"reporter takes the floor."
From the town of qinglongzuo to the north along the 251 provincial road, about 5 km, it reached the village of the west river. This small village, surrounded by mountains, is passing through a stream of streams, with the greenest of the mountains and the greenest of the mountains。
"our village is not only beautiful, but also famous for leeches." on 3 june, under the leadership of zhang shao liang, secretary of the western river party, journalists came to the semi-heating cold shed of toshihang agricultural company ltd., where they saw a line of drains of leeches that were grown this year。
"don't look at them as scary, but they're treasures!" the head of the company, zhang dong-dong, was doing routine maintenance while introducing to the press: “we raise broad-body gold wires, not the `breathworms' that people remember. A tanned gold wire can be used as chinese medicine.”
Zhang jidong showed the journalists the golden leeches. Reporter sina
The wide body of gold wire is a non-blood-smoking leeches. It usually has a hammer, a sharp front, a wider back, a long 60 to 130 mm long, a dark brown back, fed mainly by snails, and sold with live seedlings or drying. The wide luminous leeches after drying up have the effect of breaking the blood cycle, bruises and swelling。
In 2020, zhang was introduced by a friend of zhang's from the east, who began to contact gold leeches. “in the first year, we tried to buy 125 kg of seedlings, when the market was doing well, and the price of a kilo of dried leeches was nearly $2,000.” zhang jidong said。
"we grow seedlings in may every year and sell them in about six months." zhang jidong described the stringent requirements for water quality, environment and temperature in raising leeches. “as a rule, winter temperatures are higher in the south and are more suitable for winter leeches. However, after practice, it has been discovered that gold wires stop eating when the water is too hot, and that the climate of the blue dragon is characterized by a summer without cool summer and a much worse day and night temperature, where the gold wires raised can be fed day and night, grow faster and become more solid and popular with the pharmaceutical industry.”
After several years of exploration and development, the size of east china agricultural company ltd. Is also growing. Currently, the company covers 2,000 acres and has 450 farming pools. “each pool will contain 1. 5 kg of gold-lined eggs in the spring, yielding 20 to 22. 5 kg of dry leech. Because the leeches we raise are of good quality and good quality and sell, there will be pharmacies at the end.” according to zhang, the company's annual sales amounted to nearly tens of millions in 2024。
While growing up, zhang jidong is thinking about the way forward. “we have rented four new sheds this year in order to explore the winterization technology of the leeches north, which, if successful, will significantly reduce the cost of farming.” at the same time, the company will intensify its cooperation with pharmacies, develop high-value-added products through multiple channels, promote the formation of an industry-wide chain of “breeding, breeding, processing, research and development” and work towards making gold leeches a specialty of sustainable development in the west river village, giving new impetus to mass lynch and rural development。
