Farmers who have grown rice must be very distressed about such things as grass worms. However, recently, in the Guangdong region, the price of grass worms has soared, selling a high price of 150 yuan / catty, which is countless times higher than the price of rice itself!
Why can such an obnoxious bug sell for such a high price? The answer is: Cantonese people love to eat grass worms!
Grass worms have become the new favorite of Cantonese people
The price of grass worms is relatively expensive, selling a high price of 80-150 yuan a catty in the vegetable market, but there are still many friends who buy it to taste it, especially people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas.
There are two seasons of the year to eat grass worms, the third and fourth months of the lunar calendar out of the water grass worms called "lychee worms", this period of grass worms are small in size, eat when fishy.
Every year around the eighth and ninth months of the lunar calendar, the water of the grass worms called "autumn equinox worms", also known as "grass flower worms", this season of grass worms is the best of the year, not only a large number, and the body is plump and tender, full of pulp, especially delicious.
In Guangdong, steamed eggs, bowl stewed worms, crispy fried worms, pork belly peanuts and beans stew worms, etc., are all very popular dishes in restaurants, according to them: this dish is full of flavor.
The number is small, resulting in high prices
Grass insects only grow in the topsoil layer of the estuarine waters, and break out of the soil when the rice spikes are pregnant in the morning and evening, and the meat is fatty and delicious. It is mainly found in Zhejiang, Guangdong and Fujian provinces.
Because the grass worms are very picky about the living environment, they must be in the rice field at the confluence of brackish water, so the number of current output is not much, and there are not many bases for breeding grass worms.
Picture: Fanzhou grass insect breeding base in Lianzhou Town
So what do you do if you want to farm grass worms?
Key points of grass pest breeding technology
1. Establish a place for planting insects and seedlings
Breeding grass insects, first of all, to establish a grass insect seedling site, can be divided into two parts of the canopy and the farm, the canopy roof selects film and shading net material to build, and the breeding tank should be built in the awning.
Choose the right mud, the general river surface slurry is good, after the selection of sufficient filtration, the filtered mud in the breeding tank, while adjusting the salinity.
2. Select the breeding worm to fertilize
Select the filtered water and pour it into the rubber box, and put an oxygen pump in a rubber box to ensure its sufficient oxygen.
In general, male and female insects with bright colors, full individuals, robustness, and no injuries can be used as breeding insects, and then the selected breeding insects are placed in a rubber box filled with water to naturally fertilize them.
3. Feeding points
After the larvae of the grass worm have grown to the third section of the worm, it is time to start feeding. When the larval holes are found in the soil, the water in the trough can be drained, and the prepared food can be sprinkled on top of the mud for the grass worms to eat.
The next day, the filtered into the breeding tank, half a month later, the cultivation is completed, can be put into the rice field for breeding.