Li Daogui, known as "Grandpa Worm", is the founder and chairman of Huai'an Suyuan Biotechnology Co., Ltd., and a celebrity in northern Jiangsu. He grew up listening to the story of the turtle insects, which were the expectations of his ancestors and the cause he fought for all his life.
Huai'an Suyuan Biotechnology Co., Ltd., formerly known as "Huai'an Special Breeding Base for the Disabled", "Huai'an Hongze Li Daogui Insect Farm", is located in Huai'an Salinization New Material Industrial Park, which has more than 40 years of breeding foundation. Talking about ground turtles, Li Daogui has endless breeding experience. In 1982, after Li Daogui retired to his hometown as a disabled soldier, he operated passenger transport, planted flower seedlings, and began to do turtle breeding in 2000. "At that time, two hundred acres of land were planned to develop turtle insects, and because of an emergency, when they returned in ten days, most of the turtles were dead." Watching all the good causes ruined, Li Daogui did not indulge in failure, he relied on the character of a soldier who did not accept defeat to sum up lessons and start again. He first converted the old house in his hometown into a breeding factory, which arranged three rectangular breeding rooms and built several small bungalows as a breeding farm. Under the careful cultivation and cooking of Li Daogui, the current turtle breeding site of Li Daogui has an area of more than 200 square meters, with a total of 25 million insects.
Li Daogui's first relationship was when he was seven or eight years old, he found a few round black worms on the stove of his grandmother's house, while shouting loudly at the black bugs, while trampling it to death with his feet, Li Daogui's grandfather found out and pulled him aside to introduce him to the value of turtles. Since then, the ground turtle insect has left an indelible impression on Li Daogui's young mind, the earth turtle insect can cure diseases and save people, and is the treasure of rural people. With the expectations of his ancestors, Li Daogui began to learn the turtle breeding technology at the age of 16 and made a fortune by relying on the "golden bug". Li Daogui is the eldest in the family, his father's work salary is very low, his mother earns work to support the family, need to support their five brothers, life is very hard, Li Daogui and his brothers often do not have enough to eat and wear, from then on, Li Daogui began to raise turtles to reduce the burden on the family. In the early days of ground turtle breeding, due to limited conditions, he built a small bed on top of the earth kang, he slept on it, and the ground turtle was raised in the earth pit below, and he ate with the ground turtle every day and slept together. Li Daogui has an economic income since raising turtles, and his family conditions have gradually improved.
Li Daogui's indissoluble relationship with the turtle insect did not end with his conscription. When Li Daogui retired from the army, due to his disability, no unit was willing to accept it, and after he returned to his hometown, he returned to his old business to raise turtles. In addition to learning breeding techniques, Li Daogui also read a large number of drug history books, he found that many history books have an account of the application of turtle insects, ground turtle insect taste: salty, spicy, cold, slightly toxic, into the liver, heart and spleen three meridians, specialized treatment of hemorrhage, with the elimination of epilepsy, loose knots, blood smothering, bone connection, swelling and pain relief, lower breast path and other functions. With people's understanding of the ground turtle insects more and more, the amount of ground turtle insects is also getting larger and larger, Li Daogui found that the use of ground turtle insects is too backward, because of the lack of drugs in the past, the turtles are caught directly into the medicine, mashed pulp or into the bowl decoction, the pulp is difficult to drink, the soup is difficult to drink, fishy and smelly, and finally most of the insect bodies are poured out as slag, so that the utilization rate of medicinal materials is not only low, but now according to the previous way of entering the medicine, no one has eaten, Li Daogui began to think about how to develop the fishy and smelly ground turtle into a professional health medicine or delicacy.
After Li Daogui made up his mind, he began to study and investigate in many ways, he carefully selected and bred turtles in the north and south, and after many north-south hybridizations, he selected and bred fine products in new varieties. Kung Fu pays off, Li Daogui finally selected the ground turtle species not only has a large individual, thick flesh and delicious taste, but also has a high medicinal value, which has been recognized by many consumers. After the first success, Li Daogui also considered that the value of the turtle insect was too single, began to find ways to increase the added value of the turtle product, under Li Daogui's research, "Chinese turtle capsule" was born, becoming a health care drug approved by the Ministry of Health. Li Daogui found that the cost of ground turtles is low, breeding is fast, feeding scorpions with ground turtles can greatly improve the adaptability, disease resistance, survival rate and growth rate of scorpions, which can be used as feed for birds, fish and other animals, while the larvae of ground turtles can also be used as bait fishing, which greatly improves the added value of turtles.
A single tree is not a forest. Li Daogui, who came from a rural military background, is well aware of the difficulties of veterans, laid-off workers and disabled people to earn money and start a business, he has served as a presidium member of the disabled persons' federation organizations at the city and county levels for more than ten years, a member of the presidium of the association for the physical disability, and has volunteered to compile three sets of breeding teaching materials for the Huai'an Disabled Persons' Federation, training several batches of local turtles and other insect breeding technicians free of charge, and the ground turtle breeding base has become a base for the Huai'an Disabled Persons' Federation to promote the employment and entrepreneurship of the disabled, helping many veterans. Laid-off workers and disabled people have lifted themselves out of poverty and are on the road to prosperity.
It is understood that Huai'an Suyuan Biotechnology Co., Ltd. is developing a series of health care products such as "instant ground turtle insects", "turtle health capsules", "turtle health wine" and so on. For the company's development prospects, Li Daogui is full of confidence, "In recent years, the turtle worm has been exported to all countries in the world, has become a new industry in the Huaiyin area of Jiangsu Province, I want to turn the turtle worm into a "golden worm", bigger, stronger, more refined, so that more people can enjoy the benefits of the turtle industry. "