. "As the Spring Equinox approaches, the camels in our village's collective breeding project have just given birth to the 8th baby camel this year. With the increase in the village's collective income, we can do more practical things and solve more problems for the villagers," said Jiang Yong, the team leader and first secretary of the work team stationed in Tuowanbagelege Village, Kepin County from the Northwest Petroleum Bureau. Tuowanbagelege Village used to be a well-known poverty-stricken village in the county. The village has a population of 1,424 people, and the per capita cultivated land is only 2.2 mu. In 2017, the work team from the Northwest Petroleum Bureau came to the village to help with poverty alleviation. In 2019, the village achieved overall poverty alleviation, and the per capita income jumped to 12,000 yuan. In Tuowanbagelege Village, the labor force accounts for less than half of the total village population. Realizing rural revitalization faces constraints such as more people and less land, insufficient labor force, a single production structure, and poor natural conditions. The work team and the village's two committees take developing and expanding the village's collective economy as an important starting point for promoting rural revitalization. They implement measures according to the village's conditions and make efforts through multiple channels to increase income. Animal husbandry is one of the traditional advantageous industries in Kepin County. In the past two years, the work team stationed in the village and the two committees of the village have guided the villagers to improve and cultivate new varieties. Courtyard projects with camels, Hu sheep, farm orchard chickens, pigeons, etc. as the breeding objects have gradually become active in the village. In 2023, they obtained 250,000 yuan in project funds and used the preferential conditions such as the ten major support policies for the breeding industry in the county to help farmers expand the breeding scale. In February this year, the camel stock in the whole village alone increased from 800 in 2020 to 1,620. The average annual income of 12 farmers and herdsmen increased by more than 50,000 yuan. The work team stationed in the village consulted with the two committees of the village and established Xingbage Agricultural Development Company. On the one hand, they better help villagers with the will to breed actively develop breeding industries such as camels, cattle, and sheep; on the other hand, they used interest-free bank loans to buy 22 camels for the village to increase the collective income of the village by producing and selling camel milk. "Calculating based on the fact that one camel produces 3 kilograms of milk per day, these camels can increase the income of the village collective by 200,000 yuan this year," Jiang Yong introduced. "The establishment of the breeding farm in the village can also meet the villagers' wish to find employment at their doorsteps." In order to expand the income of the village's collective economy, Tuowanbagelege Village has taken back 35 mu of the contracted land in the village and planted new varieties of watermelons and the local characteristic crop. The products are very popular. A petrochemical micro-business district has been built, and the income has increased by nearly 50,000 yuan through leasing houses. In addition, by revitalizing the income from the transfer of the village's collective land and attracting work for village-run enterprises, it has also increased by 120,000 yuan year-on-year in 2023. "When the big river has water, the small rivers are full." Using the income of the village collective, the two committees of the village increased 15 mu of arable land by breaking ridges and increasing fields. Newly built, widened, and hardened the field mechanized farming roads, effectively improving the transportation conditions for agricultural production. Village-run enterprises such as the village breeding farm have attracted 27 villagers to find employment at their doorsteps, effectively guaranteeing the family income of the elderly and weak villagers. [1].< China News Service >. 骆驼养殖助增收 [Online News].2024.3.29. http://www.xj.chinanews.com.cn/dizhou/2024-03-29/detail-ihcyxqnr9168297.shtml This news is reprinted from Lianhe Zaobao. The copyright belongs to the original author. If there is any infringement, please contact for deletion. The company reprints this news to provide more information for users and does not represent the company's views and positions.