What is the market prospect for scorpion farming?

With the founding of New China, the livestock industry gradually developed, scorpion farming was gradually developed as well, and the scale of the scorpion farming industry slowly expanded and gradually gained acceptance among people. In addition, with China's support for the breeding industry, the development efforts in livestock sectors such as cattle and sheep farming are also limited, so another new product was needed at this time, and the scorpion farming industry emerged as the times required, with promising prospects.

At present, the prospect for scorpion farming in China has already formed a pattern in which special poultry, special mammals and special aquatic products advance side by side. Many varieties have mature technology and relatively stable markets, and commercial-scale production has already taken shape.

After China's accession to the WTO, the world economy gradually became integrated, and the trade industry that once had relatively high profits has shifted into a low-profit stage, and there will no longer be huge windfall profits. As for developing industry, the risk is even higher; if not handled well, production may stop, the business may go bankrupt, and all the capital may be lost. Ordinary planting and breeding such as rice, wheat, pigs and chickens will suffer a relatively big impact due to market saturation and become unprofitable, while special breeding industries, because the market lacks similar products, will be the new “golden industry”. In addition, very few people know the production technology, so scorpion farming will have huge room for development, its prospects are very bright, and operators will have great “money prospects”.

Policy Support

Scorpion is a traditional precious medicinal product. In ancient times, people already recognized that scorpions have peculiar effects in preventing and treating diseases. At present, there are more than 60 kinds of medicinal products made with scorpion, and there are more than a hundred kinds of decoctions prepared with scorpion. In many countries around the world that use traditional Chinese medicinal products, such as the United States, Japan, Singapore and India, medicinal scorpions are mainly imported from China. Wild scorpion resources are increasingly depleted. At present, scorpion output can only reach 10% of market demand, and supply is extremely scarce. Artificial scorpion farming can both protect wild resources and meet the needs of domestic and foreign markets, and has the advantages of low investment, quick results, low labor intensity and no pollution. Commodity scorpions are in short supply and prices keep rising, so the prospect for artificial scorpion farming is extremely broad.

The state attaches great importance to rural development and has successively issued a series of policies to enrich the people, such as “serving agriculture, rural areas and farmers” and “building a new socialist countryside”, with increasing rural income at the core. Vigorously developing scorpion farming can not only earn foreign exchange income for the country, but also meet the material living needs of the people; therefore, it is the first-choice project in the adjustment of the industrial structure in grassroots rural areas, and a practical path to increase farmers' income and help farmers escape poverty and become prosperous; at the same time, it opens up a rare way to prosperity for laid-off workers and people seeking reemployment.

Market Conditions

Today, commodity scorpions sell smoothly and prices are stable. The main reason is that scorpions grow in temperate and tropical zones, and the temperature difference between northern and southern China is huge. The geographical environment has greatly harmed the unlimited reproduction of scorpions. Few provinces produce scorpions, and domestic scorpion resources can only account for about 20% of total demand, which is simply unable to meet market demand.

Now, although the scorpion farming boom has reached its climax, it is not the case that everyone who farms them can succeed and obtain high profits. According to estimates, the success rate of scorpion farming is no more than 30% at most, and most scorpion farmers end in failure for various reasons. Successful scorpion farmers keep their farming technology closed or secret, while failed scorpion farmers, once bitten by a snake and afraid of rope for ten years, no longer dare to engage in scorpion farming. Therefore, with only a few people succeeding and most people failing in scorpion farming under current conditions, it is determined that market demand cannot be met within the next few years.

With the development of medicine, the effects of scorpion venom have become widely recognized. Scorpion venom is more expensive than gold, about 150,000 yuan per kilogram. 10,000 adult scorpions can extract 480 grams of venom each year, so the utilization value of scorpion venom is far higher than that of the scorpions themselves, and demand exceeds supply.

Therefore, the profits from scorpion farming are substantial, and the market for scorpion farming has great room for development. Farming scorpions can certainly set farmers on the road to prosperity.