Six years at a loss and finally succeeded
Ye Li Rong, counted as the first domestic frog. The 73-year-old farmer from Chuannan Xincun, Yanglin Town, Kaihua County, has been researching and exploring the artificial culture technology of stone frogs for more than a decade, and has invested 1 million yuan to overcome the difficulties and finally take the lead in raising frogs successfully. "I am a real open-air raising stone frogs, this water is a mountain reservoir in the mountains to attract the mountain spring water, stone frogs hiding in the cracks of the stone during the day, you can not see, only to come out at night." October 21, in Kaifa County stone frog seedling base, Ye Rirong told us, in order to realize the natural ecological environment of raising stone frogs, his farm is not only in the pool around and in the middle of the "artificial land", but also moved to the pebble base of the artificial stone caves for stone frogs to live in, and at the same time in the pool on the construction of a steel-framed trellis and planting of loofahs, pumpkins The company is also working on a project to develop a new technology for the development of a new technology in the world.
Currently, his farm has 500 kilograms of commercial frogs and more than 1,000 pairs of seed frogs. "I only sell more than 200,000 tadpoles a year, and a tail is one dollar." Ye Lirong said that the ecological environment to raise stone frogs, these seed frogs only spawn from April to May, and only hatch 200,000 to 300,000 tadpoles a year, and it is difficult to hatch in July and August when the temperature is high.
Ye Li Rong began raising stone frogs in April 1996, when he spent 2,000 yuan to buy a new frog from the Chinese government. That year, he spent 2,000 yuan to buy 20 pairs of seed frogs from villagers who were catching stone frogs, and then starved and crashed to death after raising them for half a month. After a few years, he invested more than 80,000 yuan to buy stone frogs, faux ecological farming, or blood money. By the end of 1999, Ye Li Rong raised more than 50 kilograms of stone frogs, finally a few survive. See the miracle, he immediately bought 300 pairs of stone frogs to let go, but again a large part of the dead. Fumble, try, sick, cure, until the summer of 2002, Ye Li Rong completely out of the hatching, reproduction, metamorphosis, death of the circle, stone frog hatch rate, metamorphosis rate of more than 80%. The whole six years of "tuition", Ye Li Rong this is the success of frogs.
In 2003, he rented 15 acres of land in the village, and invested 500,000 yuan to build the "Kaifa Stone Frog Institute". Every year, Ye Li Rong frog income has reached eight or nine hundred thousand yuan.
Water quality technology is the key
"Raising stone frogs, water quality is the first, technology second." Summarize more than ten years of experience in raising frogs, Ye Li Rong analysis, now his stone frog breeding technology has been quite mature, relatively speaking, raising stone frogs water quality is the most important. As the water source of his farm is all dependent on a reservoir on the mountain, sometimes affected by the water quality in the reservoir, some tadpoles and small frogs have to die every year and lose 20,000 yuan. In addition, the open-air ponds to raise stone frogs, but also need to prevent rats, birds, snakes and other natural enemies.
In Jiangshan City, Xiakou Town, Xia Nan Village, before the stone in front of the Mountain Spring Valley stone frog farm, we see, 80 large and small pools with a lot of species of frogs, young frogs and tadpoles, farm director Huahui is coming to "learn from the experience of" a few farmers in Jiangxi Province to introduce the breeding of stone frogs. "The whole frog farm has a size of 10,000 stone frogs, tadpoles 20,000 tails." Hua Hui said.
In 2007, Huahui transferred the Internet cafe in the market town, and went into the mountains to raise stone frogs. This along the mountain stream and built farm, covers an area of 5 acres, has invested more than 500,000 yuan. He said: "My frog technology is learned from Zhejiang University, the beginning of a year to invest more than 200,000 yuan, is expected to two years to recover costs, but the fact is not so simple." In April 2009, his 200 pairs of breeding frogs bred more than 10,000 tadpoles, but a large number of deaths, only 1,000 live.
"At that time, this is mainly the technology did not pass, the tadpoles are easy to get sick, eat too much or eat unclean water easy to get gastroenteritis, gill disease." Huahui finally mastered the technology after many times of fumbling, preventing tadpoles from getting sick by frequently changing the water in the pool in summer and feeding the tadpoles with milk to make them grow strong and healthy. As the stone frogs in the tadpole, become small stone frogs need to pass the key "metamorphosis", then
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Metamorphosis of the small frogs have 15 days to 20 days do not eat. Therefore, it is very important to raise good tadpoles. As long as you master the technology and choose a good environment, raising stone frogs will still be successful, Hua Hui said.
Persisting for three years to see the benefits
"The economic benefits of raising stone frogs are still quite good, and I can't afford to sell my commercial frogs now." Ye Li Rong said, now the price per kilogram of stone frog is 280 yuan to 300 yuan, to the Spring Festival period to sell 400 yuan. He usually raises frogs for three years before picking out the robust ones to keep as seed frogs, and now the price of a pair of seed frogs is 300 yuan. This year, his income from raising frogs has reached 400,000 yuan.
"There have been quite a lot of people visiting and learning the technology in the past few years, and last year there were more than a dozen people who came to learn the technology." Ye Li Rong is to visit free of charge, learn technology for three days will be charged 3,500 yuan per person fee. This year, there have been more than 60 farmers from Jiangxi, Sichuan, Anhui, Henan to visit and learn technology.
"Farmers to raise stone frog success, the key to insist." Ye Li Rong said, generally a farmer to raise 1 acre site of stone frogs, you can introduce 50 pairs of species of frogs, the cost is 15,000 yuan, plus the construction of imitation ecological site, the total investment of more than 330,000 yuan. Generally speaking, when a tadpole grows to three taels in weight, it needs to be raised for three years before going on the market, after which it will have an income of 30,000 yuan per year. He analyzed that many farmers failed to raise stone frogs, the key is not stick to it. Some people are short-sighted, want to invest in the same year to see the benefits of the second year, which is impossible; some encountered setbacks, they gave up, the result is a loss of capital, but also lose business opportunities.
"And in the indoor pool raising stone frogs, only need to raise a year and a half time can grow to two two weight." Hua Hui said stone frog farming is very suitable for mountainous farmers' family farming with little investment. It costs only 600 yuan to build a pool, and a family can build five or six pools, introduce 10 pairs of breeding frogs, and invest only six or seven thousand yuan in the first stage. three years later, farmers have a net income of 20,000 to 30,000 yuan a year. "To learn the technology from me, the tuition fee is 2,500 yuan per person." He said more than 70 farmers from all over the country have been trained this year. This year, Huahui's income from raising stone frogs is 500,000 to 600,000 yuan