Since 2022, Menggongshan Village in Yitang Town, Lengshuitan District, Yongzhou has invested four million CNY in transforming the idle land into ostrich breeding farms, and spent 500,000 CNY of collective economy support fund to secure shares. The village can gain 30,000 CNY of dividends every year, and each villager can obtain a land rent at 400 CNY per mu (0.0667 hectares). This has provided the local farmers with a new way to increase their income and become prosperous. The photo shows a farmer breeding ostriches in Mengongshan Village. (Photo/Gu Pengbo and Jiang Jing)

Since 2022, Menggongshan Village in Yitang Town, Lengshuitan District, Yongzhou has invested four million CNY in transforming the idle land into ostrich breeding farms, and spent 500,000 CNY of collective economy support fund to secure shares. The village can gain 30,000 CNY of dividends every year, and each villager can obtain a land rent at 400 CNY per mu (0.0667 hectares). This has provided the local farmers with a new way to increase their income and become prosperous. The photo shows a farmer breeding ostriches in Mengongshan Village. (Photo/Gu Pengbo and Jiang Jing)

This article is from the Hunan Provincial Government www.enghunan.gov.cn.

Translator: Pang Yuehui

Chinese source: hunantoday