Tenebrio Molitor: a good way to get Rich by investing in low Market and good Farmers

A good way for farmers to get rich

"I started raising yellow pink worms in March 2011, 1000 boxes, and now I've earned 20, 000 yuan. Next I'm going to give up my big house to Tenebrio Molitor and raise 2000 boxes. It doesn't cost much to raise yellow powder insects. Eat rotten vegetable leaves, wheat bran and peel. Keeping bugs at home doesn't prevent me from working in the Yongfa farming cooperative, which costs more than 1000 yuan a month. " On January 28, Zhang Qiuying said happily in Sha Town Sha Nan Dong Village, Dongchangfu District, Liaocheng City.

In the side room of Zhang Qiuying's house, there are layers of wooden shelves with boxes of yellow pink worms on them. There was no stove in the house and it was cold, but in the wheat bran, the yellow powder worms were wriggling. The reporter twisted one in the palm of his hand, and the palm of the crawling hand was numb and crispy. "this thing is so vital that it seldom gets sick, and it's too easy to raise it! I can make my family rich thanks to brother Wang Cunxiu. " Zhang Qiuying said gratefully.

Wang Cunxiu, 25, is the president of Yongfa breeding Cooperative and lives in Locust Temple Village, Sha Town. After he came back from a part-time job in Shenzhen, he raised chickens and recycled waste plastics, all of which were paid for. Later, when he inspected that the investment in Tenebrio Molitor breeding was low and the market prospect was broad, he began to raise Tenebrio Molitor and made a net income of 10,000 yuan after returning to the capital that year.

Due to the high market demand, Wang Cunxiu launched the Yongfa farming cooperative in February last year, driving 136 farmers to breed yellow powder insects. Cooperatives implement unified seed supply, unified technical guidance and unified recycling and sales. The cooperative produces more than 20,000 jin of fresh insects every month. Large farmers can produce more than 2000 jin of bugs in a month, with an average annual income of 30, 000 yuan.

"next, some enterprises want to extract biodiesel from Tenebrio Molitor, so the market demand of Tenebrio Molitor cannot be estimated." Wang Cunxiu said: "raising chickens and pigs requires a high level of technology, and we need to do a good job in epidemic prevention. If we are not careful, we may all die of an illness. Raising Tenebrio Molitor does not require technical content, and it will not freeze to death even at minus 15 degrees. The income is considerable, which is a good way for farmers to get rich. " He said that fresh insects, which cost 5 yuan per jin, are the best feed for raising poultry, birds, turtles and bullfrogs, and are sold to Henan, Hebei, Beijing and other places. Dried insects about 36000 yuan per ton, sold to Tianjin and other places to extract protein powder, food additives and so on.

Eat 600000 jin of rotten vegetables a year

On the eve of the Spring Festival, Wang Cunxiu collected another truckload of rotten cabbages at 10 cents per jin.

"now the cabbages are clean, and it costs only a few cents a jin. When vegetables are cheap and unsalable, some farmers directly dump the vegetables in the fields and do not want them, and decay is easy to produce diseases and insect pests. Rotten vegetables are good fodder for yellow powder insects. Rotten cucumbers, rotten potatoes and rotten cilantro are all eaten by yellow powder insects. Over the past year, our co-operative has collected 600000 jin of rotten vegetables, with prices ranging from a few cents to a few cents per jin, reducing some losses for vegetable farmers. " Wang Cunxiu said.

According to reports, according to a farmer who produces 1500 jin of worms a month, these bugs will consume 7500 jin of rotten vegetables. Wang Cunxiu has joined relevant departments to buy 100000 jin of rotten cabbage from vegetable farmers.

Liu Shouzhu, an associate professor in the Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Liaocheng University, has studied yellow pink insects for many years. "the ecological benefits of breeding yellow powder insects are obvious," he said. Tenebrio Molitor is a 'transit station for the flow of nutrients', which can purify the environment, eat rotten vegetable leaves, kitchen waste and other organic waste, and convert into high-quality protein. Insect dung can be used as feed or fertilizer to form a virtuous circle of agriculture. Rotten vegetables in the field will form the source of disease, will bring nematodes, aphids and other diseases and insect pests. Feeding rotten vegetables to yellow powder insects can reduce the chance of accumulating diseases and insect pests in the field, and the incidence of crops can be reduced accordingly next year. "

"when I visited Tai'an some time ago, I saw more than a dozen dustbins with the words Taishan sanitation printed on the organic waste disposal center of Shandong Agricultural University." Wang Cunxiu said. The school cooperates with the Environmental Sanitation Department of Taian City to feed Tenebrio Molitor with kitchen garbage collected by the Sanitation Department. 3000 to 4000 boxes of yellow powder bugs can eat about 2 to 5 tons of kitchen garbage a day.

"at present, most of the domestic waste is disposed of by landfills, of which organic waste accounts for 70 to 80 percent. Breeding yellow powder insects provides a new way for garbage disposal. If the mode of raising insects and eating garbage can be popularized, then I believe that the problem of domestic waste disposal can be basically solved in the future. " Liu Shouzhu said.

The market is in great demand

"the yield of insects is second only to plants on the earth, and it is the only resource that has not yet been exploited. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization has called on meat eaters to switch to insects and is considering promoting insect food to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. " Liu Shouzhu believes that the market demand for Tenebrio Molitor is great, and it is the next blue sea for the aquaculture industry.

Liu Shouzhu said that with the increasingly prominent problems of environment, resources and population, protein shortage has become a global problem, and Tenebrio Molitor is a source of high-quality protein. On the one hand, it can provide high quality protein for human beings, on the other hand, it can be used as high quality feed for animal husbandry. As a food, the nutritional composition of Tenebrio Molitor ranks first among all kinds of animals and plants, rich in protein, amino acids and vitamins. And in the breeding process does not use any drugs, very safe. At present, many people do not accept it as a food. Liu Shouzhu once put fried yellow powder worms on the campus of Liao University for students to taste. Many people dared not eat them, but they all said they were delicious after eating them.