Guangdong female self-taught eel culture has succeeded in getting rich for nearly half a year.

After Liu Qiumei became rich, she continued to take care of her own vegetable market.

There are many stories in Goose City.

We will soon arrive at International Working Women's Day, the "March 8th". With the all-round development of economy and society, women receive more and more applause in life and in the workplace. In the villages and towns of Huicheng District, many experts at getting rich are hardworking and simple rural women who dare to think and dare to work. They have laughter and tears on their way to pursue their dreams, but they have never thought of giving up. Liu Qiumei, a villager of Henghe Village, Ma'an Town, Huicheng District, is such a woman who runs on the road of building a dream forever. at the age of nearly 50, after eight years of hard struggle and hard work for her ideal, she has broken out a way to get rich by raising soft-shelled turtles and eels.

Take a part-time job to learn skills and start an eel farm

Time goes back to 1998, when Ma'an watermelons hit the Guangdong market season. At that time, Liu Qiumei was just an ordinary rural woman, growing green vegetables and watermelons in her fields. Liu Qiumi often looks at her family's one-third mu of melancholy: she works hard all the year round, but the family's economy is still stretched. Liu Qiumi felt as if she had swallowed a green fruit, feeling bitter and astringent, and she was not reconciled to it.

"I'm still young, and I can't just spend my whole life in Qingqing in the countryside." Liu Qiumi did what she said and began to learn about the agricultural product market information. She saw a business opportunity in Ma'an watermelon sales. She contracted more than 50 mu of wasteland in Henghe Village, Ma'an Town, and tried to grow "Black Beauty" out-of-season watermelons introduced by Taiwan. She got the first bucket of gold in her life with her husband.

After 2000, more and more people grow watermelons on the market, and out-of-season watermelons have lost their competitiveness. Liu Qiumei began to think again and look for a new way out. "at that time, there were Taiwanese businessmen raising soft-shelled turtles and eels in the village on a large scale. Some villagers worked on farms and could earn more than NT $1000 a month, which was much more profitable than farming." Liu Qiumi won the opportunity to work on a farm and learned some basic farming skills. In her spare time, she also read a large number of books on breeding eels and soft-shelled turtles, encouraged each other with her husband, and strived for the ideal of owning her own farm. In 2007, they finally owned their own eel farm, and their entrepreneurial dream gradually became a reality.

Teach the "secret books of fish farming" to the villagers

Like all entrepreneurs, Liu Qiumei must learn to face sudden frustrations and blows. At that time, there were no artificial seedlings, and all the seedlings purchased were natural seedlings in the market. Due to lack of breeding experience, the seedlings purchased by Liu Qiumei and his wife twice in succession were "wiped out." more than 2000 seedlings were put in, and the borrowed money was spent, which dealt Liu Qiumei a blow in the face.

The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth. Liu Qiumei, who has a tenacious personality, did not give up. The experience and lessons of failure told her that in order to ensure the survival rate of seedlings, she must pay attention to the quality of seedlings when choosing and purchasing. Liu Qiumei initially explored a new way of raising eel. She constantly searched for relevant knowledge and also learned to search the Internet for information. Eel farms slowly began to produce benefits.

"in fact, it was really hard at that time, and I didn't know how I got through it." Liu Qiumei said that the farm has just started, the income is not stable, not only to take care of the family's arable land, but also to work on the farm. She has to get up every day before dawn, feed the fish fry, disinfect the farm, and get up late at night to go around the farm to observe the growth and health of the fish. If she finds abnormalities, she can diagnose and treat them in time, and dare not be negligent.

"No matter how hard and tired you are, you have to grit your teeth and get through that. If one's own technical ability is not enough, we should also pay close attention to study. " Although Liu Qiumi was so tired that her legs were filled with lead every day, she did not relax her technical study at all. She bought a lot of books on eel culture, squeezed her time like a sponge, used all her free time to eat one book at a time, and slowly mastered the techniques of eel cultivation, fishing, transportation and adult eel culture, as well as the construction of eel ponds and water quality management. knowledge of eel nutrition and feed, prevention and control of eel disease, etc.

efficiency comes from diligence. Through study and practice, Liu Qiumei finally mastered a full set of techniques for raising eels. The eels she raised were of fat meat, and merchants came to buy them one after another, which were exported to Guangxi, Jiangxi and other places. This made Liu Qiumei more confident and further expanded the scale of eel farms, which expanded to 230 mu in 2009. She also spread investment risks and developed four major domestic fish and soft-shelled turtles, with an annual output value of more than 1 million yuan.

With her willingness to learn and work hard, the 46-year-old Liu Qiumei finally found a way to get rich. What is even more rare is that after getting rich, Liu Qiumi did not forget her villagers and did not hide her "secret books on fish farming." when she met the villagers who came to ask for advice, she gave them money, and sometimes even lent money to the villagers in difficulty for turnover, and even asked them to take fish fry first and then pay for the fish. Under her leadership and technical guidance, the surrounding villagers raised eels and soft-shelled turtles and increased their income.