Going to the back yard of the mill with officials, he took a handful of rice chaff in his hand from its pile before showing it to them and saying it contained so much feed for chickens.

The rice chaff was mixed with a fair amount of rice bran, grass seed and blasted husk of rice, by-products from rice cleaning machines.

At that time a flock of sparrows fluttered away from the pile with signs of people.

Looking at the sparrows, the President said the officials were not good in its management and that the by-products were enough to feed 2,000 chickens.

The officials were deeply moved by what he said.

They could not regard the pile of rice chaff as chicken feed because they had always thought it was natural for a rice mill to be frequented by flocks of sparrows.

The President, however, saw the possibility of breeding thousands of chickens with rice chaff the moment when he had a look at its pile.

Since then a large number of chickens have been reared in rice mills throughout the country, as instructed by the President, getting many "chicken farms" for nothing.