Andrew Chirenda is a farmer in Zvimba District,Mashonaland West Province,Zimbabwe.The 180 free-range chickens which he has raised for 200 days have brought him an income of $800.While this has brought immense joy to Chirenda himself,it's also good news for the whole area including the free-range chicken breeding demon-stration project guided by Chinese experts.
For Chinese poultry farmers,hatching and rearing poultry is not a problem;but for the vast majority of small and medi-um-sized farm owners in Zimbabwe,they lack professional equipment and scientific management techniques.It is not easy to improve the success rate of poultry hatch-ing and rearing.