Some people make a lot of money by raising golden cicadas, and they earn tens of millions a year; Some people regret coming in and losing their savings in a few years.
Lulou Town, Peixian County, Jiangsu Province is particularly famous in the cicada breeding circle, where thousands of buyers gather here in early June every year, some from first-tier cities in Beijing and Shanghai, and some from Jinan, Zhengzhou, and Shijiazhuang provincial capitals.
It is not an exaggeration to describe the popularity of the golden cicada as "snapped up". In early June, the number of golden cicadas has just been listed in small quantities, and one can often be sold for 1.5-3 yuan, which is a proper high price! Buyers are still buying like crazy, and the reason is not complicated: some people are willing to pay a high price to try it! In order to grab the golden cicada, some dealers ran to the golden cicada breeding base to squat, and waited for the farmers to catch the golden cicada and packed and shipped it overnight, so the next day there was an extra dish on the table: fried golden cicada, a cheap plate can be sold for more than a hundred yuan, and the expensive one can be sold for two or three hundred!
Liu Guisheng is a senior cicada buyer, every year he and a few friends will transfer to Shandong, Jiangsu, Hebei several cicada breeding provinces, ordinary buyers usually buy cicadas from retail investors, Liu Guisheng is different, he mainly cooperates with cicada farmers, so it is common to spend more than 400,000 yuan to buy 2 tons of cicadas a night!
By the way, the price of golden cicadas also shows significant regional and variety differences, for example, a pound of wild cicadas in Lishui, Zhejiang in mid-July can still be sold for 260 yuan, some citizens drive to the vicinity of the urban and rural junction to catch golden cicadas, a night up to 5 catties, daily income of more than 1,000 yuan, hard work 10 days to earn 10,000 yuan. By the time these cicadas reach consumers, the price has climbed to more than 400 yuan / jin.
In contrast, farmed cicadas are slightly less expensive, similar to many wild fish. Medicinal use has also led to an important reason for the soaring price of wild cicadas, which are rich in protein, amino acids, fatty acids and trace elements, and unsaturated fatty acids account for 77.27% of the fat content before metamorphosis. Studies have found that unsaturated fatty acids in cicadas can esterify cholesterol, which can improve endocrine and prevent cardiovascular disease.
Cicada shell is also a traditional Chinese medicine, with pharyngeal opening sound, diaphragm, wind and spasm relief, many old Chinese medicine practitioners will use cicada shell in the treatment of rubella itching and scabies. However, it is customary to use wild cicadas for medicinal use, which is related to the active characteristics of cicadas, and this is also the case for medicinal use of wild earthworms.
Cicada culture has developed rapidly, and several large-scale breeding bases have emerged
In the 80s of the last century, some people began to try to breed golden cicadas, but the production was low and small, and it ended in failure. The real development of cicada farming is after the end of the 90s, and out of control, Shandong, Jiangsu, Hubei, Anhui, Henan and other provinces have appeared in the main business of farmers and villages, and even the entire township is developing cicada culture.
Shandong cicada breeding is undoubtedly Yangxin County, Binzhou City, the golden cicada unearthing season alone in one market alone traded 300,000-400,000 cicadas per night! Lulou Town, Pei County, Jiangsu mentioned at the beginning is also one of the largest cicada breeding bases in the mainland, and more than 30 cicada breeding cooperatives have been established in the local area, which not only raise cicadas, sell cicadas, but also cultivate cicada seedlings, with customers throughout Shandong, Hebei, Shanxi and other provinces.
Wang Man, the head of a cicada breeding cooperative in Lulou Town, Pei County, Jiangsu Province, quit his job in a big city in 2011 and returned to his hometown to start cicada farming with his family! In her words: I have seen the cicada breeding industry develop and grow little by little, and I have also seen the price of cicadas soaring.
Indeed, the purchase price of cicadas just unearthed around 2010 did not exceed 0.6 yuan / piece, and in 2018 it rose to 0.7 / piece, and the highest purchase price of the first cicada unearthed in early June 2023 can reach 2-3 yuan / piece, and it is difficult to be lower than 0.9 yuan / unit after entering the peak period of production! Wang Man's family has a total of more than 200 acres, basically all of which are used to raise golden cicadas: if you manage it well, and then touch the market, one mu of golden cicada can earn 20,000 yuan; The management is not in place, and the maximum income of one mu of cicada is four or five yuan, or even only one or two thousand yuan, but this situation usually appears in novices. At present, most farmers produce between 8,000-9,000 yuan per acre.
Most experienced farmers like Wang Man have their own nursery farms, and Wang Man's family has seedling bases in Shandong and Henan, and the cicada seedlings are sold to small farmers nearby. There are two trading methods for cicada seedlings, one is to sell egg branches, each egg branch is 0.3 yuan to 0.5 yuan, and there are about 100 to 400 cicada ants in the egg branches; the other is to sell live cicada ants, there are 3,000 cicada ants per gram, selling for 20 yuan. Generally speaking, the survival rate of planting live cicada ants is about 10%, which is less than 20% of egg branches, so the sales of egg branches are better, and some large cicada farmers earn millions a year by selling egg branches!
Although cicada farming is highly profitable, it is not suitable for everyone, and some people have lost money because of raising golden cicadas
The reason why Lulou Town has become the largest cicada breeding base on the mainland is inseparable from the local environment. The cicada is suitable for growing in sandy soil, which accounts for 70% of the total land in Lulou Town. In addition, the golden cicada is used to breeding under poplars, apple trees, and willow trees, which can grow in Lulou Town! That is to say, it is not difficult for the golden cicada to grow in Lulou Town, especially dry or rainy places are not very suitable for raising golden cicadas, if this is the case in the hometown, raising golden cicadas should be leisurely!
The cost of cicada farming is not low. In the past, the relevant departments were not very strict in the management of agricultural land, and many farmers contracted dozens of acres, hundreds of acres of forest land, and agricultural land to plant trees and raise cicadas, and the cheaper acre of land was only a few hundred yuan! What now? On the one hand, planting trees and raising golden cicadas will be strictly approved, and it is difficult to apply for more than ten acres or dozens of acres of land at a time; On the other hand, the rent of one mu of land reaches 1000-1500 yuan / mu, and these costs will be transferred to the cicada, resulting in the purchase price of the cicada and the old farmers have no advantage!
In addition, newcomers are also easy to plant on cicada seedlings. Golden cicadas are divided into 3-year cicadas, 5-year cicadas, 7-year cicadas and 17-year cicadas, which refer to the time required for golden seedlings to break through the soil from entering the soil to breaking the soil, most of the cultured cicadas need 3-5 years to break the ground, 17 years cicada is a species in the United States, every 17 years will only appear. Some unscrupulous businesses take advantage of the newcomers' eagerness to see the benefits, advocating that their cicada seedlings can break the ground in 2 years, and finally the investment is completely lost.
What Potato wants to say is that although the current supply of cicadas in the market is less than demand, it is still necessary to be cautious when entering this circle!
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Original: Potatoes