Lotus field crayfish lotus farmers earn 600,000 yuan a month

"now is the time to eat lobster. The lobster crawled out of the lotus root field earns me 20,000 yuan a day!" On June 1, Chen Xiyu, a lotus root farmer in Xiaojia Village, Guanghu Town, Baoying County, was beaming with joy. In the past half a month, more than 300 jin of lobster has been sold to the market in his hundreds of mu of lotus root fields every day.

After growing lotus root for more than 20 years, Chen Xiyu's current income is unthinkable before. In Baoying, although lotus root is a characteristic traditional industry, it is restricted by planting technology and varieties, and the benefit is only mediocre. When the harvest is bad, it will lose money from time to time.

At that time, the price of lobster was not high, but it also brought Chen Xiyu an unexpected income. This made him smell the business opportunity of raising lobster in lotus root field. In 2005, he tried to raise lobster in his 100 mu lotus root field for the first time. 20 kg of lobster was planted in each mu of lotus root field. Without putting bait, the lobster catch exceeded 45 kg per mu that year, and the output value per mu reached more than 1000 yuan. This made him overjoyed.

But things won't always be plain sailing. One year, Chen Xiyu found that the lotus root seedlings in several mu of lotus root fields withered and died. after examination, he found that the lotus root germinated from April to May every year, and the plants were young, but at this time the lobster was in a prosperous period, and they would clip off the lotus root plants. it eventually led to the death of lotus root seedlings. After that, he changed the lobster fishing time, not only to make the lobster on the market, but also greatly reduce the loss of lotus root.

After more than 10 years of exploration, Chen Xiyu has summed up a set of mature "lotus root field lobster culture technology", and the annual income has more than doubled than in the past.