What are the prospects for farming the yellow pond turtle?
Yellow pond turtle farming is an emerging industry in recent years and is currently one of the more influential farming industries. As it has developed to this day, the market has gone through ups and downs, and farmers have experienced both joy and worry. Therefore, although the prospects for yellow pond turtle farming are very broad and the farming benefits are high, certain risks also exist. Below, let us take a look at the farming prospects for the yellow pond turtle!
Farming prospects for the yellow pond turtle
1. Food value: The meat of the yellow pond turtle is tender, nutritious and delicious. Turtle meat and turtle blood are rich in protein, keratin, animal glue, vitamins, phosphorus, calcium, blood sugar and other elements essential to the human body, and are a high-grade nutritional tonic and an excellent food for preventing and treating diseases. Regular consumption of turtle meat can enhance disease resistance, beautify the skin and prolong life.
2. Medical value: Yellow pond turtle meat has effects such as nourishing yin and strengthening yang, removing dampness and detoxifying, preventing and fighting cancer, benefiting the liver and moistening the lungs, and nourishing yin and replenishing blood. It can treat consumptive fever with bone-steaming, chronic cough with blood-streaked sputum, bloody dysentery, hemorrhoidal bleeding, and pain in the muscles and bones, and has obvious therapeutic effects on venereal diseases, nephritis, stomach diseases and various difficult and complicated diseases. Turtle blood can treat rectal prolapse and traumatic injuries. Turtle plastron is a main raw material for Chinese patent medicines, such as “Duanban Turtle Injection” for treating pulmonary tuberculosis and as adjuvant therapy for cancer, Dabuyin Pills, DahuoLuo Dan and Heche Dazao Pills, all of which use turtle plastron as a main ingredient. When turtle plastron is combined with turtle shell, it has a relatively good therapeutic effect on treating cirrhosis. There are also turtle plastron glue, Duanban turtle tablets, turtle-snake wine, turtle-deer paste, cordyceps turtle essence, golden turtle oral liquid, turtle jelly and so on, all of which are famous at home and abroad.
3. Low farming cost: The farming cost of the yellow pond turtle is low, making it suitable for household farming. At present, other industries are generally depressed, and the method of raising yellow pond turtles at home is simple. It only requires a balcony or room of a few square meters, and feeding once every 1-2 days with fish, shrimp, poultry viscera, insects, or melons and fruit is enough. It can be said that all households are suitable for raising turtles. The yellow pond turtle has a small food intake and can even be fed once a month. The workload of farming is small, there is no need for dedicated workers to feed them, and no taxes or fees need to be paid.
4. Independent operation: Farming yellow pond turtles is an independent business. Whether to buy or sell is entirely up to the farmer, with flexible control and no seasonality at all. For example, if a farmer raises 100 turtle hatchlings this year, and next year they grow to several liang in weight and the profit reaches his target, he can choose to sell. If the profit does not reach his target, he can choose not to sell, wait until the next year to sell, or continue farming until his profit target is reached before selling, because the feeding cost of yellow pond turtle hatchlings is very low (they eat little, can be fed once every 10 or more days, and require no dedicated worker management), while their body weight and value increase year by year. The older they get, the more valuable they are, and each additional year accumulates another year of profit. When the profit reaches his target, he then sells.
5. Large market demand: Because the quantity of turtles consumed as food is large and the time frame is short (a family can eat 1-2 commercial yellow pond turtles, which require 3-4 years to farm, in just a few hours one evening), a reasonable meat-turtle price will push large numbers of yellow pond turtles into the food market, and the problem of unsalable yellow pond turtles will gradually be solved. History can prove this. In 2005 and 2006, after the price of commercial yellow pond turtles fell from breeding-turtle prices to meat-turtle prices, large numbers of commercial yellow pond turtles were sold to restaurants, teahouses and the dining tables of some middle- and high-income groups, thereby gradually reversing the then-existing oversupply and poor sales situation for commercial yellow pond turtles. After that, the market trend from 2007 to 2011 saw yellow pond turtle prices rise year by year.
