Look at the large-scale breeding of leeches: an interview with Zhou Weimin Shiyou, General Manager of Wujiang Star Industry breeding Center

His "irregularity" is the mindset of different ordinary people, the progress of different ordinary people in the face of difficulties, and the persistent exploration of different ordinary people in order to achieve their goals.

Because of a remark from his friend, he went to the fields and ponds to catch wild leeches, only to find that he had already been caught by many farmers. At that time, the price of live leeches used to produce medicinal materials was about 0.6 yuan per piece.

So, since 2000, he bought thousands of leeches from local farmers at a price of 0.7 yuan per piece, dug ponds in his own land and began to breed and explore.

This has been done for 10 years.

He spent 10 years exploring the key technical links of leeches from breeding, egg cocoon hatching to seedling raising, and changed the extensive leech pond culture model to an industrial culture model suitable for leech growth, reproduction, and convenient operation and management of farmers.

Now, when the huge market demand of leeches calls to him, he starts from closed-door breeding to open breeding, and launches the management idea of "enterprise + ten farmers in breeding sub-farm".

When many people know about him and his leech farming factory, and people from all walks of life come to visit his leech breeding base, it is not so much a textual research on Zhou Weimin's leech farming as a pursuit and yearning for getting rich. For us, we hope to find a direction of wealth creation that is suitable for farmers.

10 years of exploration: the dawn of industrial leech culture model

Interview with Zhou Weimin, General Manager of Wujiang Star Industry breeding Center

In order to turn business opportunities into business benefits, we need not only a persistent spirit, but also a keen thinking mind.

Reporter (hereinafter referred to as "Ji"): Leech is a valuable medicinal resource. From the analysis of the development of the pharmaceutical market in the future, many people think that the market demand is huge. But people are more likely to listen to the voices of hands-on practitioners. Because these people know the connection between production and market best. As a practitioner in leech farming, what kind of judgment and analysis do you have on the hirudin farm?

Zhou Weimin (hereinafter referred to as "Zhou"): Leech is a valuable raw material of traditional Chinese medicine at home and abroad, which can treat injury, hypertension, coronary heart disease and tumor. Its medicinal value determines its future market situation. From the perspective of consumer market, China is the earliest country to use leeches. With the development of domestic medicine and the further development of the medicinal value of leeches, the demand for leeches is increasing day by day. In addition, the consumer market in Europe and the United States is very large. Japan, Korea and Southeast Asian countries also import a large number of leeches from China, resulting in a shortage of domestic leeches and rising prices. Especially in 1999, the contradiction between supply and demand was particularly prominent, and the price of fresh leeches was 80 yuan / kg. Because at that time, leeches basically came from natural fishing.