Hundreds of millions in income from snail farming

BBK - After many failures in agricultural projects, grasping market demand, Mr. Ha Van Tam in Bac Lanh Chang village, Luc Binh commune, Bach Thong district chose to raise apple snails as a business direction and has achieved success.

Realizing that the source of snails is increasingly scarce, while the market has a large demand, Mr. Ha Van Tam has proactively learned techniques to develop this model.

Initially, due to lack of experience, poor water treatment led to snails dying and developing poorly. However, Mr. Tam still persevered to learn more techniques... Finally, success came. After many years of "making friends" with apple snails, his family's snail farming area has now reached ^3,000m2 with 2 models in 2 different places, producing over 5 tons of snails/year.

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Snail farming is a new direction, bringing high economic efficiency.

To ensure that snails grow well and do not encounter diseases such as shell erosion, swollen spout, intestinal diseases, etc., Mr. Tam said: "The amount of water for raising snails must be sufficient. Every month, the water in the pond must be changed, the duckweed must be cleaned, and biological products must be used to treat the bottom of the pond. Pay attention to the food source and do not leave leftovers to pollute the snail's living environment.

Raising baby snails for commercial purposes requires more careful care. Baby snails and parent snails eat soft-bodied plants, squash, squash, taro leaves, cassava leaves, etc., chopped into small pieces. Feed them once a day in the evening. Thanks to that, the snails can grow well and make a profit.”

Mr. Ha Van Tam shares about the economic efficiency of apple snail farming.

Apart from investing in ponds and buying the initial breed, snail farming does not cost much because the main food source is duckweed, so farmers can provide it themselves. This model also does not require much labor, each day only need to feed the snails once when the food is gone. Compared to other livestock, snails are easy to care for and give many times higher income.

Initially, Mr. Tam imported snail eggs at a price of 800,000 - 1,000,000 VND/kg, incubated the eggs into baby snails and then brought them to the fields to raise into commercial snails. The raising time is from 4 to 5 months to harvest. Every 10,000 snails will yield 200,000 - 300 kg of finished snails. The selling price of Thai snails is 100,000 VND/kg with sizes from 3 to 10 snails/kg, and the price of apple snails is 90,000 VND/kg with sizes of 30-40 snails/kg.

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Commercial snails in the pond are growing well.

Due to the weather, snails can only be raised from March to September for harvest. With high prices and high profits, Mr. Tam has built a cooperative model with people in districts such as Cho Don, Ngan Son, Ba Be... Currently, this model has nearly 700 cooperative members buying young snails for raising. Mr. Tam accepts to consume all products and enthusiastically supports people with techniques to achieve the highest efficiency.

Mr. Nguyen Van Hau, Chairman of Luc Binh Commune People's Committee, highly appreciated the effectiveness of Ha Van Tam's snail farming linkage model.

Raising snails for sale and providing snail seeds is an effective economic development direction for the low-lying rice fields, easy to raise, suitable for the land of many localities. The economic model of Mr. Ha Van Tam is very suitable for people to refer to and apply./.

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