Breed small snails to open up a big market

In the early morning of September 6, Liu Kuansheng, a farmer in Xiangshui Town, Xiangshui County, did a business and helped an enterprise in Beijing contact 5 tons of live white jade snails for deep processing. Liu Kuansheng has been engaged in snail production and marketing for more than 20 years, adhering to the model of "association + cooperative + company + peasant household", vigorously developing snail industry, leading farmers to become rich together, and turning small snails into a big industry.

Liu Kuansheng "tied the knot" with snails in the 1980s. "White jade snail meat is white and delicate, high in protein and low in fat, low in breeding cost and simple in management. It is the traditional raw material of French and other countries." Liu Kuansheng believes that Baiyu snail is an excellent courtyard circular agriculture and low-carbon economy agricultural project, and the market space is huge, so it plunges into this industry.

After years of development, Liu Kuansheng not only raised snails himself, but also established a snail breeding base in Xiangshui and joined the China Snail Industry Association. He signed a minimum protection price recovery contract with farmers, who are responsible for breeding, and the association is responsible for free technical guidance and cash recovery of all products.

Led by Liu Kuansheng, many farmers in Xiangshui have also embarked on the road to prosperity by raising snails. In 2012, he cooperated with others to set up a professional cooperative for snail breeding in China Snail Baiyu. Dozens of farmers raised snails in Youai Village and Hepu Village, Shuanggang Town, Xiangshui County, with an average annual income of more than 5000 yuan. "Last week, I joined the co-operative and wholeheartedly followed Boss Liu to raise snails and get rich." Shen Youjun, a villager of Hepu Village, said happily that more than 10 farmers joined the cooperative with him, and everyone was full of confidence in the future.

Liu Kuansheng said that Baiyu snails are in great demand at present, and the cooperative is prepared to develop products such as frozen meat, snail sauce, easy-pull food and tourism food, so as to increase the added value of snails and create greater economic benefits.