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The Brazilian green turtle is a new variety for specialty aquaculture

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A new specialty aquatic product - the farming of the Brazilian green turtle - has become popular among farmers in Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province. According to technicians from the city's Aquatic Technology Extension Station, rural areas across the city have already farmed 2 million Brazilian green turtles this year, a very rapid pace of growth. The Brazilian green turtle, native to the banks of the Mississippi River in the United States, is also known as the seven-colored turtle, red-eared turtle, and ornate slider. It has a beautiful appearance, brilliant colors, and agile movements, making it very endearing. Raised in water, it glistens under the light, and when swimming submerged, on its head and carapace

A new specialty aquatic product - the farming of the Brazilian green turtle - has become popular among farmers in Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province. According to technicians from the city's Aquatic Technology Extension Station, rural areas across the city have already farmed 2 million Brazilian green turtles this year, a very rapid pace of growth.

The Brazilian green turtle, native to the banks of the Mississippi River in the United States, is also known as the seven-colored turtle, red-eared turtle, and ornate slider. It has a beautiful appearance, brilliant colors, and agile movements, making it very endearing. Raised in water, it glistens under the light, and when swimming submerged, seven colors - red, yellow, white, brown, green, gray, and purple - appear on its head and carapace, which is why people call it the "seven-colored turtle." It has high ornamental value, can be eaten, and also has a certain medicinal value.

The farming of the Brazilian green turtle in Huzhou City was first introduced by Nong Quannan of Donglin Town, Linghu District, a "National Advanced Individual in Agricultural Technology Extension." Making full use of the local farmers' equipment and techniques for raising soft-shelled turtles, he introduced 250,000 breeding turtles from other places in 1998 for trial farming and succeeded. This year, farmers in Donglin Town alone have farmed 500,000 Brazilian green turtles.

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