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What caused the rural areas to stop raising fish?

The main reason why rural areas no longer raise fish is because they do not have the conditions to do so, or the added value of fish farming is too low, making the gains not worth the costs. This does not mean that all rural areas no longer raise fish!

In rural areas where fish are not raised, there is a serious population loss, poor transportation, or water resources are no longer abundant or polluted, etc., which has caused people in some rural areas to stop raising fish. The main reason for rural areas that no longer raise fish is that it is not easy to get rich by raising fish now, so they no longer raise fish.

In the Jiangnan water town, which is rich in water resources, there are many fish farming bases in rural areas. As long as it is freshwater fish that people need and can be farmed, the four major carps, as well as various precious freshwater fish, are farmed. The freshwater fish we consume in the market are farmed in rural areas across the country. Otherwise, where do the freshwater fish we eat come from? Could it be farmed in the city?

Land is very expensive in cities, and the cost of raising fish is even higher, so most of the freshwater fish we eat still come from fish ponds in rural areas. In rural areas near towns, some people raise fish, and some operate fishing ponds, and run farmhouses together. Where I am, there are many paid fishing services in the surrounding rural areas, where farmed fish are specifically raised for people to pay to catch, and the business is booming. For such rural farmers to engage in fish farming entertainment industry, the geographical location must be good, and there are many farmers in suburban villages doing this business.

So we can't say that no one in the countryside raises fish anymore. If no one in the countryside really raises fish anymore, where do the freshwater fish and shrimp that consumers eat now come from? We can only say that in some rural areas, due to reasons such as geographical location and water resources, the added value of fish farming is too small, and the gains outweigh the losses, so they don't raise fish anymore. In rural areas that are suitable for fish farming and have fish farming resources, fish ponds are everywhere. If you don't believe it, you can go to rural areas such as Anhui, Hubei, and Jiangxi to see that there are people raising crayfish, eels, yellow croaker, and all kinds of freshwater fish. In rural areas that lack water resources and have inconvenient transportation, there are no conditions for fish farming. Who would go to fish in a tree?

Most fish ponds in rural areas do not raise fish. This is a common phenomenon in rural areas in recent years. Before 2015, when I was preparing to engage in ecological farming, I had studied this phenomenon. After investigation and understanding, I think there are three main reasons why most fish ponds in rural areas do not raise fish, but the most critical reason is that raising fish does not make money.

Most fish ponds in rural areas are small in size, generally between 3 and 6 mu. After major changes in the current rural conditions, it is not easy to make money in such small rural fish ponds if they still follow the traditional model or the popular breeding method of artificial feed!

If you don't do maintenance every two years, it will become flat land, and you can only grow crops and vegetables. If you use an excavator to dig the pond, lay cement as the base, and build the fish pond with cement bricks, I estimate that it will cost at least 25,000 yuan per mu of fish pond. If you don't use cement as the base and don't build cement bricks around it, then you will have to hire an excavator to clean the pond at least once every two years. After careful calculation, I realized that raising fish is purely for others to raise.

There are not good conditions for fish farming, and most young people in rural areas go out to work, so there are relatively few people raising fish.

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Straw waste residue breeding, mealworm ecological breeding, pheasant rural entrepreneurship and agricultural entrepreneurship will definitely be one of the hottest industries in the next 10 years. The founder of the Hurun rankings has also predicted that the hottest capital flow industry in China in the future will be agriculture, because China's agriculture has been undervalued for many years and has not received a good development opportunity. Many talents and funds have also flowed to large cities and large industries. However, China's industry and urbanization have brought an embarrassing situation, that is, agriculture lags seriously behind the development of other industries. This is not only in terms of raw materials, but also in other consumption contributions. The process of pulling industry and urbanization is increasingly expensive. Relying solely on the export-oriented economy is far from being able to solve China's economic problems, and it is not safe. Therefore, this year China has issued a document to support agriculture with a scale of about 1 trillion yuan, so as long as you look at the huge market of agriculture and rural areas, you can dig up your own bucket of gold. And our experience tells us that there are at least several advantages in starting a business in rural areas:

1. Advantages of government support: This year, the country has further increased its support for agriculture. Agriculture has become one of the most profitable industries. Various provinces and cities have provided a lot of financial support for breeding and planting industries. Special breeding, in particular, has become the preferred project for many investors and farmers due to its low investment, short cycle, large market and high efficiency.

2. Rural resource advantages: Most rural areas in China are relatively backward, with a small-scale economy that mainly relies on raising poultry with part of the grain they grow. Farmers' annual income is very low, and their labor is the cheapest. Rural areas can fully utilize the large amount of grain and feed they produce to turn into economics, produce a large amount of organic fertilizers to meet the needs of the planting industry, and thus meet the minimum requirements of the family economy. Therefore, developing special breeding industry is the most practical, most affordable, and easily accepted and actively welcomed way for farmers to get rich through breeding.

Pheasants, also known as pheasants and mountain chickens, have colorful feathers and are known as dragon and phoenix birds. Although they are artificially raised, they are still wild and like to run and fly. They have the characteristics of fast growth, high egg production, wide adaptability, and strong resistance to adversity. Pheasant farming has the following characteristics:

1. Make use of the rich waste resources such as straw, distiller's grains, bean dregs, etc. in rural areas. The investment can be large or small. If conditions permit, a special breeding base can be established for large-scale breeding; if conditions are limited, the currently cheap straw, distiller's grains, bean dregs and other waste residues can be used to breed mealworms, and then use mealworms as pheasant feed. The feces of mealworms can be used as raw materials for pheasant feed and can also be used as organic fertilizer for crops. Plant some pasture grass or fruits, which can be used as feed for mealworms and pheasants. Such an ecological farm almost does not need to purchase feed from outside. It can only use some waste materials to breed pure natural insects and wild birds. The feeding cost is extremely low and no mechanical equipment is required. Any empty house or pig house can be used for breeding. It is really a small investment with great benefits, which is suitable for small-scale entrepreneurship in rural areas.

