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How about raising grasshoppers? What is the profit per acre? What is the initial investment?

1. You only need to buy seeds once, but they can reproduce for many years. Eggs hatch locusts, and locusts lay eggs, over and over again, endlessly, and never mutate. Each locust egg is calculated at 0.10 yuan, so 10,000 locusts only require an investment of 1,000 yuan. (Actual discount when purchasing seeds)

2. The breeding equipment is simple and can be made with whatever is available and local materials. The investment required to purchase some of the equipment is only a few dozen yuan.

3. There are many sources of feed. Locusts like to eat reeds, thatch, foxtail grass, thread grass, coiled grass, as well as corn, wheat, sorghum, millet, etc. There is no need to invest in raising 10,000 to 50,000 locusts. Each person can complete the entire process of feeding and management in two hours a day.

4. If you need to grow your own feed, you can plant 10,000 locusts in one acre of land in batches, and the investment is minimal.

5. Locusts have strong vitality and never get sick. Locusts are bred under natural conditions. In the north, two generations are produced in summer and autumn. In the south, they can be bred all year round. The cycle is short, the effect is fast, and the reproduction rate is high. Each locust lays 60 to 120 eggs at a time.

6. Raising 10,000 East Asian migratory locusts can reach 36-40 jin. Calculated at the current market minimum price of 10 yuan/jin, the calculation formula for summer locusts is: 10,000 × 36 jin × 10 yuan = 360 yuan. If 4,000 female locusts are left to lay eggs in summer, and each locust lays at least 60 eggs, with a survival rate of 90%, the number of autumn locusts in the second half of the year will be 4,000 × 60 eggs × 90% = 216,000, and the amount is 216,000 × 36 jin × 10 yuan = 7,776 yuan. The gross income in the first year of breeding is 7,776 + 360 = 8,136 yuan, which only requires an investment of 1,000 yuan and some simple materials. In subsequent years, depending on the number of eggs laid by the locusts, the income will double. (1. This is calculated based on two seasons a year. If more than two seasons are harvested each year according to our company's technology, the economic benefits will be more considerable; 2. If the initial investment is more than 1,000 yuan, then the development will be faster and the benefits will definitely double)

2. Locust breeding costs and profits

1. It costs 300 yuan to build a shed and 2,000 yuan to grow locusts. About 1,000 adults can be raised per square meter. Locust breeding is suitable for any family, including women and children. The scale can be large or small. You can start production with an area of ​​50 square meters and feed once a day. To build a shed, we just need to buy a better screen net, choose a place, build a shed of about 50 square meters, and organize people to go to the mountains to catch about 50X1000 locusts in the picture. The initial investment is about 500 yuan (excluding labor time and labor costs).

2. Benefit analysis: Buy 20,000 breeding eggs, with a reproduction rate of 85%, or 17,000 locusts, of which 50%, or about 8,000, are female locusts. Each female locust lays 40-80 eggs, and can lay 300,000-600,000 eggs, breeding 280,000-500,000 young locusts. Minus the 20% casualty rate, 220,000-440,000 adult locusts can be bred. Each 500 locusts weigh about one kilogram, and the output is 440-880 kilograms. The current market price is 20 yuan/kg, and the output value can reach 8,800-17,600 yuan. This income only requires an investment of 2,000 yuan in breeding eggs and greenhouse investment (note: these two investments are one-time investments and no further investment is required in the future). Since there is no need to continue investing in the second year, the profit will be even more considerable.

3. It only takes 35 days to raise locusts into adults, and they can be sold after they are fat and strong in about 50 days. A 200-square-meter net shed can raise 200,000 locusts (about 400 kg). The economic benefits are quite considerable, the cost is low, and the feed is mainly forage grass. The East Asian migratory locust has a wide range of feeding, just like feeding sheep. It likes to eat: reeds, thatch, foxtail grass, line grass, coil grass, etc.; Gramineae: corn, wheat, sorghum, millet, etc. Planting 1 acre of forage can solve all feed sources, with a short cycle and high efficiency. You only need to buy seeds once, and you will benefit for a lifetime. They can breed and raise dozens of times by themselves, and locusts can hatch from eggs and lay eggs, over and over again, forming a virtuous circle.

Through the above introduction to locust breeding costs and profit analysis, we now know whether raising locusts is profitable. Locusts are rich in nutrients, tender in meat, and taste as delicious as shrimps. They are known as "flying shrimps" in Hong Kong and other places. They have high economic and medicinal value. We must pay attention to daily breeding management techniques.

If you have the idea of ​​raising grasshoppers, don't do it. This year I raised several sheds of grasshoppers and was defrauded of 40,000 yuan. When recycling the grasshoppers, the boss deliberately lowered the price, and the price he gave me was not even enough to buy wheat bran. Several sheds only produced more than 800 kilograms. It was agreed that one kilogram of eggs would produce ten kilograms of grasshoppers. I laid 130 kilograms of eggs in each shed, but the amount that came out was unbelievable, a total of more than 800 kilograms. The eggs the boss gave me were basically full of soil. He said he was talking about eggs dug by a novice. The result was that I spent money to buy hundreds of kilograms of soil. I have learned my lesson and will share the scam of grasshopper farming with everyone. Don't raise them, otherwise you will suffer the same consequences as I did.

Based on my own breeding experience over the past few years, the profit is still very high. However, you have to work hard to do anything. Do things seriously.

I am from the countryside of Lu'an City, Anhui Province. I want to go home and raise livestock in the mountains. What should I raise?

What to raise depends on whether the sales can be solved smoothly, otherwise it is very annoying to make the product unsalable. So first of all, it is based on the situation of having sales.

Seedlings are managed in a rough way, but they are called green banks. Whether you can sell them or not, they are more valuable as time goes by. Reproduction is simple. Most seedlings are propagated by cuttings, and the cost is very low. If a greening business needs small shrubs, they can purchase them from you, and the money will come quickly. There are some big trees with good tree shapes on the mountain, and they can be directly dug up and turned into funds.

Now, the more popular ones are native chickens, wild boars, bamboo rats, and bamboo chickens. But the feed is more difficult than ordinary poultry, especially wild boars and bamboo rats like to dig holes. You have to learn all kinds of techniques. But the market value is high. In Hunan, a real native chicken raised in the mountains costs 50 yuan per pound. The yolk of the egg is red, and the belly is full of fat.

Then insect breeding is also an emerging industry. Maggots, snails, scorpions, centipedes, mealworms, cicada pupae, bee pupae, silkworm pupae, grasshoppers, etc. On the one hand, making feed may upgrade the breeding industry of several surrounding villages. Chickens, ducks, and fish eat insect feed, even if they are from the farm, and the quality of meat and eggs is significantly improved. Cicada pupae are called Tang Monk meat in Jiangsu, and they sell for 100 yuan per catty. Scorpions and centipedes have also entered some high-end restaurants. White jade snails are known as the top of the four delicacies. So I said that solving the problem of sales is the first priority. But why raise insects? Because insects grow as much as they eat, that is, if you feed them 1 catty of feed, they will grow at least 6-8 taels. Warm-blooded animals have to convert food into heat to maintain body temperature and consume energy. They can only grow about 1-2 taels of meat. I am just giving an analogy. That is to say, the cost of insect breeding is also very low.

As for the rest, I think it's pretty much the same. Chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, cows, and sheep. Nothing much to say.