Collective development helps poverty alleviation in Dahua

The collective sheep farm in Hongri village, Dahua Yao autonomous county, Hechi. [Photo/Hechi Daily]

The new poverty alleviation model of collective building, farming, and planting has promoted the development of local industries in Hongri village, Dahua Yao autonomous county of Hechi, helping lift 158 impoverished families out of poverty in three years.

This new model adopts unified seeding, training, insurance, feeding, and sale through rural organizations to effectively solve the long-term problems of restricting the development of industrial poverty alleviation, such as the lack of funds, venues, and technology for breeding.

Through the hard work of the government's poverty alleviation team, people of Hongri village began to develop in groups and established several poverty alleviation workshops for cattle, chicken, and sheep.

In the past three years, Hongri's poverty alleviation industry has flourished and people have increased their incomes. The used barren land now feeds 123 cattle and 7,000 chickens. The village collective economy reached 64,000 yuan ($9039.06) in 2018 and has doubled in 2019. The per capita income of people in Hongri village increased by more than 2,000 yuan, and the incidence of poverty fell from 24.48 percent to 1.42 percent.