The Wealth on the Tip of "Snake" Yongfeng Liu Ziqing "Dancing with Snakes" breaks new ground

Liu Ziqing (first from right) introduces snakes to merchants

Yongfeng County Zhongcun Township Reservoir Management Office, surrounded by green bamboo, spring water four seasons long flow, fertile soil rich in selenium, smoke, suitable for snake survival. Liu Ziqing took a fancy to the geographical environment here and began the road of raising snakes in this land.

When he saw Liu Ziqing, he was showing a group of non-local businessmen around his snake breeding base. He went on and on about his experience of raising snakes. He knows what kind of environment is most suitable for the growth of snakes, what is the health value of snakes, and which kind of snakes are the most aggressive.

Pry open the "snake door"

Liu Ziqing's bond with snakes starts from his experience. After graduating from university in 2004, Liu Ziqing went to Hangzhou to develop. At that time, e-commerce was booming. He seized the business opportunity and resolutely founded his own clothing brand, which was sold all over the world through Taobao. Within a year, his company's total annual sales reached more than 20 million.

But just as his business was booming, bad luck suddenly came. Long-term work stress and staying up late led to serious health problems. After seeking medical treatment for many times without success, he met an old traditional Chinese medicine doctor who runs a snake therapy clinic and began to try snake therapy. Half a year later, he fully recovered. This experience made Liu Ziqing see the business opportunities in the snake breeding and snake products deep processing industry. In 2013, he gave up his long-running clothing business and returned to his hometown to "dance with snakes".

Explore the "Snake way"

Because he had never come into contact with this industry, Liu Ziqing encountered a lot of difficulties in the process of starting a business, but he did not admit defeat. In August 2013, Liu Ziqing changed his identity and started a new business. In order to overcome his psychological fear of snakes, Liu Ziqing went to various snake breeding bases in Guangxi, Hunan, and Yunnan many times to practice and study, and discussed and studied with local famous teachers, professors, medical universities, and folk snake doctors. at the same time, he participated in snake-raising conferences held in various places.

Often walking by the river, how can you not wet your shoes? On one occasion, Liu Ziqing was accidentally bitten by a five-step snake and the pain rushed to his whole body. He immediately bound his left arm with a strip of cloth to prevent venom from flowing into his heart, and then treated it with external application of Chinese herbal medicine. "fortunately, measures were taken in time, otherwise the life would have been lost to the snake." Liu Ziqing said.

Through continuous exploration, Liu Ziqing has learned the techniques of feeding poisonous snakes, self-rescue of snake wounds, extraction of venom, incubation, hibernation and non-hibernating temperature control, prevention and treatment of snake diseases, and so on. become a real snake-raising expert in the industry. Now Liu Ziqing has re-established his own breeding team and network sales team, the company covers an area of more than 10,000 square meters, and has breeding rooms, incubators, baby snakes, feed preparation rooms, management rooms, and medicine rooms. It mainly breeds five-step snake, bungarodon, cobra, black snake and mouse snake, and drives more than 30 farmers around it, achieving annual sales of more than 10 million yuan.

Swear to be a "snakehead"

Liu Ziqing, who has been successfully farmed, has become a learning object for other farmers. In the exchange, Liu Ziqing found that the cost of many small farmers is on the high side, the breeding technology is not mature, there is no market voice, and it is possible to close down at any time. This situation worries Liu Ziqing. How to drive small and medium-sized characteristic farmers to increase their income and become rich together? Natural ecological farming, "company + cooperative + Internet" is the best way out.

In order to raise high-quality snakes, Liu Ziqing fed all wild Loach and Monopterus Albus when raising snakes. Even the mice eaten by snakes were raised with yellow powder insects, and each snake pond was particularly large, allowing snakes to move freely, move their muscles and bones, and improve the quality of snakes. "although the cost of feeding is high, snakes have better meat quality, higher medicinal properties, are very popular in the market, and the price is a bit higher." That's what Liu Ziqing said.

"at present, commodity snakes are very popular on the Internet, and cooperatives are also being handled. My wish is to drive the villagers to breed and earn money together." Liu Ziqing said that through the "company + cooperative + Internet" model, it specializes in breeding, processing, incubation and sale of snake seedlings, promotion of breeding technology, epidemic prevention services, and integration of commodity snake acquisition and processing. "in the next step, the company will continue to expand the scale of cooperatives, comprehensively promote green ecological farming, and form its own green brand. At the same time, it will be an ecological farm, specializing in popularizing snake food culture, and building an industrial chain of health products such as five-step snake wine. Strive to become the snake king of Jiangxi." When it comes to plans for the next step, Liu Ziqing is quite confident.