Market outlets for the yellow pond turtle
1. Food sales outlets: Commercial yellow pond turtles (that is, commercial turtles not suitable for breeding, including greenhouse turtles and fast-growing meat turtles) are mainly sold to restaurants, teahouses and urban residents. Yellow pond turtle meat and blood are rich in multiple vitamins and various elements needed by the human body, and are a high-grade nutritional tonic and an excellent food for preventing and treating diseases. Regular consumption can enhance disease resistance, beautify the skin and prolong life. Many regions in China have the habit of eating yellow pond turtles, and there are many ways to prepare turtles as food. Relatively high-end restaurants and teahouses generally offer a series of yellow pond turtle dishes. With the improvement of living standards, the number of urban residents eating turtles is increasing day by day.
2. Medicinal sales outlets: A large amount of scientific research and practice at home and abroad shows that the body of the yellow pond turtle is rich in protein, keratin, animal glue, vitamins, phosphorus, calcium, blood sugar and other elements essential to the human body. The turtle plastron, limb bones, flat bones and bone marrow also contain hematopoietic cells, and have effects such as nourishing yin and strengthening yang, removing dampness and detoxifying, preventing and fighting cancer, benefiting the liver and moistening the lungs, and nourishing yin and replenishing blood. They can treat consumptive fever with bone-steaming, chronic cough with blood-streaked sputum, bloody dysentery, hemorrhoidal bleeding, and pain in the muscles and bones, and have obvious therapeutic effects on venereal diseases, nephritis, stomach diseases and various difficult and complicated diseases. Turtle blood can treat rectal prolapse and traumatic injuries. Turtle plastron is a main raw material for Chinese patent medicines, such as “Duanban Turtle Injection” for treating pulmonary tuberculosis and as adjuvant therapy for cancer, Dabuyin Pills, DahuoLuo Dan and Heche Dazao Pills, all of which use turtle plastron as a main ingredient. When turtle plastron is combined with turtle shell, it has a relatively good therapeutic effect on treating cirrhosis. Turtle plastron glue, Duanban turtle tablets, turtle-snake wine, turtle-deer paste, cordyceps turtle essence, golden turtle oral liquid, turtle jelly and so on are also famous at home and abroad.
3. Pet sales outlets: Turtles have always been regarded as symbols of auspiciousness, longevity and nobility, and are known as the “king of mascots” and the “star of longevity.” They are treasures for warding off evil and blocking misfortune, averting disasters and avoiding harm, and securing the home and attracting wealth. Many people raise turtles to pray for good fortune and blessings. Many people raise turtles to pray for good fortune and blessings, and when moving into a new home they also buy several yellow pond turtles to secure the home and attract wealth. At the same time, the yellow pond turtle has a gentle temperament, is full of spirituality, and is extremely elegant and beautiful, delighting the eye and heart. Raising turtles in front of or behind the house or on a rooftop balcony can improve residents' living and living environment. Viewing turtles as pets after meals and tea can cultivate interest, nourish the mind and please the emotions, with endless joy. Many families keep them at home to display nobility and wealth and to improve their quality of life. With the increase in urban residents' awareness of the value of the yellow pond turtle, the yellow pond turtle has gradually become an excellent gift.
4. Wealth-building sales outlets: This type of sales outlet mainly sells high-quality yellow pond turtle hatchlings. At present, the state encourages artificial farming of turtles and soft-shelled turtles. The farming profit and medicinal and food value of the yellow pond turtle are both relatively high, and the method of household farming of the yellow pond turtle is very simple. As long as there is a rooftop, balcony, room or pond and some funds (more funds means raising more, less funds means raising fewer), it can be farmed. Therefore, the demand for high-quality yellow pond turtle hatchlings is relatively large (it is worth mentioning that professionally produced high-quality yellow pond turtle hatchlings sell relatively well, and the market is prone to passing off inferior goods as superior, or even selling unqualified hatchlings as high-quality hatchlings, which will bring adverse effects on both the sales of hatchlings and the benefits of farmers).