Three typical stories of individual breeding entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship is a successful process, and success is also a lifelong process. Look at the stories of those who returned to their hometowns to breed, learn their methods, and find yourself path to success. Here I will share with you some typical stories about personal breeding and entrepreneurship, I hope it can help everyone!
Typical stories of personal breeding and entrepreneurship 1
Balcony vegetable and fish grower, box Rebirth after 20 failures on the farm
The fish and vegetable farmer who shines in front of his eyes
38-year-old Yang Hui has the characteristics of a Guangzhou man? He speaks slowly and likes to enjoy life. . For more than 10 years after graduating from college, he has been working as a programmer in an IT company. Due to professional reasons, he suffers from "computer syndrome". The most effective way is to see more green plants. I bought a few potted plants and small fish tanks, but if I neglected to take care of them, the vegetables often withered and the fish died.
At the end of 2009, while visiting the United States and Australia, Yang Hui was attracted by the aquaponics system, which raises fish without changing water and grows vegetables without fertilizing. The principle is to establish a circular chain of fish, vegetables and microorganisms in a closed soilless environment. Compared with traditional planting, its biggest feature is that it can save water consumption for starting a breeding business in the hometown. There is no need to fertilize and spray pesticides when growing vegetables, and there is no need to change water when raising fish. The only cost is fish food. According to the British Aquaculture Association, 1 pound of fish food can produce at least 50 kilograms of vegetables and 1.5 kilograms of fish.
After returning to China, Yang Hui and his friends established the Urban Farming Club. But Chinese urban households only have balconies of a few square meters, and offices and stages are even smaller. What to do? Yang Hui imagined condensing it all into a "box".
After 20 failures
Before making "Box Farm", Yang Hui consulted a large amount of information, among which the tutorials published by Murray Hallam were regarded as treasures by him. This is a world-class "awesome person" who is well-known in the circle and is called an "agricultural missionary".
Drawing pictures and looking for raw materials, his home was quickly filled with tools and accessories, including electric drills, PVC water pipes, hole punches, etc., which cost him more than 20,000 yuan. In March 2010, Yang Hui made the first aquaponics production system. But a month later, the fish died and the vegetables withered.
In order to find plants and fish suitable for China’s climate and environment, Yang Hui and his partners tried for a year. Common vegetables, Chinese cabbage, pocket coconuts, spider plants, goldfish, and tilapia were put into the box farm. test. He also went to South China Agricultural University for advice. But problems continued to arise. It was not until June 2011 that Yang Hui’s 21st work was released: beneath the four planting tanks was a fish pond with tilapias raised in it. The pond water, along with the fish’s excrement, was pumped to the plants next to it. The tank instantly becomes a nutrient for the plants, and the water purified by the plant roots is put back into the fish pond. The entire aquaculture equipment looks simple in design and consists of ordinary PVC water pipes, water pumps and plastic tanks. It covers an area of ??4 square meters, but can satisfy the food needs of a family of three!
After the success, Yang Hui could not help but hug and cheer with the only three remaining R&D partners. They finally won, created a Chinese "box farm" and applied for a patent.
Can I save thousands of yuan in food money a year?
What I am most proud of is not how many Fortune 500 companies I have programmed management software for, but how much I can do in a 4-square-meter space 1,200 plants were planted! In July 2011, Yang Hui resigned and started his own business with his "Box Farm".
He signed a contract with an electronic machinery company in Shenzhen and entrusted the other party to produce it. Later, he uploaded some photos of vegetable growth that he usually took to the Internet www.cyoNe.com.cn/, and wrote a promotional slogan: Raise fish and vegetables at home or in the office, and invite relatives and friends to taste the delicious food produced by your own farm. Fruits, vegetables and delicious fish? With this equipment, the farm does not need to be taken care of at all. As long as the system is running normally, there will be no problem even if the business trip lasts for three months. ?Many people are very interested after seeing these attractive pictures and texts. In just a few days, 100 prototypes were sold out.
But feedback came ensuing. Some people thought that the price of 500 to 2,000 yuan was too high; some said that the appearance was not beautiful enough; many people questioned: How many vegetables can be grown in a place as big as a palm?
Subsequently, Yang Hui streamlined the design, making the product no longer bloated and messy, and put a beautiful plastic coat on the box farm. Later, as production volume increased, he lowered the processing price a lot. As for customers' questions, Yang Hui and his colleagues formulated a very scientific replacement plan for consumers in the "Product User Manual".
In the spring, plant onions, cabbage, radish, and spinach with short growth cycles to raise tilapia; in the summer, plant mini tomatoes and zucchini to raise bass; in the fall, plant red rapeseed, peppers, and cucumbers, etc. Some new and exotic varieties with high yields have also been introduced from abroad. For example, fist-sized South African bergamot pumpkins, Japanese early-ripening peaches, brightly colored French amaranth and American coriander, etc. These vegetables not only look very beautiful, but some fruits are also very strange in shape. In one season, a "box farm" can produce up to more than 80 kilograms of fruits, saving thousands of yuan in vegetable money a year.
