New Agricultural Scams Are Making the Rounds Again: Don't Fall for These 17

Before investing in any agricultural project, you must keep your eyes wide open, and be sure not to fall victim to these 17 projects. Please also share this so you can warn the friends around you!

1. Strawberries That Bear Fruit Every Month

No management needed - just plant them in the soil and wait to pick berries every month. This strawberry variety does exist, but it falls far short of what is claimed; it is purely a seed-selling scheme.

2. Medicinal Herb Cultivation

To swindle money, the scammers talk up some uncommon or very valuable medicinal herbs in the most glowing terms, offering contracts and guaranteed-price buybacks and so on. In reality, the seeds you receive either fail to sprout or have a shockingly low survival rate.

3. Aloe Vera Cultivation

Aloe vera does indeed have high nutritional and medicinal value, but the number of buyers that will actually buy it back is pitifully small. At present, the large-scale users of aloe vera mostly have their own cultivation bases. The scammers are simply out to sell their seedlings.

4. Chinese Black Guinea Pig

The project itself is fake; the name “Chinese Black Guinea Pig” was entirely fabricated by people with a scheme in mind - it is actually just a guinea pig. The scammers give these worthless animals a new name and then call them rare animals, misleading operators so they can rake in ill-gotten gains. They sell breeding stock and make their money from the seedlings.

5. New-Type Oil Press

The machinery and technology are reliable. But many of the machines marketed as “Model XX oil press” are counterfeit products; the oil they press is of poor quality and leaves behind a serious amount of residue. They often fly the banner of some agricultural extension station to dispel your suspicions - please choose carefully.

6. American Frogs

The project is real, and the market prospects are decent too. But in the Chinese market, it is very hard to find genuine American frog breeding stock. The so-called breeding stock is almost all bred locally.

7. Forest Frog Farming

The forest frog is a treasure of Northeast China, and forest frog oil can be extracted from it, but not every place can farm them. Be sure not to be fooled.

8. Spider Venom Extraction

Spider venom is indeed precious, but nobody wants venom extracted by ordinary people. Moreover, not all spider venom is useful. To put it plainly, it is still just about selling breeding stock or technology.

9. White Jade Snails

White Jade snails are indeed easy to raise and have extremely high nutritional value. The scammers claim low investment, short cycles and huge profits. But at present the market in China is still very small.

10. Doors Made from Straw

Investment advertisements boast that the main raw material is straw, but in fact the main raw materials are magnesium oxide and magnesium chloride, fiberglass cloth and activators, with straw making up only about 10%. Companies of this kind often fly the banner of XX University and the slogan of serving the country through science and technology, swindling and deceiving the many people who are eager to get rich.

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11. Ostrich Farming

The technology is real, but at present our country is mainly at the stage of speculating on breeding stock, and the time for commercial use has not yet ripened. Moreover, breeding stock is extremely expensive - at least over ten thousand yuan, and as much as several tens of thousands.

12. Cactus Cultivation

They claim to sign exclusive sales contracts with growers, often using the “company + farmer” contract farming model to attract large numbers of growers to participate. In fact, cactus cultivation has not yet reached the stage of commercial application.

13.Farming Freshwater Crayfish

It is a real and reliable farming technology. But at present many companies have set their sights on crayfish farming, boasting about how simple it is and how high-yielding the breeding stock they provide is. These are all unrealistic empty words - it is all about speculating on their crayfish fry.

14. Extracting Protein Powder from Corn

A reliable project with mature technology. Some materials claim they provide machinery and raw materials and buy back the processed products - in such cases please be cautious and beware of being scammed.

15. Farming Coypus (Nutria)

Agricultural companies sign exclusive sales contracts with farmers and breeders, using the promise of high returns to trick farmers into being defrauded.

16. Lingzhi (Reishi Mushroom) Cultivation

The technology is real. But the scammers inflate the buyback price thousands of times over, claiming that planting 2 sq m will bring in over a hundred thousand a year. They even draw up a buyback contract - it is all just a front.

17. Cordyceps

The technology is not yet mature; so far the only success has been with Cordyceps militaris (something similar to cordyceps). Even the most authoritative scientists are still at the experimental stage, let alone large-scale promotion. Yet the scammers claim it suits both north and south, that anyone can do it, and that no matter what the soil is like, it seems you will get rich as long as you plant it - sheer nonsense.

Special reminder:

Careful observers will notice that among these 17 projects, many are actually good directions for agricultural development - it is just that the technology is not yet very mature, and some lawbreakers seize the chance to commit fraud. What is more, projects such as strawberry cultivation, medicinal herb cultivation and specialty farming are not problematic in themselves, but some people exploit them, exaggerating the returns and ignoring the risks. Therefore, when choosing a project, farmers must investigate thoroughly from multiple angles and act with caution.

Source: Brand Agriculture and Market; Reposted from: Nongdi Quan

Editor: Bai Chen

Responsible Editor: Li Yunan

Supervisor: Zhang Lei