Bamboo rat and leech farming earning 2 million yuan a year: a path to wealth or a scam?

I'm from a rural area myself, and there are quite a few people in my village who do farming.

Seventh Uncle is the big farming household in our village. He specializes in raising fish and has contracted over 100 mu of fish ponds. He works from dawn to dusk every day, cutting grass during the day to throw into the ponds to feed the fish, and also casting nets to catch fish. He drives them to vegetable markets and restaurants. At the end of the year, he drains the ponds and catches all the fish, so he can sell them for a good price during the Chinese New Year.Bamboo ratLeeches earning 2 million yuan a year?" inline="0">

Seventh Uncle is a decent guy. He often gives fish to the neighbors to eat, and he's warm-hearted. It's just that fish farmers get tanned pitch black, and if you didn't know him, you'd think he was African. At the end of the year, I asked him how much he'd earned from fish farming this year. He said this year's harvest was pretty good, he made seventy or eighty thousand yuan. For a rural person, that's already really good. In previous years, when there were disasters or whatever, all the fish in Seventh Uncle's ponds died, and he could only secretly wipe his tears. A whole year of hard work, and he didn't earn a single cent. Bamboo ratLeeches earning 2 million yuan a year?" inline="0">

There's also a leech farmer in the village. I heard he originally worked away from home, then paid 6,000 yuan to a farming school to learn leech farming techniques. After coming back, he built five or six ponds with cement, planning to test the waters first. And they guaranteed him that once the leeches were farmed, they'd come to his door to collect them, so there was no need to worry about sales at all.

The first year, he invested 60,000 yuan in a few ponds, putting in all the money he'd earned from years of working away. In the first year, when the leeches were ready, they came to his door to collect them, and the price was pretty good. He sold them for nearly 100,000 yuan, and after deducting costs, he did make some money. The second year, he decided to expand the scale. Because that farming school kept instilling in him the idea that expanding the scale would bring big money. And they charged him 20,000 yuan, saying experts would come, calling it an expert guidance fee.

The second year, he borrowed 200,000 yuan from relatives, built over 20 ponds, and bought seedlings. From time to time, experts came to guide the work. When the leeches matured, he called them to come collect, but they kept backing off, making excuses about this and that, wasting a lot of time. Later, when he went to that company himself to check, they had already run away, and the company had gone bankrupt. He had no choice but to look for other sales channels, only sold part of them, and the rest of the leeches died in the ponds. Buried in debt, he went out to work again.

These days there are plenty of programs promoting how much money you can make from farming. Just contract a fish pond, raise some crayfish, raise some soft-shelled turtles, and you'll earn tens of millions a year. Of course, there are people who make money, no doubt about it. But this point shouldn't be blown out of proportion. It makes it seem like anyone who goes into farming can make big money.

I don't know, have you sold those bamboo rats, peacocks, pigs, chickens, ducks, and geese you're raising? If you ask me what's suitable to raise? I can only say my grandma raised a dog, does that count as farming?

I hope everyone will actively share this article. We can't let more farmer uncles fall for scams!