Taiwan loach farming helps farmers in Dehua, Fujian get rich

Recently, the Taiwan loach farmed by Hu Feng, a farmer in Xiangyun Village, Guobao Township, Dehua County, achieved good economic returns.

According to Hu Feng, he began introducing and farming Taiwan loach in 2015, and now the farming scale has expanded to more than 30 mu, with farming profits also increasing year by year.

Hu Feng told this writer that Taiwan loach has the advantages of fast growth, strong disease resistance and high farming density, and its biggest feature is that a single loach can weigh more than 100 grams, with a growth rate 5 times that of wild loach, and it can be marketed after three to four months of farming. At present, the market purchase price of Taiwan loach is 24 yuan per kg, the yield per mu can reach more than 800 kg, and the output value is nearly 20,000 yuan. The Taiwan loach farmed by Hu Feng is mainly sold to restaurants and hotels in Quanzhou, Xiamen and other places.