How much does leech farming cost?

Leech is a traditional special medicinal aquatic animal in China, living in rice fields, ditches, shallow water pollution potholes and other places, strong viability, addicted to human and animal blood, very agile, can swim in waves, and can also make ruler-like migration. in winter, it is often dormant in the inshore wet mud, so let's take a look at how much it costs to raise leeches.

How much does it cost to raise leeches?

The cost of leech breeding is mainly seedling expenses, leasing land, excavation base, building anti-escape net and so on. Take 5 mu of breeding area as an example, the capital of leased land is about 5000 yuan, the excavation base is about 4000 yuan, and the anti-escape net is about 3000 yuan. This part of the investment is about 12000 yuan. In addition to this fee, farmers also need to breed bait, the purchase cost of raw materials is about 3000 yuan. In addition, the most important thing for leech breeding is to grow leeches. The cost of 250kg is about 80,000 yuan, plus management fees of 12000 yuan, disinfection fees of 200 yuan and a small amount of water and electricity, and the upfront investment is about 100000 yuan.

How much money can you make from raising leeches?

Leeches are hermaphroditic and heterogamorphic, and each species of leech can reproduce. Generally, the species can reproduce 3 to 4 times a year, with an average of 4 eggs per year, and each egg cocoon can hatch more than 20 young leeches. Each species can reproduce 72 commercial leeches per year. There are about 150leeches per kilogram of live leeches, and the market price is 400yuan per kilogram of living leeches. The annual output value of each species of leeches is 27 yuan, and 25000 leeches are planted in 5 mu of land. The annual output value is more than 650000 yuan, deducting facilities, bait and other net profit of about 500000 yuan, such as the use of high-density, intensive production and breeding profits will be higher.

What are the advantages of breeding leeches?

The main results are as follows: 1. A wide range of provenances: leeches are docile and do not kill each other, which are distributed all over the country.

2. Grow faster: leeches eat more and grow faster, invest in that year and make a profit in that year.

3. Management is simple: leech culture and management is simple, and there is no problem without feeding or feeding water for three or five days.

4. The benefit is higher: the benefit of leech culture is relatively high, and the output value per mu is more than 30,000 yuan.

Matters needing attention in breeding leeches

1. Climate: the cultivation of leeches should pay attention to climate problems, such as the low summer temperature in the three northeastern provinces, and the short growth cycle and small individual growth of leeches should be considered if the southern wide-body golden leeches are introduced in the past.

2. Soil quality: for breeding leeches, attention should be paid to soil quality problems, such as reddish brown soil with too much iron is not suitable to build ponds, and soil areas with PH values less than 5 or higher than 9.5 are not suitable for digging ponds.

3. Water quality: breeding leeches should pay attention to the problem of water quality. the physical and chemical standards of water quality include temperature, salinity, oxygen content, PH value, water color, fertility and so on. Water source treatment should be considered for water sources that do not meet the regulations.

4. Site: leeches should pay attention to the site problem. Choosing a suitable breeding site is the premise of building a good breeding farm and raising leeches. It should be considered carefully and be economical, reasonable and safe as far as possible.

5, artificial: leech breeding should pay attention to artificial problems, leech breeding patrol pond must be more diligent than other types of aquaculture, to find individual death problems must immediately consider the problem and solutions.