Female college student village official raises grasshopper locust to become famous dish "Flying locust Tengda"

"the grasshopper, there is only one stubble left." A peasant proverb has labeled this six-legged bug as a "negative image" that can not be removed for a lifetime. When it comes to it, many people will associate it with the plague of locusts. Building a greenhouse to raise grasshoppers is a ridiculous thing in the eyes of ordinary farmers, but in Huayuankou Huanghe Beach District of Zhengzhou, a beautiful girl really started to raise grasshoppers. The 25-year-old girl is the assistant director of Gongzhuang Village of Yingbin Road subdistrict office in Huiji District and the village official of college students.

Raw color clouds sew and reinforce the greenhouse.

Collect food for locusts.

Colorful clouds constantly observe the living habits of locusts.

The old locusts with open teeth and claws.

This is the famous dish "Migratory Locust Tengda".

Locusts are rich in nutrients, including organic matter, protein, fat, carbohydrates, as well as a large number of free amino acids and vitamins needed by the human body; inorganic substances include various salts, potassium, sodium, phosphorus, iron, calcium and so on. In addition, it is also rich in chitin, which can eliminate human endotoxin and has the effect of detoxifying and nourishing beauty.

At 5: 00 in the morning of July 20, the cricket in the field called twice from time to time. Sheng Caiyun, 25, stood outside the greenhouse and listened attentively to the movements of several greenhouses. The sound of "rustling" in the shed slowly diminished, and she led two villagers to pick up the net bag and Artemisia argyi and walked into the greenhouse.

What they want to catch is not anything rare, but in their eyes, hundreds of jin of grasshoppers in the shed are treasures. There are millions of grasshoppers in the greenhouse, 75 days of feeding and thousands of jin of forage. The grasshopper captured today is a heavy harvest.

Raising a grasshopper is not a whim. Shengcaiyun usually pays great attention to using the rural distance education network to view information. in the first half of 2007, she learned from the distance education network market information that in many parts of the country, grasshopper has become a popular green food on the dinner table, which can be sold for dozens of yuan per kilogram, and the prospect is very good. This message inspired Sheng Caiyun. Gongzhuang Village is close to the Yellow River Beach area, and there are dozens of farm restaurants with game characteristics nearby. With such good conditions, why not lead the villagers to raise grasshoppers to get rich? After several months of breeding practice, Shengcaiyun decided to start breeding grasshoppers.

Shengcaiyun bought more than 320 jin of eggs from Shandong, bought bamboo poles, gauze nets and zippers, and set up six grasshopper sheds in the beach area of the Yellow River.

In May last year, she and several villagers took 5 kilograms of grasshoppers to sell at the Nongjiale Hotel near the Yellow River in Zhengzhou. they gave it to diners for free and gave it a loud name, "Migratory Locust Tengda." how to let diners rate the taste. Diners are full of interest in this novel food, after tasting full of praise, restaurant owners feel profitable, so they began to buy. Since then, some restaurants along the Yellow River and in the urban area have added a signature dish, "Feihuang (Locust) Tengda". Soon, when a customer in Guangzhou heard about it, he made a special phone call to say that he wanted as much as he had.

"the grasshopper is actually very easy to raise. As long as you put the eggs in the greenhouse and make sure that the forage is adequate and free from pesticides, the grasshopper can survive and reproduce. My six sheds use two to three hundred jin of grass a day and plant Mexican corn grass and millet around the shed to hire people to harvest. Don't worry about the rest. After harvesting three seasons a year, the grasshopper has grown up, and now the nearby restaurants are all scrambling for it. We sell it all for 20 yuan a jin, and we have all sold out. " Sheng Caiyun said that her personal investment was only a few thousand yuan and she had earned more than 10,000 yuan. Han Jianjun in the village invested a lot and earned more than 30,000 yuan. Seeing that raising a grasshopper can also make money, some villagers have begun to plan to raise it with her. At present, some distributors of non-local aquatic products wholesale market continue to negotiate orders with Shengcaiyun, of which Shandong alone hopes to buy 5 tons of grasshoppers.