What are the prospects for sika deer farming? Understanding the market in one article
With the rapid development of our country's economy, people's living standards have risen from merely having enough food and clothing to a relatively comfortable level, creating new demands in people's lives, and a brand-new industry has emerged before us. This offers farmers, who find it hard to go out to work and even harder to get rich, a chance to change their destiny. It provides broad room for development for college students who find it hard to find employment and even harder to start a business. For investors who find it hard to find projects and face long payback periods, it offers an ideal investment space -- scientifically farming sika deer, taking the road to rapid wealth!
Prospects for Sika Deer Farming
The sika deer is a national first-class protected animal. Its coat is brightly colored, with orderly scattered white spots on the red-brown fur covering its whole body, shaped like plum blossoms, which is how it got its name. Every part of the sika deer is valuable: velvet, antlers, teeth, bones, meat, marrow, brain, essence, blood, kidney, gallbladder, skin, feces and fetus can all be used as medicine. In particular, velvet antler, taken from the unossified young antlers of male deer, can regulate the body's metabolism and enhance physiological functions. Especially for the elderly and frail and for people weakened by illness, it has a clear effect in restoring physical condition and strengthening muscles and bones, and it is a traditionally precious Chinese medicine.
In recent years, the international trade volume of velvet antler and deer products has continued to expand. They sell very well in South Korea, Japan, Southeast Asian countries and the Hong Kong and Macao regions of China, and prices keep rising. The economic benefits of sika deer farming are very notable, making it an ideal project for developing high-efficiency animal husbandry.
It is understood that our country has a long history of deer farming, is one of the world's major deer-producing countries, and was also the earliest country to use deer products for medicine and health care. Our country's deer farming industry is developing rapidly, and in some research fields it is at the international leading level.
Feed for Sika Deer Farming
Traditional feed is basically still used. Roughage mainly includes various tree leaves, mountain grass, corn stalks, peanut vines, sweet potato vines and so on, while concentrate mainly includes soybean cake, soybean meal, sunflower seed cake, cottonseed cake, peanut cake and so on. There are many kinds of feed that can be used to raise deer, and their sources are relatively wide, so the potential for developing the deer industry is very great.
Processing and Sales of Deer Products
The processing method for velvet antler has changed from the past method of mainly boiling in water and then air-drying and baking to the present method of mainly far-infrared microwave baking, with boiling in water as a supplement. Of the processed velvet antler, blood-containing velvet accounts for about 80%, and non-blood velvet accounts for 20%. Now Hua Er Kang, Hua San Cha and sika deer are all made into blood-containing velvet. As for sales channels for velvet antler, the domestic market accounts for 30%-40%, mainly used as raw material for Chinese herbal medicine and in folk health products. The other 60%-70% of velvet antler is sold through Hong Kong, China and Shenzhen to Southeast Asian countries. In addition, whole-branch velvet antler is mainly exported directly to South Korea.
Development and Utilization of Deer Products
Our country's deer product processing equipment and processing techniques have both made considerable progress in recent years. Among the products with higher technological content are deer products such as Yihechun and Anshen Bunao Ye produced by the Aodong Pharmaceutical Group.
In addition, there are many manufacturers producing deer products such as deer blood and velvet blood oral liquids, various blood wines, powders, pastes and daily cosmetics. The market potential is relatively large and the benefits are very good.
Research Achievements in the Deer Industry
Our country's deer farming research team is strong, with advanced technical levels. Its research work is at the forefront of the world and has produced many research results. For example, Beijing Xiangrong Deer Industry's sika deer domestication and free-range rearing technology and sika deer fawn domestication and rearing technology have achieved many major research results, including sika deer breeding and selection.
Sika Deer Farming Market
The sika deer is a specialty of our country. The deer breed is good, with high velvet yield and excellent quality, and this breed ranks first in the world. As people's living standards continue to improve, demand for health products is also increasing, and velvet antler has relatively high prestige and reputation among health products, so the domestic market potential is large.
In addition, our country's velvet antler has a high reputation and good prices on the international market. In particular, South Korea and Southeast Asian countries have a good impression of our country's velvet antler, and exports have very strong competitiveness.
Reminders for Sika Deer Farming
In sika deer farming, introducing breeding stock is key and determines the success or failure of the entire farming operation, so breeding stock must be introduced from legitimate deer farms: look at scale, look at service, look at reputation. Before farming, it is best to do market research and understand market demand. When buying deer, it is best to choose a legitimate breeding farm.