China News Service, Aksu, Xinjiang, September 26 (Gou Jipeng Wang Anni) "Since raising camels, the whole family has no worries about food and clothing. Other people in the village have started raising camels as well." Keping County, Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang Elken Kadir, a big camel farmer in Tomaerike Village, Erqi Township, said that he has been raising camels for three years and he has been on the road to wealth by raising camels. He has purchased 200 acres of land and more than 500 sheep. In 2019, the family's annual income exceeded 500,000 yuan (RMB, the same below).

　　Keping County has harsh natural conditions and a large number of poor people. It was once recognized as a national poverty county.

In recent years, the county has guided villagers to develop characteristic aquaculture. Through a series of measures, the county has established an industrial chain model of "leading enterprise + farmer professional cooperative + farmer household", accelerated the promotion of characteristic aquaculture, and promoted farmers and herdsmen to increase their income and become rich.

In 2019, two poverty-stricken villages in Keping County withdrew, 288 households with 1,330 people were lifted out of poverty, and the whole county was lifted out of poverty.

At present, the number of camels in Keping County reaches 9,200 peaks. Large-scale, intensive, standardized artificial domestication and breeding have further developed and expanded the camel breeding industry.

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　　Elken Kadir's family has been engaged in camel breeding for three generations.

At present, he breeds 150 camels, and his annual income is about 200,000 yuan from the sale of camel milk.

"With the development of the economy, more and more people have become familiar with camel milk. Because of its unique nutritional value, it has been accepted by everyone, and more and more people are ordering. In the past two years, many customers have drove to order camel milk. , Very popular." Elken Kadir said.

On the same day, the reporter also ran into a customer Kasmu Rouzi who came to buy camel milk. He said: "For more than two years, our family has been drinking camel milk ordered from here. The whole family likes it."

　　Among the characteristic breeding industries in Keping County, camel breeding has developed rapidly.

At present, the county's camel inventory has reached 9,200 peaks. Large-scale, intensive, standardized artificial domestication and breeding have further developed and expanded the camel breeding industry.

In April this year, Keping County also invested in the construction of a camel breeding base, which is expected to produce more than 200 tons of camel milk and sell 120 tons of camel milk, with sales of 4.8 million yuan.

The breeding base has expanded the county's camel breeding scale, improved the production scale and product quality of camel milk products, and drove the surrounding farmers to engage in camel breeding and forage planting, and the effect of increasing income was obvious.

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