Tengchong Community Livestock Development and Biodiversity Conservation Project
Location: Tengchong, Baoshan City, Yunan Province
No. of Recipients households: 200
No. of pass-on families: 200
Bordering with Burma, Tengchong is located in western Yunnan Province, it comprises 18 townships and 224 villages, and has an agricultural population of 0.48 million. At the end of 2005, 58,500 people’s annual income was below RMB668 (USD84) (RMB668 is the poverty line in China), accounting for 12% of the total agricultural population; Eighty-four percent of the county land is mountainous, and 16% of the county land is flat or river valley.
Convenient transportation and sharing a border with Burma provides a boom market for agriculture and animal products in Tengchong County. However, drug trafficking, drug-abuse and HIV/AIDS are spreading in the county. Currently in Tengchong, drugs brings insecurity to society and community, and HIV/AIDS is in the process of spreading from the high-risk population to the general population.
This project will provide pigs, goats, sheep, buffalo (for milk, meat and draft power) and cattle to 200 poor households in Tengchong County. Tengchong County Bureau of Animal Husbandry (BAH), the project partner, will provide animal management and productivity training. In order to achieve social harmony and to protect the local environment, Heifer will provide several trainings. These include biodiversity conservation, the Cornerstones, gender equity, HIV/AIDS prevention, drug abuse prevention and natural resource management. Project farmers will form self-help groups to facilitate project monitoring and evaluation. Another 200 families will benefit from “passing on the gift.”
