The key to successful crayfish farming lies in mastering genuine farming techniques.

Starting in 2012, the second wave of crayfish farming in China gradually rose, and more and more people joined in, especially in 2016 when manyfarmersbroke through a technical bottleneck and made a little money. All kinds of people fanned the flames, saying how much money crayfish farming had made. In 2017, the newly added area was about 40%, and most of the newcomers fell into the pit.

Crayfish technology has now made some breakthroughs, and the farming risk is not great, but at least 40% of farmers are losing money, 30% are working for nothing, and less than 20% can make a profit. Why do you think that is? In 2017, apart from the money made from selling crayfish seed stock (this year's seed price is rarely seen in ten years), how much did old farmers actually sell?

Why do most crayfish farmers

fail?

There are mainly these two points

First, crayfish seed stock

At present, most farmers buy their seed stock from the market, or buy it at a low price from shrimp traders. These poor-quality seed stocks die in large numbers after entering the water (generally after three days), and the farmers are completely unaware of it. Not long after buying the seed stock, in March this year in Qianjiang, crayfish seed stock once exceeded 30 yuan/jin. 90% of those who bought seed stock at a high price suffered losses, as already analyzed above. I will not explain it in detail here.

Second, crayfish farming techniques

Because everyone sees that there are many wild crayfish, they think crayfish are very easy to farm, but that is actually not the case. Crayfish are very wild by nature and cannibalize each other seriously. In addition, it also involves core key techniques such as feeding, water quality, aquatic plants, diseases, and site construction. High-density farming is very difficult.

Generally speaking, when crayfish reach more than 350 jin per mu, farming difficulty increases. When they reach more than 600 jin per mu, the technical requirements are very high. Farming crayfish is much easier than farming fish, but if you want to produce good crayfish, it is far harder than farming fish.

Crayfish farming techniques only began to mature in 2014. It is a relatively emerging farming species. Research institutes have no successful research, few folk farmers have succeeded, the time actually spent on large-scale farming in China is relatively short, few people have mastered the real secrets, and the real experts are among the common people. Very few people truly master the core techniques of crayfish farming.

There are also those who sell medicine wandering in the countryside. They seize on your desire to bring dead shrimp back to life and cheat you out of several hundred to over a thousand yuan in one go.

The biggest risk in crayfish farming lies in technique. If a key technique is not mastered, everything may be lost. Obtaining genuine farming techniques is the key to whether farming can succeed. You must pay attention to learning and introducing mature techniques, not groping around. It not only wastes time and misses good market opportunities, but also has a high possibility of failure. You may pick up a sesame seed only to lose a watermelon!

To be honest, crayfish farmers who succeed by groping around on their own have basically all gone through failure. That is why some people say that crayfish farming does not make money in the first year. This is the price of self-exploration.

Generally speaking, crayfish are easiest to farm in the first year, and it is also the year with the best harvest. Both quality and yield are very good. If you cannot seize the first year, your probability of failure is very high. If you cannot make money in the first two years of shrimp farming, then making money later is really a joke. After two years of working for nothing, how much confidence will you still have in the third year? Fans can interact more and talk about how you succeeded, and at the same time do not be afraid to talk about your failures.

Right now is the peak period for crayfish deaths. The biggest risk in farming is fear of death. If the shrimp die, do not waste money. Just disinfect and let it be. It cannot be cured. The shrimp are gone and the money is gone, so why bother? After a few years of farming, you will understand.