Market Prospect of Earthworm Culture

The rise of earthworm farming has not only opened up a new source of animal protein feed for the development of livestock, poultry and aquaculture, but also found a new way for cities to purify the environment and deal with public hazards, and with the in-depth study of the physiochemistry of earthworms, it can also provide valuable raw materials for food, medicine and other industries. Therefore, the prospect of earthworm breeding is broad.

Earthworms can be used as pharmaceuticals. At present, the international market costs 8-150000 yuan per ton of dried earthworms, or even higher. According to analysis, earthworms contain a variety of medicinal ingredients, such as earthworm, earthworm antipyretic hormone, earthworm toxin, Huang Chuyin, antihistamine, choline, cholesterol, nucleic acid derivatives, B vitamins and so on. At present, lumbrokinase can be scientifically extracted from earthworms for the treatment of cerebrovascular infarction and other diseases, and lumbrokinase oral or injection has been put on the market. Experiments have proved that earthworms can be used for clinical treatment.

Earthworm is regarded as the best protein feed in the world, which is rich in nutritional value. Earthworm contains 18 kinds of amino acids, various minerals and vitamins. Therefore, earthworms can be used to cultivate aquatic products such as Loach and Monopterus Albus, which is helpful to increase the production of aquatic products. Earthworms can also be used to raise pigs, chickens and other poultry to improve their own nutritional value. Earthworms can also be made into earthworm powder as a growth agent for pigs. Raising pigs, chickens, ducks, rice field eel and Loach with earthworms not only grows fast and has good meat quality, but also costs less money.

Earthworms can also deal with municipal waste, purify the environment, accumulate fertilizers and so on, solving the problem of garbage disposal in various urban areas.

Thus it can be seen that breeding earthworms is a good way to get rich. The work of raising earthworms is not large, and one person can manage about 3-4 mu of land. It is suggested that the majority of farmers can use their spare time to develop earthworm breeding, which not only increases income for families, but also improves social benefits.