The autumn wind rises, the crab legs are itchy, and the crab roe is fat. At present, it is the best period for crabs to eat, the rice field crabs in Shentou Town, Shuocheng District, are growing fat, officially entering the peak sales season, and local farmers catch and sell from morning to night every day, ushering in the busiest moment. Shentou Town makes full use of the unique water source advantage of Shentou Spring Water to develop rice planting, and breeds river crabs in the rice fields, which greatly improves the rice quality and rice crab production through the three-dimensional ecological planting and breeding mode of "rice and crab symbiosis", and effectively improves the land utilization rate, realizes the dual use of one water, one field and double income, and doubles profits. The "rice-crab co-culture" model has become a "magic weapon to increase income" for local farmers.
In the thousand-acre rice planting base in Xiguan Village, Shentou Town, Shuocheng District, not only rice is planted here, but also river crabs are raised. In the past few days, the rice crabs here have officially ushered in the harvest period, and farmers are seizing the favorable opportunity to concentrate on the rice crabs and then sell them to the market.
In the rice fields, plump river crabs have fat bodies and strong claws, and they lazily "take a leisurely walk" after eating. Shi Yunbao, a large farmer, is wandering among the rice fields with the workers, looking for rice crabs.
In the past few days, Shi Yunbao has been very busy, fishing and selling at the same time, opening the best-selling curtain of the festival, and the rice crabs here are in short supply every day.
Shi Yunbao said that they are very busy these days, and they can sell 5 or 6 hundred catties of crabs a day, and the sales are very good.
The reason why Shi Yunbao's rice crabs are in demand is not only because of his good breeding skills, but also because of the local Shentou spring water. Shentou Spring belongs to the karst spring group, rich in minerals and trace elements, and the water temperature is kept at about 14 °C all year round, which is a very high-quality water source for planting rice and breeding rice crabs, and the rice crabs raised are fresh and sweet. Shi Yunbao has been breeding rice crabs for four years, with the continuous improvement of breeding technology, the breeding area has gradually expanded from the initial dozens of acres to 300 acres today, the yield and benefits of rice crabs are very considerable.
Shi Yunbao told us that he invested more than 4,000 catties of crab seedlings this year, and the finished rice crab is estimated to be about 7 or 8 thousand catties, which has been on the market for nearly 4 days, and has walked nearly 1,500 catties, and the benefits are considerable.
River crab for rice loosening soil, weeding, insect catching, fertilization, rice for river crab purification environment, provide shelter, rice crab mutuality and mutual benefit, not only improve the quality of rice, river crab is also more fat, so that the farmland produces the best comprehensive benefits. Nowadays, driven by Shi Yunbao, the "rice and crab symbiosis" industry in Shentou Town is "all the way to the sun", and the rice crab breeding area is also gradually expanding. The three-dimensional ecological planting and breeding model of "one water for two purposes and one land for double income" has not only become a new channel for farmers in Shentou Town to increase their income and get rich, but also a new bright spot in the local adjustment of agricultural industrial structure.
Source: This is Shuozhou
Editor: Ma Shijie
Re-examination: Li Chi
Final review: Yang Qiang