There are crocodiles in the middle of Hubei -the story of a veteran and a 100,000 crocodile

White chicken is a crocodile food.

The base fish pond is raised with turtles and turtles.

Crocodile in the warm shed.

Text/Picture Hubei Daily All Media Reporter Wang Xunqian Correspondent Li Le Tian

Hubei is known as Hubei, harmonious with crocodile.

Crocodile is one of the most primitive animals that have been discovered so far. During the exterior dinosaur contempora on, it has survived for more than 200 million years on the earth. This fierce animal, opens sharp teeth, wears hard scales, is daunting.

However, in the eyes of Yang Zhihua, who was born in Xiaogan's rural areas, the crocodile was all treasures, with ecological, scientific research, and economic value. For 20 years, Yang Zhihua is determined to have the artificial breeding and development of crocodiles, writing legendary stories.

More than 20,000 crocodiles in 68 temperature sheds

On June 17th, in Xiaofu Village, Wolong Township, Xiaonan District, Xiaogan City, a row of thermos room in the special breeding base of Dongfang crocodile biotechnology company in Hubei began, and a mouthful of fish ponds sparkled under the sun.

"Open the meal!" At 10 am, the breeder held a bamboo pole on the ground for a while, and made a sound of "咚 咚", and then thrown out a white chicken shelf that only handled. The crocodile heard the familiar signal sound. They climbed ashore from the water and scrambled for food.

Seeing the huge crocodile of the body opened their mouths to bite the chicken shelves, the reporter of the Hubei Daily was a little shocked. "The greenhouse is equipped with protective facilities, and it is very safe." Yang Zhihua, chairman of the company, dispelled the reporter's concerns.

When dealing with the crocodile all day long, Yang Zhihua pointed his life habits. "Crocodile is a cold -blooded egg -raising animal. It is mainly eaten by fish, poultry, hare, frogs, etc., which are carnivorous animals." Yang Zhihua said, don't look at the crocodile head, but the amount of food is not large. About two. Because the crocodile has no stomach, it likes to open his mouth to dry the sun to absorb calories to help digestion.

According to reports, there are 68 factory -based smart crocodile warm sheds, 4,7600 square meters of warm sheds, 300,000 breeding capacity of commodity crocodiles, and more than 20,000 existing ponds. Crocodile and crocodiles are allowed to operate and use crocodile varieties. At the same time, 150,000 turtles, 100,000 tadpoles, and 100,000 four -person fish were released at the base fish pond.

"The scale of the base crocodile breeding is at the forefront of the country." Yang Zhihua introduced that the company has obtained the artificial breeding license and operating utilization permit issued by the company's forestry department and the aquatic product department, which is the leading enterprise of the provincial agricultural industrialization.

Oriental Crocodile Company adopts factory-based smart sheds to implement production processes such as sunlight, concentrated oxygen supply, central heating, controllable temperature, water quality filtering and disinfection, and cycle utilization. The water temperature is controlled at 32 ° C-34 ° C. It is the most suitable survival of crocodiles. surroundings. The company's own "Cross -Bencing House Factory Factory Technical Specification", approved by relevant departments, has become my country's first technical standard for crocodile breeding.

Veterans, the favorite crocodile industry

Yang Zhihua's crocodile is full of legend.

In 1993, Yang Zhihua joined the army to join the army and came to the Armed Police Hainan Provincial Corps from the village of Xiaogan. Due to his excellent performance, he was trained as a technical backbone. After one year of joining the army, he was selected to study at the Armed Police Guangzhou Police Dog School. Select it to the Department of Animal Husbandry of South China Agricultural University for further studies, which will have an inextricable bond with the breeding industry.

After retiring in 1996, Yang Zhihua had worked in security, opened fast food restaurants, planted peppers, and also opened pet shops. He had done trade. He slowly accumulated the first bucket of gold in a wave of twists and turns. In the meantime, he met a Chinese American and found that specialty animals such as crocodiles, turtles, and crickets have broad prospects, and have since entered the special aquaculture industry.

In 2003, Yang Zhihua registered and built a colorful turtle breeding base in Shunde, Guangzhou. In 2004, he established a special aquatic seedlings sales center in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, and established a sales network across the country. In 2007, he was invited by his hometown of Xiaogan City Government to return to his hometown to start a business and officially engaged in the crocodile industry.

Self -service people often help. At that time, the two crocodile farms in the province were selling crocodiles due to difficulty in operating. In the face of the opportunity of heaven, Yang Zhihua decisively shot and spent all the money to acquire. Later, based on these crocodiles, an incubation base was established in Hainan.

Today, in addition to the Xiaogan base, the company has a crocodile breeding base in Lingshui County, Hainan Province, with 4,000 kinds of crocodiles. "At present, there are more than 100,000 crocodiles in the two bases." Yang Zhihua said that in order to develop crocodile products, the company established two major R & D and operating centers in Wuhan and Guangzhou, and the series of products continued to go to the market.

The prospect is still tortuous

Crocodile leather shoes, leather bags, belts, essential oils, masks, protein peptides ... The reporter saw in the company's product exhibition hall, and various crocodile derivatives were full.

"Crocodile feeding has a high cost, and the derivative products developed are naturally expensive." Yang Zhihua said that the ordinary crocodile leather bags on the market moved thousands of yuan, and expensive in 10,000 yuan.

The crocodile is all treasures. Pork can be eaten, bones and blood have health care functions, and leather can make leather goods.

At present, the company has signed cooperation agreements with Professor Zheng Zhengjiong of Wuhan University and Zhengda Company to conduct a comprehensive development of crocodile deep processing products. It has launched more than 50 series of more than 50 series of crocodile protein peptides, crocodile bleelantal chelated calcium and crocodile essential oil. Species, covering nutritional products, health foods, cosmetics, biomedicals and skin tanning products. At the same time, the company obtained 4 invention patent rights and approved 7 corporate standards. In October 2017, the company was rated as a national high -tech enterprise. Yang Zhihua took out a box of crocodile protein peptide products and told reporters that he planned to go in three steps for the crocodile industry to gradually build a crocodile kingdom: build a base to achieve artificially large -scale farming of crocodile; , Seeking cooperation with large capital; deep processing, developing crocodile leather products, cosmetics and biological products, realizing scientific and technological innovation, and taking into account the integration of three industries.

The journey towards the big goal is not flat. The reporter learned that after the revenue of Xiaogan base reached the highest peak of 80 million yuan in 2019, due to various factors, it began to decline. Last year's revenue was only more than 30 million yuan, most of which were the income of mixed turtles in the fish pond.

The reason for analysis, Yang Zhihua said that one is that the production and processing costs are too high, and the other is that the market has not completely opened, and people have not fully accepted the function of the biological products of the crocodile; at the same time, biological products are greatly affected by policies.

During the interview, the reporter encountered two sellers from Xi'an and Beijing to negotiate cooperation with Oriental Crocodile Company, one of which was an Internet celebrity expert.

"Embrace the network platform, use short videos from the media, break through traditional marketing and promotion models, and expand market sales through online drainage." Yang Zhihua said that this year the company established a new media operation center in Wuhan, using online and offline management layouts to allow the management layout of online and offline to allow Customers understand and accept the excellent quality of crocodile.

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