It is necessary to reflect on the fact that raising Loach does not make money this year.

The Loach market is relatively stable this year, and the sales price of Loach has reached more than 10 yuan per catty. Many farmers have achieved good results this year, but there are still many farmers who have not made any money or even lost money at all. Even if the selling price of Loach is only 8 yuan per jin, it can still make money.

What on earth is the problem? The level of culture benefit mainly depends on the market situation and the control of culture cost, and the largest proportion of culture cost is feed cost, which accounts for about 70% of the total cost. There are two important factors affecting feed cost: one is the seedling quality of Misgurnus anguillicaudatus, the other is feed quality.

According to the different growth stages, the special feed or fish feed with protein in 36-40% was selected for breeding Loach. Choose the feed factory with strength and good reputation to cooperate, from the old farmers can know which feed use effect is better, in order to ensure feed quality, which is one of the important links to improve the efficiency of breeding.

Another important factor that does not make money is the poor quality of Misgurnus anguillicaudatus seedlings, slow growth rate of Misgurnus anguillicaudatus seedlings, easy to occur diseases, low feed conversion rate and prolonged culture cycle.

From the situation of large-scale culture base and the author's experience of serving farmers in the countryside, it takes about 120 days for Taiwan Loach seedlings to be sold, and about 1.3 jin of feed can grow 1 jin of Loach. And some farmers, the breeding cycle of about 150 days, a jin of Loach feed consumption of more than 1.6 jin, so the cost of farming is much higher, it is more difficult to make money.

Why is this? On the one hand, the reason is that the feed quality is not good, on the other hand, what is more important is that the farmers blindly pursue low-cost seedlings, while ignoring that the seedling donors have no conditions to cultivate and optimize their parents, and buy the seedlings propagated with commercial Loach. Variety degradation directly leads to a longer feeding cycle and an increase in feed consumption. But this kind of situation mostly occurs in the new farmer, the old farmer no matter breeds the production or purchases the Loach seedling, has the rich experience, generally will not appear such a major mistake.