"The rice and shrimp co-culture base has just been caught, fresh, pollution-free, and is shipping to you." Recently, in the crayfish trading market in Dongliu Town, the person in charge Ji Wei counted and verified the delivery order while video calling with customers, and the logistics truck on the side was ready to go, and not far away was a piece of rice and shrimp breeding base.
The trading market is busy, and workers are busy in an orderly manner to buy, sort, pack, pack and pack crayfish for distribution to all parts of the country. "From 6 a.m. to more than 5 p.m., the daily salary is 150 yuan, and a shrimp season can earn about 9,000 yuan." Sorter Nguyen Chun Lian said with a smile. In Dongliu Town, there are more than 500 people like Ruan Chunlian working in the crayfish trading market and rice shrimp base.
At present, it is the season when crayfish are on the market, and the purchase and sale of crayfish in Dongliu Town are booming. "At present, more than 800,000 jin has been acquired, with a transaction volume of 12 million yuan, mainly sold to Zhejiang, Shanghai and other Yangtze River Delta areas and Hubei crayfish deep processing plants through online malls." Ji Wei told reporters that the rice shrimp co-cultured crayfish are clean and pollution-free, have a good taste, and are favored by consumers.
"This year, 400 mu of farmland has been transferred to cultivate rice and shrimp, and 16,000 catties of crayfish have been sold, with sales of 210,000 yuan." Zheng Xiaomao, general manager of Anhui Shunfeng Agricultural Development Co., Ltd., said happily that an acre of land produces about 120 kilograms of crayfish and 400 kilograms of high-quality rice, and the benefit is 4 times that of traditional planting, and the high-quality rice he planted in 2020 won the gold medal in the province's high-quality shrimp rice competition.
In recent years, Dongzhi County has adjusted the structure of the agricultural industry, adapted to local conditions, encouraged Dongliu, Dadukou, Xiangyu, Shengli and other townships to vigorously promote the comprehensive rice-fishery breeding model such as rice shrimp, rice turtle, and rice frog through land circulation, and vigorously promoted "one water for multiple uses, one field for more harvests."
In the 700-acre rice and shrimp base of Jujiangting Family Farm in Dongzhi County, more than a dozen workers are skillfully busy collecting cages and sorting crayfish. "The family's farmland is transferred to the base, usually our husband and wife work in the base, responsible for shrimp farming, feeding, shrimp fishing and other management work, a year to do 10 months of salary of 70,000 yuan, plus the circulation rent almost 80,000 yuan of income, life is full and happy." Li Shengwang, 65, said happily.
"Boss, spicy crayfish and steamed crayfish each." "I just love the taste." For several days, the Huike Lobster Experience Hall in Dongliu Town was full every day at noon. Opened a lobster experience hall, built a new Dongliu food city, held a crayfish fishing competition... Crayfish-themed catering festivals, recreational fishing, tourism and other industries continue to integrate and develop.
"By the end of 2020, the town will develop a rice and shrimp breeding area of 12,000 mu, with an annual output of 3 million catties of crayfish and 8.4 million catties of high-quality rice, with a comprehensive output value of more than 100 million yuan." The relevant person in charge of Dongliu Town said that to promote rural revitalization, industrial revitalization is the key.
It is understood that in order to lengthen the whole industrial chain of online and offline crayfish, Dongzhi County has worked hard from breeding, cold chain, warehousing, processing and other links to build 8 crayfish acquisition comprehensive markets in the county, more than 20 crayfish experience catering, 1 crayfish deep processing plant, to create rice brands such as "Jujiang" and "Shrimp rice music", and to build an "Internet + rice shrimp" e-commerce platform.
"This year, the total area of comprehensive rice and fishery planting in the county is 68,000 mu, of which 66,000 mu are rice and shrimp farming. Next, while vigorously promoting the rice and fishery planting model, we will make efforts in cultivating high-quality shrimp fry, selling shrimp early and selling prawns, deep processing and brand building, etc., to achieve a new pattern of 'win-win situation between grain and fisheries' and boost rural revitalization." Cheng Wenping, director of the county aquatic industry development center, introduced.
It is reported that in 2020, the county's rice and fishery comprehensive breeding area of 65,000 mu, of which 64,000 mu of rice and shrimp farming, sold outside the province accounted for 75%, to achieve a comprehensive output value of rice and shrimp 300 million yuan.