2. It is easier to raise special livestock. Before pheasants were domesticated, they lived in the wild. Because they needed to resist adverse factors in the natural environment, they developed very strong disease-resistant genes. Although we now domesticate them, their genes have not changed. They are still highly resistant to diseases and have a high survival rate. Therefore, they are easier to raise and care for than poultry.

3. Fast capital recovery and high efficiency. Pheasants mostly feed on grass, so only a small amount of concentrated feed is needed for breeding. Moreover, the insect recycling method we recommend for breeding pheasants is much cheaper than traditional breeding methods, and even lower than raising ordinary poultry. More importantly, the price of this insect pheasant, which has both food and supplementary uses, is more than 2 to 3 times that of poultry, so the breeding efficiency of insect pheasants is very high. Moreover, due to the shortage of supply in the pheasant market, as many as can be sold, capital recovery is of course much faster than operating other products.

4. Large market demand and broad prospects

Pheasant meat is tender and delicious, with a high meat yield. It is rich in a variety of essential amino acids and trace elements for the human body. It is a rare game food with high protein, low fat and certain medicinal value. It is favored by more and more foreign consumers. Because pheasants have long tails and bright feathers, they are highly ornamental. Sending pheasants during festivals means wishing for health, longevity, good luck and happiness. At present, in addition to exporting to the international market, the domestic market is also very popular. Pheasants are not only delicious dishes in hotels, restaurants, restaurants, and banquets, but are also increasingly on the tables of ordinary people. At present, the market for pheasant products is in a state of supply exceeding demand, and the market space is very large.

Insect cycle breeding technology for special livestock pheasants: (1) Site selection and construction: It is advisable to choose a sunny mountain with high terrain and no water accumulation. The best trees are pine, fir and other miscellaneous trees. A sky net should be built along the forest to prevent the pheasants from escaping. The chicken house can be a simple waterproof and windproof sunny factory built inside the sky net. The chicken house should also be equipped with a perch for the pheasants to roost, so that the pheasants' long tails will not be broken. (2) Food for pheasants: Pheasants still have the wildness before domestication. They are aggressive and eat insects. These are their nature. Therefore, when breeding pheasants, it is necessary to solve the problem of insect food for pheasants. This can be solved by breeding special economic animals, mealworms, maggots and termites. Mealworms are called "the king of protein". They have been used to feed special wild animals for hundreds of years. The breeding method is also very easy to master, and the source of feed is also very wide and cheap. If they are artificially bred, they can be bred as their main food source. The breeding method of mealworms is simple, takes up little space, has high yield and a wide range of feed sources. They can use local agricultural and sideline waste, straw, rice bran, potato residue, bean dregs, peanut shell powder, distiller's grains and other rural waste to breed mealworms, and then use mealworms as feed for stone frogs, and use mealworm feces as feed for pigs, chickens or fish. This is also a very efficient ecological breeding chain. Relevant data show that my country's straw resources are very rich. The annual output of various crop straws in the country is about 700 million tons, which is equivalent to more than 50 times the amount of grass cut in the northern grasslands, accounting for 20% to 30% of the world's total straw output. The development and utilization of straw feed in my country is still in its infancy, and the intensive production level of the feed industry is low. At present, it is limited to pit silage and small-scale ammoniation treatment. Most of the crop straw is not used reasonably every year, resulting in a huge waste of resources. If we can utilize 60% of the crop straw every year and process it into feed after treatment, the benefits will be equivalent to the current total feed grain in the country (about 87 million tons). Therefore, the development and utilization of abundant straw resources is an inevitable trend in the development of my country's national feed industry. At the same time, the global demand for protein feed is increasing, and the serious shortage of protein feed is particularly prominent. How to solve the growing demand for protein feed, the most important and economical way tried in developed countries is to develop insect protein feed resources and various types of crop straw and feed raw materials processed by various means and methods. Governments at all levels in my country also attach great importance to the industrialization of insect protein resources. The Ministry of Agriculture has listed insect feed as one of the 10 recommended grain-saving feed resources, and the National Animal Husbandry Development Center has also listed insect breeding as one of the 7 types of breeding industries that my country will vigorously develop in the future. The State Planning Commission included "Promoting the Industrialization of Mealworms" in the 2000 High-Tech Industrialization Promotion Project, and the Ministry of Agriculture included "Demonstration and Promotion of Factory Production Technology of Mealworms" in the 2001 Agricultural, Animal Husbandry and Fishery Harvest Plan. Therefore, the most widely used feed insect resource is the breeding of mealworms.

For example, we can use white wine lees or beer lees to raise mealworms. The cost is low, the method is simple, it can be mass-produced, and the benefits are also high. Generally, 1 ton of wet white wine lees can raise 40 kilograms of fresh mealworms. If calculated at 20 yuan per ton of wet white wine lees, the feed cost of raising 1 kilogram of fresh mealworms is only 0.5 yuan. Or use cassava residues, bean dregs, sauce residues and other waste residues to raise mealworms. Then one ton of cassava residues is 40 to 50 yuan, so the cost of raising mealworms is only a few cents of feed cost. Moreover, the feces of mealworms can also be used as a feed ingredient for fish and chicken farming, which can really turn rural waste into a high-quality feed source, reduce breeding costs, improve the grade of products, and solve the recycling of wastes and reduce pollution to the environment. It can be said to be an ecological industry that benefits the country and the people.

This special method of breeding wild animals is also suitable for some other special livestock, such as peacocks, partridges, golden pheasants, white pheasants, swans, royal chickens, turtledoves, etc.

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