Along with the early winter warm sun, the yuen and eel farming base in the eastern village of cao tsao, located in the town of cho, ningmao county, is in the middle of the sun, and he is cleaning up the net by the pond and dozens of big red roosters are gathering and eating。
“the leeches are generally raised in the summer, and must now be put in a sunken pond to keep the bottom of the pond breathing, and to adjust the pits for next year.” as a result, he was able to build a web of cages and tell stories about his own entrepreneurship。
Prior to raising the leeches, renwei, like other small partners, went to the south to work for money, to work in the south, to work in the bed, to run logistics, to teach and to open a milk and tea shop. However, his modest income and feelings under the host fence kept him from hope. In 2012, ren wei returned home from marriage to open a cosmetic shop with his wife, who, in partnership with his friends, invested $1. 2 million in three consecutive cosmetic shops in county and townships。
In 2017, after reading the news on the internet about the enrichment of leeches, ren wei, who was looking for a way to make money, was moved. He immediately went to jiangsu-seok to study at a farm. One week of study, 65,000 yuan of “transfer costs” were paid, and renwei began to go home for a trial. At that time, he had bred 20,000 tails of leeches with glass in the room on the second floor of his home, working for six months without earning money. In 2018, he was able to learn how to raise leeches, and invested over $100,000 in two sheds, raising 400,000 tails of leeches and earning $120,000 a year。
For almost two years, more than 200,000 dollars were thrown in vain, without money, and they were the object of ridicule。
The leeches have high medicinal value and broad market prospects, and must be enriched by raising leeches. The loser ren wei began his third time as a “supra”, when he went to xuzhou to learn how to raise leeches in cages. In retrospect, we saw the size of xuzhou's production of more than 100 acres and its annual income of millions. And when he did so, he made his secret decision: that one can succeed, and so can i。
In 2019, renwei rented a waste pond at the eastern head of the village of cao tsao in order to re-plan the development of a pond for the production of water. Tenants, equipment and seedlings were purchased, and renwei invested more than $400,000, raising more than 2,000 cages of gold wire, making a net profit of over $100,000。
"this time i see hope, i'm strong, tired and happy." the black-faced ren wei smiled, saying that the leeches, commonly known as the larvae, had long-term short-lived, fast-growing, adaptable characteristics, and that the feed was dominated by the snails。
In april of each year, he and his younger brother began to grow: the adult leeches lay for 22 days, hatch for 20 days and grow for 50 days. It was not until mid-june that young people would actually start raising their leeches until they were in the pond. During this period, he has also had to fix the ponds with stitches, clean ponds, water, disinfection and water, and every link must not be taken lightly. The leeches were about 120 tails, fed the snails once every three days and three times had to be replaced with a cage。
"so raising leeches requires a lot of workers, and we need 30 or 40 workers each time we change cages, and we pay more than 20,000 bucks at a time." picking up the new cage, then cleaning out the snails of the old cage and cleaning the cage for next change. Leach farming is very demanding in terms of water quality and is cumbersome and labour-intensive in terms of feeding, re-netting, lifting ponds and disinfection。
In the current year, the 400,000-tailed leeches harvest of renwei was about 5700 pounds, and he earned about 670,000 yuan per kilogram this year, with a net income of 3. 4 million, excluding costs。
The success of entrepreneurship, ren wei, has not been enthralled in joy, and has begun to scale up through the “cooperative + farm + farmer” model, based on the existing scale of farming, in line with the model of doing business in the field, in order to achieve a larger scale of industrial farming, constantly stretching the industrial chain and sharing it with the rural communities. Joe from the village of joe house, under the direction of ren wei, raised a pond of leeches this year with a net income of $560,000。
In order to encourage more rural families to become rich by raising leeches, the cpp government is also seeking ways to support renwei. As a result of land conditions, it has been difficult to scale up, and this year he has tested four blade-breeding ponds, which can be set at random and no longer require digging ponds, with an investment of approximately $1,500 in one pool, which is well suited for rural leeches。
“it is better to do well, and i hope to expand leeches through cooperative development that will lead to more people becoming rich, and that i can provide technical services free of charge.” wei wei, who is very efficient in raising leeches, and the nearby villagers, who come to study, will share their stories and tell you about the techniques and experiences of growing leeches。
