Huangyao Town, Guangxi: the breeding of Foe turtles has become a new way to get rich

At the Jigong Chong Buddha's turtle breeding base in Tianchangtun, Zhongdong Village, Huangyao Town, technicians are busy cleaning the pool and watering the Buddha's turtle to "bathe". In the pool, there are different ages of Buddha's E turtle crawling everywhere. The technician excitedly picked up a Buddha's E turtle and showed it to the author.

According to the technician Zhou Yongxi introduced, The breeding base as far as possible to maintain the environment and living habits of the turtle in the wild growth, The water in the pool is led from the mountain spring water to the fish pond placed before use, Make the water temperature, Microbes and so on are close to the wild; Feeding is mainly live fish, Not only increase the amount of movement of the turtle, Promote growth, Also make the turtle meat delicious.

The breeding base was established in July 2013, with a total investment of more than 3 million yuan, covering an area of about 800 square meters, with a breeding scale of 3500, mainly focusing on breeding turtles and selling turtle seedlings. At present, it is the largest breeding base of Buddha and E turtles in Hezhou City.

"We have encountered some breeding problems when opening a large-scale turtle farm in such an inland environment." Liu Ning, who is in charge of the breeding base, said that more than 100 turtles died at the beginning of breeding due to poor technology, and later more than 10 breeding turtles died for unknown reasons. In response to these problems, technicians send pictures to consult breeding seniors all over the country in the communication platform of the circle of friends breeding Buddha E turtles, while exploring solutions in breeding practice.

After three years of exploration and breeding, the base has sold about 2000 turtle seedlings at a market price of 150 yuan each, with sales reaching 300,000 yuan, and the economic benefits of long-term projects begin to appear.

Good economic benefits attracted the breeding interest of the surrounding masses, and the surrounding 25 households joined the breeding team five. The base not only provides turtle seedlings and technology to farmers, but also is responsible for recycling and selling turtle seedlings and finished turtles. "My family now has 40 turtles. The big ones are already four or five pounds!" Farmer Liu Daochuan confidently said, such as the production of turtle seedlings, there will be income.

"The Buddha's turtle we breed is not worried about sales, and orders from Guangdong and Zhejiang are increasing." According to Liu Ning, the next step, they are ready to set up a professional cooperative to increase breeding varieties, expand breeding scale, radiation drive more people to join the breeding team five.