A young man from a rural village returns home to farm bamboo rats, and stumbles onto the road to prosperity

After graduating from university, Xiao Mo worked as a courier, slogged on construction sites, and did many other jobs, but his wallet never got fatter, and his original dream gradually faded away, leaving him physically and mentally exhausted. During the May 1 holiday last year, Xiao Mo went back to his rural hometown for a visit and discovered a money-making opportunity there. It turned out that Xiao Mo's home was in a rural village in the south, where people had always farmedbamboo ratsas a tradition, but it had never been done on a large scale. Bamboo rat meat is delicious, has strong medicinal value, and its fur can also be used, so it can truly be called a treasure from head to tail, and in recent years it has become favored by the market.

A pair of bamboo rats can give birth to 3 to 4 litters a year, with at least 2 to 5 pups per litter. If there are 100 breeding pairs that can reproduce, then around 200 to 300 can be sold in a year, bringing in an income of roughly 60,000 to 80,000 yuan. Xiao Mo immediately recognized the prospects of bamboo rat farming and put his savings from several years after graduation into the wave of bamboo rat farming. From selecting breeding rats to building the breeding sheds, Xiao Mo did everything himself, eager for his bamboo rat farm to grow big and strong right away.

Just as Xiao Mo was farming with great enthusiasm, something happened that left him utterly discouraged. It turned out that bamboo rat farming does not succeed just like that; it requires constant learning. In the first half year of farming bamboo rats, because he did not understand the farming techniques, he failed to deal with the animals promptly when they got sick, and more than half of his bamboo rats died or were injured. His savings from several years were about to go down the drain, and Xiao Mo had no solution. What was he to do?

Fortunately, hard work pays off. After asking around in many places, Xiao Mo found an expert in bamboo rat farming, and with the expert's hands-on help, his bamboo rat farming gradually got on track. Next, Xiao Mo will also expand the scale of production and farming, aiming to produce more than 5,000 to 10,000 bamboo rats a year, and he also plans to set up a bamboo rat farming cooperative, using the good opportunity of "Internet Plus" to lead the people around him to prosperity and a better life together.

Delicious bamboo rat dishes