"Frog King" Li Chenlong

It was in his bullfrog farm that I saw Li Chen long. He is 20 years old this year and lives at 608 Kangzang Road in the urban area. his family is well-off and his parents are both civil servants in this city. At this time, he looks no different from the average rural youth. The sun and rain of rural life for more than half a year makes his skin slightly dark and slightly mature. If someone hadn't told me in advance, I wouldn't have thought that the owner of the frog farm was a graduate of Sichuan Archives School in 2008.

Li Chenlong shows the bullfrog he raised.

Learn art in Zhejiang on the eve of graduation

Li Chenlong's frog farm is located in Gonghe Village, Shangli Town, Yucheng District, surrounded by a large area of farmland. He said that the reason for choosing this place at first is that the air and water here are better and it is suitable for raising bullfrogs. Now it seems that the site has been chosen correctly.

Although Li Chen long grew up in the city, he has been interested in the countryside since he was a child. He likes the willow and willow Yiyi in the countryside and the singing of insects and birds in the countryside.

On the eve of graduation, Li Chenlong went alone to a bullfrog breeding base in Lin'an, Zhejiang Province, where he studied frog farming skills for a year. After learning the skills, he immediately went home to plan his own frog farm.

Before he came back from Zhejiang, his parents had helped him get a good job in the city, but he insisted on raising frogs in the countryside. Li Chen long's move was firmly opposed by his parents and relatives and friends, who thought he was crazy: what kind of job was hard to find, but he wanted to be a farmer in the countryside. But Li Chen long has made up his mind, and no one can convince him any more. He believes that special farming in rural areas is still a weak link, coupled with the broad prospects of the frog market, as long as the technology is in place and cost savings, the future will certainly be bright.

Borrow money to set up a frog farm

After a period of time, Li Chen long's persistence changed the attitude of his family and friends. With tens of thousands of yuan borrowed from relatives and friends, Li Chen long rented a private house, covered a wasteland, built a house, and bought 42 pairs of frog species. In January this year, his ecological farm was finally set up. Without help, it all depends on him to feed, feed and change the water in the pool. He gets up early in the morning and feels dark every day, and sleeps in the humble hut of the frog farm at night.

Small frog heads can be seen everywhere in the frog pond. Li Chenlong told reporters that he now has 20 intensive culture ponds, in which there are more than 2000 frogs and more than 10,000 tadpoles, although the benefits will not be revealed until two years later, according to the bullfrog's current profit of more than 20 yuan per kilogram, the appreciation will be higher and higher in the future. Because it is an ecological frog, in addition to feeding a diet with absolutely no antibiotics, earthworms alone have to eat dozens of jin every day. In order to breed a large number of earthworms needed for bullfrogs, he often went to the village to collect cow dung. Whenever we talk about this, the villagers of Republic Village all admire his diligence, and the villagers come to understand that the young people in this city are not on a whim. As a result, many curious or admiring villagers came to visit and learn the arts.

Li Chen long wanted to wait until he had made a profit, then held a training course in the village to teach ecological frog farming techniques to people who came to learn the art free of charge. Pointing to the vast tracts of farmland around him, he said, in the future, I will plant all kinds of fruit trees and vegetables here, and raise some pigs, cattle and sheep. My ultimate goal is to build it into a modern ecological farm, which was my dream when I was a student.