The first organic poultry meat product in China produced

On September 24, Sanjiazhai Village in Zhijin County, Guizhou Province receive Certificate for their organic product from Nanjing Organic Food Development Center of SEPA, marking that the first Chinese organic poultry meat product has been produced in Guizhou Province.
In 2001, Sanjiazhai Village, characterized by fresh air, good quality water and fine forestry vegetation, began to raise broiler using the model of “growing grass for grazing poultry under forest” supported by “the Project of Canada Funded Guizhou Comprehensive Poor Alleviation”. Approved by authoritative institution, the broiler products produced in the village are harmful substances free including antibiotics, hormone, agricultural chemical residue and other harmful microorganism. Compared with other meat products, the poultry meat contains 38% lower cholesterol and 40%-60% higher calcium and phosphorus as well as 25%-65% higher zinc and selenium, etc.
At present, Sanjiazhai Village can produce 10000 organic broilers per year.

Source: www.gzagri.gov.cn