Raise a stone frog mountain to become an expert in 6 years.

Among the tranquil mountains, the streams are gurgling and the trees are lush. In a large courtyard on the shore, there were bursts of "goo-goo" frogs. To Xu Xiaolei, this may be the most beautiful voice in the world.

"over the past six years, all my thoughts and energies have been devoted to this little stone frog," Xu Xiaolei said. his efforts live up to his efforts and finally look forward to a successful day.

Xu Xiaolei, 37, a native of Xikou Tingxia in Fenghua, moved to Xiwu with his parents when he was a child because of reservoir immigrants. As soon as he graduated from junior high school, Xu Xiaolei came out to make a living, repaired motorcycles, drove minibuses, worked as a painter, and later worked as a driver in an office unit in the city.

With a stable job, Xiao Xu's entrepreneurial heart has not been "safe." He thought that when he opened a restaurant, the stone frogs in the mountains still flocked to them because of their high health and nourishing value. "now there are fewer and fewer stone frogs in the wild. Can I keep this baby?".

In 2011, Xu Xiaolei visited some farmers in Siming Mountain and Jinhua, and then rented a piece of land in Longguan Li Village, Yinzhou, and began to build ponds to divert water from streams and try to breed stone frogs.

Recently, the reporter came to Xu Xiaolei's stone frog breeding ground in Li Kui. In five shallow pools, litters of stone frog tadpoles swim, larger than frog tadpoles, with black stripes on their yellowish-brown body surface. The other row of houses is the breeding ground of stone frogs. Lift an asbestos tile, the bottom suddenly jumped out of groups of strong frogs. Xiao Xu said that these tadpoles were hatched in April or May this year and are growing well. Wild stone frogs have ant eggs on their skin, which need to be temporarily raised for half a year to completely "detoxify" before they can mate. They like wet and dark environments and must be clean living water. The conditions for growth and breeding are very stringent.

Xu Xiaolei said, "I thought it was not difficult to raise stone frogs, but I invested hundreds of thousands of yuan in the first two years. None of them came out and all died." Later, through the aquaculture department, he and his father went to a farm in Anji, Huzhou, to "worship their teachers and learn their skills." "they only introduced some basic knowledge, but they refused to disclose any of the key breeding techniques, and it was up to us to figure it out by ourselves," Xu Xiaolei told the reporter. He and his father went to Anji seven times, and even brought back the whole trash can of the farm there. According to the bags discarded inside, we analyzed what kind of feed stone frogs eat and what medicine to use for disease prevention. Consult experts from the fishery department and try again and again. Conquer the technical essentials bit by bit.

In spite of this, the process of raising frogs and starting a business is still full of twists and turns and hardships. One year, near the Spring Festival, a torrential rain, pouring down the stream mixed with sediment impurities, the purchase of 500 pairs of frogs were wiped out overnight. "I put a dead frog in a woven bag and carried it to the garbage station at the foot of the mountain. I felt a pain in my heart," Xu Xiaolei choked up as he recalled the scene at that time. Later, he drilled a well more than 10 meters deep, purified and filtered the landscape and then pumped it into the aquaculture pond to solve the hidden danger at the source.

Stone frogs are dormant for nearly half of the year, and it takes three years for a small tadpole to grow into a commercial frog weighing about 150 grams. This is a long boiling period. In the past six years, Xu Xiaolei and his family have invested nearly 4 million yuan before and after raising frogs, and a lot of money has been borrowed. "there is no turning back arrow when opening a bow!" He told reporters that fortunately, through continuous experiments in the past two years, he has developed a suitable feed to control the growth environment, so that the survival rate of stone frogs from hatching and tadpole metamorphosis to small frogs and adult frogs is more than 90%. The more you raise, the more confident you will be.

The hard work finally paid off. At the end of last year, the first batch of commercial frogs raised by Xu Xiaolei went on the market one after another, selling nearly 1000 kilograms to supply the surrounding farm music. He took the reporter into the adult frog breeding base in Qingyuan Village, where a culture pond of more than 170 square meters could raise more than 6000 frogs, all of them lively and lively. Xu Xiaolei said that it is expected that by the end of this year, 2500 kilograms of commodity frogs will be on the market. "We have established a cooperative relationship with customers in Hangzhou and Yuci region, so there is no need to worry about sales."

In Ningbo, the number of farmers raising stone frogs is less than double digits, and few have succeeded. At present, Xu Xiaolei's stone frog farm is the largest and the highest survival rate in the city. It has bred 40,000 small frogs, and there are 80,000 to 90,000 adult frogs in the field. His breeding achievements have also attracted the attention of the municipal science and technology department. At present, Xu Xiaolei is expanding the site and plans to move the nursery down the mountain in autumn to facilitate management. "I want to raise stone frogs better, so that more citizens can taste the delicacy of this precious mountain." (reporter Yu Jianwen)

(original title: Fenghua boy's hard way to start a business: raising a frog in 6 years)