Qilu Network Lightning News April 23 news The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and Hu Yanhe is also getting more and more anxious.
Hu Yanhe is 40 years old this year, nicknamed "Hu Da Bug", the reason why he is called such a name is because of the industry he is engaged in - raising golden cicadas.
The golden cicada is the larvae of the cicada, and in different regions it also has different names such as "knowing the monkey", "knowing the turtle", "festival old turtle" and so on. In the eyes of some sensitive people, this thing is avoided, but for more people, it is a summer delicacy.
Since 2005, Hu Yanhe has opened a golden cicada breeding cooperative in Yangxin, Shandong Province, and is still a little famous, not only has a company, specializing in contracting land to raise golden cicadas, but also thousands of farmers to cooperate with him.
However, on February 24 this year, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress passed the Decision on Completely Banning illegal wildlife trade, eliminating the bad habit of indiscriminately eating wild animals, and effectively protecting the people's life, health and safety, which is commonly known as the "Ban on Wild Animals", and suspended trade in the breeding industry of artificially bred wild animals. This makes many farmers who cooperate with Hu Yanhe uncertain, and they are most worried about whether they can do this matter of raising golden cicadas in the future.
Hu Yanhe said that once banned, the initial investment of many farmers can be adrift. "The cost input has been invested, and even some people have specially transferred the land and planted trees, which may be a desperate bet on the older people, and the loss to them can be imagined if they are killed."
Golden cicada farming is not only related to the livelihood of some people, but even to the industry in some places. In Dalukou Township, Liangshan, Shandong Province, in 2018, the province sent a rural revitalization service team to come here, in order to develop the local economy, in Xizhangbo and several nearby villages to carry out the golden cicada breeding industry, and now because of the uncertainty of the policy, the follow-up production plan has been temporarily stopped.
The picture above shows the woodland where golden cicadas are farmed
This is true of cicada farming, and scorpion farming faces the same dilemma.
The equation is a scorpion farmer in Yanzhou, Shandong Province, and since 2008, her farming scale has expanded from more than 30 square meters to 40 acres. At the same time, it also drove more than 600 farmers in the surrounding areas to engage in scorpion farming, and last year's equation was also shortlisted for the eleventh "National Rural Youth Prosperity Leader".
In recent years, as the state has increased its policy support for the Chinese medicine industry, the amount of scorpions has also increased year by year. Equation and the scorpions raised by her farmers are mostly purchased directly by pharmaceutical companies, so the benefits have been very good.
However, Equation also admits that the scorpions currently sold on the market are still dominated by wild whole scorpions, because the cost of artificial breeding of scorpions is higher than that of catching wild scorpions, so it has caused people to arrest indiscriminately, which also makes Equation and her farmers worried and implicated. "Worry about whether there will be a one-size-fits-all situation, in case you really don't let it be raised, this impact is still quite large" Equation is most worried about this situation.
In fact, whether it is a golden cicada or a scorpion, it belongs to special breeding, but because most of the special breeding industry started late, only twenty or thirty years, whether it is breeding technology, or quarantine, supervision is lack of clear standards, while the special breeding region is more prominent, all parts of the country have their own characteristic breeding, which also caused no clear competent department, such as the past quarantine by the animal husbandry department management, artificial breeding license issued by the forestry department. At the same time, there is also the problem of whitewashing, that is, the use of artificial breeding licenses obtained to breed certain wild animals in the name, but because of technical reasons, artificial breeding cannot be realized, so they turn to capturing wild animals from the wild and engaging in transportation, trade and consumption, but because of the documents, it has caused difficulties in national law enforcement. Under all kinds of chaos, the special breeding industry has shown a mixed phenomenon.
Professor Liu Yusheng of Shandong Agricultural University believes that Professor Liu Yusheng believes that in the history of human farming, large vertebrates have been continuously domesticated, forming today's animal husbandry, so the wild animals corresponding to domestic animals generally refer to vertebrates in the wild, and the biggest problem at present is that insects and other arthropods are in a vague area. The essence of agriculture is to develop and utilize the basic industrial sector of agricultural biological resources, which in the past was limited to large vertebrates due to conditions, and now we cannot limit ourselves to vertebrates.
On April 8, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, in accordance with the decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, published a notice on the National Inventory of Livestock and Poultry Genetic Resources for public comment. The Catalogue covers 18 species of traditional livestock and poultry and 13 species of special livestock and poultry, and some people refer to the Catalogue as the "List of Edible Terrestrial Animals". The simple understanding is that the livestock and poultry that enter this directory are edible, and those who do not enter this directory are not suitable for eating, and the golden cicada and scorpion are not in this directory. However, because this directory is still only for comments for the time being, the final result will wait for further information. The "Investigation" reporter consulted the Department of Natural Resources of Shandong Province, and the staff told reporters that at present, they have reported to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the State that they have requested that insects that can be artificially farmed such as golden cicadas and scorpions be included in the catalog, but the final result will wait for the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs to decide.
Lightning News reporter Deng Botao reported