The champion of Sanda went back to his hometown to raise Loach and upgraded to King Loach to lead the farmers to get rich.

Zhou Chaohua (right) is identifying loach sex with workers

"Teacher Zhou has brought us a new way to become rich again!" At the beginning of January 2016, after hearing that the establishment of loach breeding professional cooperative in the village had been submitted to the District Agricultural Committee for approval, the villagers of Tingzi Village, Taihe Town, Hechuan District, Chongqing were delighted and ran to tell each other.

The reporter learned that Teacher Zhou in the mouth of the villagers is the general manager of Shenghua Aquaculture Co., Ltd. in Hechuan District. "The loach is almost sold now. We'll be in the pond for a while and wait until spring to release new seedlings." When the reporter saw Zhou Chaohua, he was working with workers in the yard to identify loach sex.

Sanda champion returns home to raise loach

Zhou Chaohua, born in 1973, was born in Yubei District of Chongqing City and was once an athlete of Hunan Hengyang Sanda Team. In 1993, he won the 56kg championship in the Wushu Championships of Hunan Province. In the second half of 1994, he went to Qidong Martial Arts Institute in Hunan Province as a coach because he could not compete again due to hand injury. During his teaching period, he fell in love with Guo Li, who was also a coach. In 2004, both resigned and returned to Yubei to marry and start a business. After returning to Chongqing, Zhou Chaohua sold clothes and ran small food. Although the business was going well, he had always been thinking about making his family live a better life.

Thinking of the good prospects for loach breeding, Zhou Chaohua specially learned loach breeding technology. After learning, he went to Dianjiang, Changshou and other districts and counties for investigation, did not find suitable loach breeding places, this matter once stranded.

At the end of 2010, Zhou Chaohua and his wife visited Taihe Town and found that Taihe Town was rich in water resources, flat terrain and convenient transportation, which was very suitable for loach breeding. So he went to Taihe Town Agricultural Service Center for consultation, finally located in Taihe Town Tingzi Village. After some preparations, Zhou Chaohua began the road of loach breeding.

In case of setbacks, don't give up fundraising and start over

At the beginning of 2011, Zhou Chaohua invested more than 400,000 yuan in introducing trees, purchasing feed and contracting loach ponds. Under Zhou Chaohua's careful care, loach breeding was very successful. Zhou Chaohua and his family were delighted to see that 5000 kilograms of loach were about to be sold on the market. In September of that year, Hechuan suffered floods, originally intended to sell around the National Day loach was washed away by the flood more than 4000 kilograms, direct loss of more than 300,000 yuan.

Years of savings went down the drain. Zhou Chaohua wanted to cry but no tears came to her eyes as she watched the loach pond in disarray after the flood. However, he was not defeated by difficulties. Not long after, Zhou Chaohua borrowed money everywhere and began to repair farmland and buy seedlings.

In 2012, he and his partner He Yousheng invested more than 600,000 yuan, contracted 25 mu pond in Community 10 of Tingzi Village, established Hechuan District Shenghua Aquaculture Co., Ltd., and expanded the breeding scale. Before the National Day of that year, they raised 10,000 kilograms of loach finally listed.

Zhou Chaohua loach culture adopts ecological culture and self-propagation technology. "Loach self-breeding technology is something we have explored. At present, few farmers have mastered this technology in Hechuan and surrounding areas." Zhou Chaohua said.

At present, some loach breeding technology is immature, often there will be "inch seedling death" phenomenon (that is, loach has not grown to three centimeters when a large area of death). Most loach farmers in Sichuan and Chongqing mainly buy seedlings for breeding, and few self-breeding and self-cultivation, while the purchase of seedlings needs to spend a lot of breeding cost. If you want to reduce the cost of farming, you have to achieve self-breeding.

Zhou Chaohua successively went to Sichuan, Jiangsu, Hubei and other provinces to visit and obtain scriptures, and consulted relevant materials, successfully realizing loach self-breeding. "The new incubator we developed can incubate 4.5 million loaches at a time." According to Zhou Chaohua, in addition to self-propagation and self-cultivation, the breeding base also adopts ecological imitation breeding mode, implements soil breeding, and uses light and bacteria to adjust the micro-ecological balance of water body, prolong water change cycle, reduce loach incidence rate, thus reducing breeding cost.

In 2014, He Yousheng withdrew his shares for another development. Zhou Chaohua served as the general manager of Shenghua Aquaculture Co., Ltd., expanding the scale of the breeding base to 50 mu. At present, his breeding base has raised green loach, large-scale paraloach, eel, etc., gradually establishing a loach industry chain from loach seedling breeding, adult loach breeding, loach seedling and adult loach sales. In March 2015, Taiwan eel loach with shorter growth cycle, low feed coefficient and high feed conversion rate was introduced.

Enlarge Industry, Help Agriculture and Become Rich

Zhou Chaohua's loach is sold to the aquatic wholesale market in Hechuan and Chongqing, which is often in short supply. In 2014, the output value of the breeding base reached more than 2 million yuan. In 2015, the price declined slightly, and the output value also reached more than 1.5 million yuan.

At the same time, Zhou Chaohua adopted the breeding mode of company plus farmer households, purchased farmers 'finished products at protective prices and sold them on the market, driving more than 20 villagers around to develop and become rich together.

Mo Lirong, a villager of Tingzi Village, is one of the beneficiaries. Mo Lirong, who has been working as a carpenter outside for many years, has always wanted to go back to his hometown to develop his industry, but he suffers from lack of professional skills. In March 2013, Mo Lirong came to the breeding base, hoping to learn loach breeding technology. After free training, Mo Lirong, who mastered the breeding technology, contracted 10 mu of land to breed loach in the village. Over the past two years, he has made a lot of money. In 2014, he also bought a Chang 'an car to facilitate the transportation of goods.

Zhou Chaohua's breeding base is famous, and there are constantly villagers nearby and people from other places to observe and learn. He not only taught farming technology free of charge, but also personally went to the villagers 'pond for guidance if there were major problems. Even to the peers in urgent need of help to lend a helping hand to help others tide over difficulties.

One night in May 2014, it rained heavily in the sky. Zhou Chaohua, who had just fallen asleep, was awakened by a knock on the door. It turned out that a farmer in Tongnan hoped that he would rush to Tongnan immediately to help solve the problem of "inch seedling death". Zhou Chaohua immediately set out to the farmer's home, after 3 days of treatment, finally solved the problem, for the farmer recovered a lot of economic losses.

Seeing that the loach breeding industry in the village has developed well, Zhou Chaohua is thinking about setting up a professional loach breeding cooperative to enlarge and strengthen the loach industry in Tingzi Village. At present, relevant matters have been submitted to the District Agricultural Committee for approval. "After the establishment of the cooperative, it will provide the whole process services such as standardized construction of loach pond, seedling supply, feed supply, breeding technology and sales." Zhou Chaohua introduced, As long as do "Adjust a pond water, Protect a good intestine", Loach breeding is very simple, He welcomes the breeding willing masses to go to his breeding base to observe and learn.