“Smallholder farming?”

Village Chief Ma was stunned for a moment, and looked at the overly excited student Zhai with a somewhat strange look.

However, Zhai thought that Village Chief Ma did not quite understand his plan, so he began to explain to Village Chief Ma in detail the feasibility of his planned "small-scale farming industry" and the difference between it and the traditional farming model.

"Village head, I think there aren't many people raising poultry and livestock in our village, right?"

"Not many. Now we mainly raise a few chickens, which we feed with millet and lay eggs for our own consumption. Occasionally, a few families raise pigs and kill them for the New Year."

"This shows that our village has not yet realized the economic value of small-scale farming... Of course, there is a certain difference between the small-scale farming I'm talking about and traditional farmer farming. Village chief, listen to me carefully!"

Student Zhai opened the plan on his laptop and started talking:

"The advantage of traditional breeding is that the investment cost is low and the effect is quick. But the disadvantage is that there is no scale and lack of channels... It is impossible to form a price advantage for farmers. The small-scale breeding industry I plan to build will have unified technical guidance, unified standardized breeding plans, unified sales or negotiation with sales channels...

"Village head, you may know that in the city, authentic native chickens are one or two times more expensive than farm-raised chickens. But the problem is that customers are not good at distinguishing the difference. If we develop our own unique scale of breeding, we can gradually form a fixed sales model... We can even create our own village brand in the future!"

Village Chief Ma looked at Student Zhai with increasingly strange eyes.

Student Zhai also felt that Village Chief Ma’s eyes looked strange… If you say it was surprise, it didn’t seem like it; if you say it was admiration, it was a bit creepy… Anyway, it didn’t seem like he was shocked by his own plan.

Village Chief Ma thought for a moment and called out, "Well, accountant, come here!"

After the accountant came over, Village Chief Ma said to Zhai: "Captain Zhai, regarding the matter of poverty alleviation, I think you may not know enough about our place. Well, Xiaojian, take Captain Zhai down to have a look..."

"Okay!" The accountant nodded and turned around to ride his bike over, but after thinking for a moment, he turned back and asked, "Village head, what does Captain Zhai want to see?"

"Captain Zhai wants to see our breeding industry!"

“Ohhhh!”

Soon, the accountant drove the office car of Feima Village, a small three-wheeled vehicle that ran on gasoline, to the front of the village party committee and shouted, "Captain Zhai, let's go. I'll show you our breeding here!"

Student Zhai sat on the tricycle in confusion, and was quickly pulled by the accountant to the foot of a fenced-off hill. From a distance, student Zhai heard the sound of chickens crowing.

The accountant ran to the shed at the foot of the mountain and shouted, "Brother Bai San, our village's new poverty alleviation cadre wants to come and see your breeding grounds!"

"Welcome! Welcome! You have poverty alleviation cadres in Pegasus Village now!"

"I heard that he is a top student at Jinghai University!"

“This is incredible…”

They were chatting happily, but Zhai was looking at the chickens grazing on the hilltop, feeling a faint sadness in his heart - he finally understood why Village Chief Ma looked at him so strangely.

If it were me, I would probably have a weird look in my eyes too.

But you can’t blame me for not investigating it clearly... Who knew that you guys have grown chicken farming on such a scale?

I'm a newcomer to your "poor village", it's incredible that I know about such things!

Student Zhai took a deep breath of the smell of chicken manure in the air, and felt that as an excellent student in a prestigious university, he should be able to come up with some constructive suggestions even if there was already a large-scale chicken farming industry here.

"You already have a chicken farming industry here?"

"Yes! This is the trump card industry of our Xiaobai Village, the mountain-running castrated chickens! Especially the mountain-running castrated hens, which are a specialty of our Yunnan Province!"

"Mountain-run castrated hens?" This term made Zhai stunned for a moment. He couldn't help asking, "Then is your product different from ordinary chickens? Do you have a price advantage?"

"Hey! It's just so-so, just a little bit more expensive. In fact, you can buy it in the Tianya Village Fresh Supermarket here, it's only 20 yuan per pound, it's really not sold at a particularly high price."

"ha?"

After all, Zhai is involved in poverty alleviation work and has learned about the current market price of live chickens. The price of live chickens in 2007 increased by more than 20% compared to 2006... but in fact it only increased from 5 yuan per catty to 6 yuan.

Of course the price at the vegetable market will be higher. Some chickens sold under the name of "local chicken" that you don't know if they are real or not are also priced at more than 10 yuan per catty. But you sell them... for 20 yuan per catty?

“Is it selling well?”

Student Zhai asked again unconvinced.

"That's...very popular! You don't know, many bosses like our chickens very much. The latest breed we have trained is the Mountain Hen King No. 1. It is plump, tender, sweet and juicy. Although it is 50% more expensive than ordinary breeds, the production volume cannot keep up with the demand!"

"Can you research new varieties?"

Student Zhai was stunned.

"Of course!" Xiaobai Village Secretary said as a matter of course, "We have a professional meat and poultry agricultural research institute in Tianya Township!"

"What? What is this... Meat and Poultry Agricultural Research Institute?"

The last time Zhai heard such a term was in college.

No, how could this term that only appears on paper appear in a small mountain village like yours? Why did you even open a meat and poultry agricultural science research institute just for your chickens?

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