Early in the morning of October 18, 74-year-old Yang Shuhua got up. If the calculation is correct, the ewe in the family is going to give birth to lambs today.
Yang Shuhua lives in Laohe Village, Laohe Town, Tianquan County, and last year, the village's counterpart support unit, the Tianquan Tobacco Monopoly Bureau, sent two "poverty alleviation sheep" to Yang Shuhua's family, and as the two sheep slowly grew up, Yang Shuhua's life also changed.
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Thirteen sheep bring about change
"When this little lamb was born, I had thirteen sheep in my family." Yang Shuhua looked at the lamb kneeling under the ewe and trying to drink milk, and his eyes narrowed into a slit happily.
When the lamb had drunk enough milk, Yang Shuhua walked to the edge of the sheep pen and opened the door, and sheep of all sizes ran out of the sheep pen one after another, leisurely nibbling on the surrounding tender grass.
Yang Shuhua counted, exactly thirteen. He waved his arms and drove the sheep up the hill. Every morning, the sheep were driven to the mountains to graze, and at night, the sheep were driven back to the circle, and Yang Shuhua had a good life. He thought to himself that when the sheep grew fatter, he could rush to the market and sell them. At the current price, he can earn almost 1,000 yuan for a sheep.
"Last year the Tobacco Monopoly Bureau knew I would raise sheep and sent me two. Since I wanted to raise it well, I went to the market and bought a breeding sheep and a ewe. To this day, there are already thirteen sheep. Yang Shuhua held out a finger, "That was only born not long ago." You see, it's all that big. ”
Four sheep turned into thirteen sheep, allowing Yang Shuhua to see the hope of a better life, but the good life of Yang Shuhua's family was not only in these thirteen sheep.
Walk along the winding mountain road into the forest, where more than 20 beehives are neatly arranged. This is Yang Shuhua's "secondary industry" - beekeeping. Yang Shuhua's experience in beekeeping has also been decades, there are many wildflowers in the mountains, bees have places to pick flowers and honey, pure natural bee sugar is favored by the market, Yang Shuhua said with a smile that this year's harvest is not good, only more than 100 pounds of honey.
There are sheep and bees, and Yang Shuhua's days are getting more and more flavorful. In July this year, Yang Shuhua's family began to build a new house, and now the new house is about to be built.
Yang Shuhua's wife's face was full of smiles, greeting the guests who came to the house that day: "Today I have lunch at my house, I stewed chicken." ”
"Hematopoiesis" poverty alleviation brews happiness
Yang Shuhua is located in Laohe Village, Laohe Town, Tianquan County, 30 kilometers from Tianquan County. Most of the young and middle-aged people here go out to work, and the people who stay in the village are old people like Yang Shuhua.
Although Yang Shuhua now has a good life, before 2015, he was still a poor household with a record of lika. Speaking of today's good days, Yang Shuhua and his wife are most grateful to the helpers of the Tianquan Tobacco Monopoly Bureau who came to the village. "The sheep they sent were a great help to me at that time." Yang Shuhua said that not only did the Tianquan Tobacco Monopoly Bureau send sheep to itself, but also to other poor households in the village who had established archives and cards.
When the Tianquan Tobacco Monopoly Bureau came to Laohe Village to help, it was also called Daren Tobacco Village. After their arrival, they formulated a one-family one-policy help plan. Through visits to understand the development willingness of poor households, we helped poor households solve their development needs, and distributed a total of 32 boxes of bees and 6 sheep to poor households. Wang Xianfen, secretary of the party branch of Laohe Village, made statistics, and with the help of the Tianquan County Tobacco Monopoly Bureau, 8 of the 21 poor households that have set up files and cards have developed beekeeping industry, and two households have developed sheep farming industry.
With the steady development of the industry, the poor households in the establishment of the card not only took off the poverty hat, but the villagers also became more and more motivated, and the days became more and more prosperous, and the village in the mountains saw hope.
"This year, the overall honey harvest in the village is not bad, on average, each household has about 10,000 yuan, and the slightly lower ones have 7,000 or 8,000 yuan." The market price of mutton has also been very impressive in recent years, and I believe that it can also be sold for a good price this year. Wang Xianfen said.
Reporter: Lu nina