China News Service Hami, December 13 (Xinhua) -- From cooperatives to sales cabinets: the "past and present" of a cup of camel milk
Written by Chen Xinyi.
Custody of the camel here, and give me a dividend of 1,000 yuan (RMB, the same below) every year. It's good to put it here, you need to take care of it yourself, it's not easy to do it when you're sick, and it's easy to be eaten by wolves. At the Xiamaya Zhonghe Camel Breeding Professional Cooperative in Yiwu County, Hami City, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, 60-year-old farmer Keremu Wuji said.
Krem Wuji lives in the New Silk Road community next to the cooperative, and in addition to hosting his 20 camels, he also works at the cooperative and is responsible for the quarantine of camels. In addition to the income from the care of the camels, he was able to receive an additional salary, four thousand yuan per month. Even though he has reached retirement age, Kremu Wuji feels that he is in good health and hopes to continue working.
The president of the cooperative, Nur Aili Kasim, said that the Zhonghe camel breeding professional cooperative was established in 2014, and the main business is professional camel breeding and fresh camel milk sales, the cooperative has a breeding base of 3,000 square meters, and there are more than 900 camels in the existing herd, of which more than 60% come from the surrounding Xiamaya Township, Weizixia Township and other places of farmer trusteeship. Since 2015, the cooperatives have paid a total of nearly 400,000 yuan in dividends to the villagers of Xiamaya.
On December 12, in the Xiamaya Zhonghe Camel Breeding Professional Cooperative in Yiwu County, Hami City, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, President Nur Aili Kasim worked in the breeding base. Photo by China News Service reporter Yang Kejia.
Camels are full of treasures, camel hair can be used to make clothes, camel skin can be made into bags, the most precious is camel milk, the market price of a bucket of camel milk powder is as high as about 700 yuan, and it is still the main income of most camel farmers.
Zhonghe Camel Breeding Cooperative is a national demonstration base for dairy camel breeding standardization. In the ** room of the cooperative, majestic Bactrian camels are lining up to "enter".
It looks so big, but I'm afraid of people, and when there are too many people, I won't be milked. Only when we were around, because the camels knew us well. "Umuti Tolewuhan and her husband both work in the cooperative, her husband is responsible for driving camels, she is in charge of **, and the couple can earn 10,000 yuan a month combined.
On December 12th, in the ** workshop of the Zhonghe Camel Breeding Professional Cooperative in Xiamaya, Wumuti Torewu Khan was giving camels. Photo by China News Service reporter Yang Kejia.
The camel milk produced in the Zhonghe Camel Breeding Cooperative will be sent**?
At the door of the safety inspection workshop of Xinjiang Zhongtuo Biotechnology Co., Ltd., milk trucks lined up. Usually the cooperatives use milk trucks to deliver milk, and they send fresh camel milk into buckets. The professional quarantine personnel of China Camel will sample and test the camel milk, and the indicators will be sent to the production workshop after passing the indicators, and the camel milk of 8 kg to 9 kg can only be made into 1 kg of camel milk powder.
China Camel Biotechnology Co., Ltd. is an enterprise from Henan Province that aids Xinjiang. Zhao Junli, the company's chairman, said that when he first arrived in Xinjiang, it was not smooth to collect milk from herdsmen, and no one trusted him as an "outsider". Later, the company tendered to 600 camels to distribute to the people, a head only needs to pay 1,200 yuan, the camel milk produced after testing and passing all to the market price of 5 yuan per kilogram of ** purchase, the average annual income of herdsmen per camel can reach 15,000 yuan. If the herdsman buys camels from other places, the company also provides 5,000 yuan to help them. "In this way, we achieved 'from nothing'. From not having a drop of milk, it can now produce about 7 tons of camel milk every day, driving more than 2,000 farmers and herdsmen to increase their income. ”
On the sales display cabinet of Zhongluo, there are a variety of products. There are fermented camel yogurt, camel milk shower gel, five-grain camel milk biscuits, etc. Camel milk powder is also divided into different types: primary, middle, organic...It is suitable for customers with different needs and body types. According to Guo Linyuan, an employee, through in-depth cooperation with major universities and scientific research institutes, China Camel Biotechnology Co., Ltd. has improved the "scientific and technological content" of camel milk, and has relied on the production and sales strategy of deep processing and refinement to make camel milk accepted and loved by more people and enter thousands of households.
On December 13th, in the outer packaging workshop of China Camel Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Tohuti Khan Keremu was working on the production line. Photo by China News Service reporter Yang Kejia.
Former housewife, 55-year-old Tohuti Krem now works as a canning of camel milk powder on the production line. In China Camel Biotechnology Co., Ltd., there are many ethnic minority workers like her. "It's hard work, but I feel like I'm having a head in my life. Tohuti Khan Krem said. (ENDS).