Not taking the usual path, daring to change, aquaculture "leading goose" Menli

<b>Menli (right) checks the change in salinity of seawater during shrimp fry desalination. (Data map) Lei Renjun photo</b>

Urumqi, March 3 (Xinhuan) -- "Only by constantly innovating and updating new varieties can we not be eliminated by the market and earn money." This is a sentence often said by Men Li, a female worker of the Third Company of the 222nd Regiment of the 12th Division of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps.

In recent years, the 222nd Regiment has continuously increased the transformation of the company, and the 3nd Company of the Regiment has relied on its unique water resources and tourism resources, and many employees have developed aquaculture, farm farms, fishing and so on. In aquaculture, Mengli and his wife do not take the usual road, dare to change, rely on the cultivation of South American white shrimp to embark on the road to prosperity, and become the "leading geese" of company aquaculture.

At first, she grew hops in the company like other workers, but she did not earn money every year, and her family lived a tight life.

"At that time, getting married, the new house was bought with a loan, and the pressure was really great." At that time, Menli said, growing hops, sweating a lot of investment, and not yet fruitful, it was difficult to pay off the mortgage every year, let alone get rich.

In 2004, in order to change the status quo, Menli began to learn fish farming techniques and began the road of aquaculture. "At that time, I thought that Sanlian was so close to Fukang City, and there was an ice lake reservoir, there was no shortage of water, and farming should be better than farming."

"When I first started raising fish, that is, raising the common four major fish, but due to lack of experience, I was also in debt for a year." According to Menli, in a casual conversation with an aquatic product dealer, the couple found a piece of wealth information, that is, the cultivation of yellow spicy ding, yellow spicy ding is not so squeamish, easy to live, fast results, and large returns.

When all was said and done, the two raised funds everywhere to introduce a new variety of yellow spicy ding.

Yellow spicy ding is 3 years old, Menli found that the aquaculture households in the surrounding areas have begun to breed yellow spicy ding, although the beginning of the large number of breeding of yellow spicy ding has not affected their own price and market, but she resolutely gave up the cultivation of yellow spicy ding. "The market is so big that sooner or later it will be sluggish, and we feel that we must renew the variety."

Subsequently, Menli introduced a new species of green yellow croaker, although this fish is more difficult to raise than yellow spicy ding, the growth cycle is longer, and it is a cold-water fish, but the market demand is very large. In this way, the unusual Menli introduced the green yellow croaker into her own fish pond.

Men li said: "After three or four years of breeding, the surrounding aquaculture households have also followed up with the breeding, we are ready to change the species, I heard that the shrimp in wujiaqu is very popular, we have not yet farmed, we try to raise shrimp." ”

In 2012, the couple who had no experience in shrimp farming embarked on the road of cultivating South American white shrimp, at that time, they were the first shrimp farmer in three companies, when others watched, the couple silently studied shrimp farming technology, after continuous exploration, the first year of shrimp farming has obtained good returns.

"In the beginning, every day was worrying, and the shrimp was carefully fed like a child, afraid that it would be affected by temperature and water quality." Mentioning the scene of the first year of shrimp farming, Menli still remembers it vividly.

After the success of shrimp farming, Mengli and his wife expanded the breeding area for several consecutive years, and finally reached 20 acres of water, and the annual profit increased year by year, relying on the net income of shrimp farming in 2016 to reach more than 200,000 yuan.

The couple in their own wealth at the same time, but also play a demonstration and leading role, a few years, two two groups three consecutive South American white shrimp farmers increased from 1 to 5, the entire Xinjiang market farmers are more, how to stand out in the market, Menli has a new idea.

Every year in the middle of July, there are very few live shrimp in the market, but Menli's shrimp is already on the market, and its secret is the greenhouse. The use of greenhouses can enter the shrimp fry early, early in the market, a "morning" word has become the magic weapon of the Door Li husband and wife market competition.

Nowadays, the shrimp farmed by Mengli and his wife has long become the signboard of the surrounding areas of Fukang, and wholesalers in Karamay, Urumqi and other places have come to buy it, because her family's South American white shrimp farming quality is good, the size is symmetrical, the market is early, and the wholesale volume of hundreds of kilograms per day makes the couple busy. (<b>This article is transferred from [</b><b>China News Network</b><b>].) If you have copyright questions, please contact</b> [email protected]<b>. </b>）