Lu Changjun: leeches develop "soft gold"

In the same rice field, Lu Changjun, a big grain grower in Yuemiao Village, Wanshan Town, Lujiang County, changed a "planting" method this year-- "planting" leeches and turning this daunting blood-sucking bug into a "treasure." To his surprise, one mu of leeches sold for 60 mu of rice.

On September 17, when the wind was sunny and the breeze was blowing, I walked into Lu Changjun's family farm, with rice fields out of sight on one side, and leeches swimming like standard cages and ribbons on the other. A beautiful scene in sight of a bumper harvest came into view.

Lu Changjun transferred 260 mu of land last year and started planting rice, with a total output of more than 200,000 kilograms. But the young Lu Changjun is not a "quiet" peasant. At the beginning of this year, the nimble man accidentally learned about the good prospect of leech breeding on the Internet. "I checked the relevant data and learned that leeches belong to special medicinal aquatic animals, commonly known as leeches, known as' soft gold,'so they vacated 20 mu of rice fields and converted them into leech breeding ponds. "

"Leech is full of treasures, can extract anticoagulants, in recent years, the medical application is very broad, and the market gap is large, the prospect is good, the price also continues to rise. As he spoke, Lu Changjun reached out to the field, and several khaki leeches with brown lines stretched out in the palm of his palm.

He pulled his finger and calculated an account: from the point of view of the breeding site, the production of 100000 leeches per mu is about 400kg. According to the current market price of 160 yuan per kilogram, the profit this year is more than 60, 000 yuan. Except for labor and cost, growing rice can only make a profit of about 1000 yuan per mu.

"Leech this raw material is very scarce in various pharmaceutical companies, breeding leech production cycle is very short, three and a half months on the line. As long as you raise the leeches, you don't have to worry about the market. "Lu Changjun said," with the support of agricultural and commercial banks, I invested 600000 yuan in breeding leeches. According to a conservative estimate, there is no problem with a net profit of 1.3 million yuan this year. "