Opening remarks
"Take back the lost time, take back the losses you have suffered!" In the golden autumn of October, Hainan, which has just experienced the heavy blow of super typhoon "Capricorn", all walks of life are racing against time to press forward and make every effort to promote the resumption of work and production after the disaster. During the National Day, the Hainan Provincial Financial Media Center opened a column called "I am on duty on National Day", showing the story of the resilience of the Hainan people to rebuild their beautiful homeland, and the moving scene of the return of "fireworks" from all walks of life.
Nanhai Net reporter Wu Yuewen
"The feed bin is full of material, and when you press this button, the chicken coop can be automatically fed, which is particularly trouble-free." On the morning of October 2, the reporter came to the "Wenchang Chicken Master" farm in Linmao Village, Gongpo Town, Wenchang City, and Fan Shuni, a farmer, was busy. During the National Day holiday, many people choose to travel, but Fan Shuni is concerned about 106,800 chicken seedlings and is still silently sticking to them. In Wenchang, there are many farmers who, like Fan Shuni, are still busy resuming production during the National Day holiday.
On National Day, Shirley Fan was busy at the chicken farm. Photo by reporter Wu Yuewen
In the chicken farm, Fan Shuni was so busy that her forehead was sweating. The reporter saw that the chickens were pecking in the automatic water trough. In another chicken coop, the chicks are kept warm by hot air from a fan. "Compared with traditional lighting, burning coal to keep the chicks warm and the air quality in the chicken coop is also better." Fan Shani said.
On September 6, super typhoon "Capricorn" hit Wenchang hard. Fan Shuni happened to sell the finished chickens from the farm, and the damage caused by the typhoon was not large. "The typhoon caused the town to be cut off from water, electricity and the internet for many days, and I repaired some of the damaged chicken sheds." In order to help farmers resume work and production as soon as possible, a few days after the typhoon, she used her own empty chicken shed to quickly cooperate with Hainan Chuanwei Wenchang Chicken Industry Co., Ltd. to incubate 106,800 chicken seedlings, and wait for farmers to rebuild the chicken shed, and then distribute them to cooperative breeding.
Chickens hatched by Shirley Fan. Photo by reporter Wu Yuewen
Fan Shuni is the leader of the Shuibei Village Committee of Gongpo Town, Wenchang City, and is famous as the "Wenchang Chicken Master" in the township. In 2018, Fan Shuni began to raise Wenchang chickens, and sold them after they were raised according to tradition. In recent years, she has been trained in the special skills of "Wenchang Chicken Master", and is proficient in the use of "Standardized Wenchang Chicken Breeding Method" and "Standardized Chicken Coop Breeding Environmental Control System", and her breeding operation skills and technology have been significantly improved, and then she has been recognized as "Wenchang Chicken Master". She was named the 2023 "Spokesperson of Characteristic Labor Service Brand Image".
"Double yolk eggs, deformed eggs, etc., cannot be used for seedling raising. Each qualified egg needs to be between 36-37 grams to be the best seedling. Fan Shuni told reporters. Today, Fan Shuni has 4 professional "upgraded" chicken greenhouses, each shed can raise 7,000 finished chickens, equipped with automatic feeding devices, thermostatic devices, etc. Fan Shuni said that after upgrading the traditional chicken coop to a standardized farm breeding model, the annual slaughter volume has increased from the original 28,000 to 84,000, and the efficiency has been greatly improved. She slaughtered a batch of more than 20,000 commercial chickens and obtained a net income of nearly 100,000 yuan.
On National Day, Shirley Fan was busy at the chicken farm. Photo by reporter Wu Yuewen
Feeding, water feeding, heat preservation, cooling, on the control panel of the farm, Fan Shuni can complete the breeding operation with one button, and can also operate or monitor through the mobile phone. Fan Shuni said that in addition to her farm, such standardized breeding farms with the blessing of black technology are currently being promoted in Baoluo Town, Jinshan Town and other places, and the blessing and optimization of digital agriculture have made Wenchang chicken breeding more stable in terms of slaughter volume and quality.
On National Day, Shirley Fan was busy at the chicken farm. Photo by reporter Wu Yuewen
Wenchang chicken is famous at home and abroad for its "crispy skin, tender meat and crispy bones". As early as many years ago, "Hainan chicken rice" with Wenchang chicken as an ingredient was popular in Southeast Asia. Today, the "coconut chicken soup" with Hainan coconut and Wenchang chicken as the main ingredients is not only favored by consumers in Hainan, but also flourished in Guangdong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang. A small egg gave birth to Wenchang chicken, and also gave birth to a national geographical indication product for Wenchang, and it also grew into a pillar industry of Wenchang with an annual output value of about 4 billion yuan. Since 2018, Fan Shuni has led 41 farmers to breed Wenchang chickens, and has slaughtered more than 4 million Wenchang chickens, with an output value of more than 150 million yuan and a cumulative net income of more than 10 million yuan.
In Wenchang, there are many villagers in towns and villages who, like Fan Shuni, have become rich by breeding Wenchang chickens, but this typhoon has hit many Wenchang chicken farmers hard. "For our farmers, we also want to revive the Wenchang chicken industry through our own efforts." Fan Shani said.