Using IT thinking to grow bigger? Innovative agriculture?
In terms of business, Yang Hui, an IT man, has his own "Internet thinking": selling "hardware, fish and vegetables" at cheap prices Produce equipment, and then sell consumables for a long time according to the changes of the seasons, providing customers with vegetable seeds and fish fry that do not require soil cultivation. Moreover, their service has a mobile APP (application software). After purchasing the equipment, users will settle on the mobile APP and use it to order vegetables and fish fry. There is also a social system on the APP. Everyone can share what vegetables they grow and what fish they raise. People in the same community can also exchange vegetables they grow with each other and share their planting experience.
From 2012 to 2013, Yang Hui sold nearly 30,000 sets of "box farm" equipment in one year, with online and offline customers all over major cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, and even small counties in the north. . Calculated based on the discounted selling price of 500 yuan per piece, the sales amounted to 15 million yuan, and Yang Hui’s total profit was no less than 5 million! Typical stories of individual breeding and entrepreneurship 2
The prospect of blue crab breeding in clay pots is good She quit her job to raise blue crabs with an annual income of more than 5 million
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With shoulder-length hair, a well-fitting dress, and a beautiful face, Zeng Shanngling in front of her is like a big shot. Beauty. Looking at such a beautiful woman, it is difficult to connect her with a blue crab that is bigger than the palm of your hand. In fact, Zeng Shanngling is the first person in Fangchenggang City to use the gaps in the mangroves to place earthenware tanks to breed blue crabs. A woman has become a benchmark for local breeding. There must be a story behind this and a different entrepreneurial experience.
Unintentionally
I heard about blue crab farming at a party
Zeng Shanngling’s hometown is located in a small mountain village on the edge of Maowei Sea in Beibu Bay, Fangcheng, Guangxi. In her early years, she was an employee of a state-owned enterprise in Fangchenggang. The economic performance of the company was not good. In the summer of 1997, Zeng Shanngling resigned and went to work. ?Just not willing to give in. ?Zeng Shanngling said. In the first few years after resigning, Zeng Shanngling tried to start some small businesses, but the profits were small and the profits were lost every now and then. She still couldn't make ends meet.
In the first few years after resigning, Zeng Shanngling only ran some small businesses, earning and losing money from time to time, and living beyond her means. People on the seaside often say that if you rely on the sea to eat, your small business cannot prosper, so Zeng Shanngling started farming with others. Zeng Shanngling has raised anchovies, crocodiles, turtles, and turtles, just about anything you can think of. But workshop-style breeding is small-scale, high-cost, and low-profit. Zeng Shanngling's business has always been unsustainable.
Why can’t we raise so many but not well? Zeng Shanngling is puzzled. Just when she was worried, she found that there were more and more voices advocating eating ecological and green food. She suddenly realized that maybe marine aquaculture relies too much on feed and drugs. ?After that, Zeng Shanngling spotted a way? Ecological breeding.
As the saying goes, opportunity always favors those who are prepared. In the autumn of 2003, at a gathering with friends, Zeng Shanngling overheard that there were original ecological green crab breeding farms along the coasts of Zhejiang and Fujian. Friends just talked about it casually, but Zeng Shangling took it to heart.
Not long after, Zeng Shanngling made a special trip to Zhejiang and Fujian with friends. They saw a farm using gaps in the mangroves to raise blue crabs in cement tanks.
Zeng Shanngling realized that this method was very suitable for Fangchenggang City, which is located on the coast and has a wide area of ??mangrove forests, and that the development of mud crab breeding was very promising. Mangroves provide rich feed and habitat for a variety of fish and epiphytes in coastal waters. Breeding blue crabs in mangroves can make full use of low-value marine ecology such as small fish, shrimps, crabs, and shells in the mangrove ecosystem. Resources are used as bait to speed up the growth of blue crabs; at the same time, the breeding environment is also very clean. It is a purely natural breeding method that can meet people's demand for high-quality and safe food; finally, the survival rate is high, one crab per tank This method of breeding avoids blue crabs from killing each other and is conducive to the prevention and control of diseases. Isn't this the ecological mariculture method she has been seeking for many years? Zeng Shanngling was ecstatic about this, as if she had found a treasure.
Deliberately
Find out how to raise blue crabs
This time, Zeng Shanngling did not start in a hurry, but did her homework.
After returning from the visit, Zeng Shanngling first conducted a detailed inspection of all the mangrove tidal flats along the Beibu Gulf coastline for three months. In addition, Zeng Shanngling invited several experts to repeatedly demonstrate the method of cultivating blue crabs in cement tanks using gaps in mangroves. Casting cylinders with cement was overturned because of the high cost. What about using plastic barrels for farming? It is also denied by experts because it will pollute the environment and run counter to the original intention of starting a business. During that time, Zeng Shanngling was exhausted both mentally and physically.
The careful Zeng Shanngling also asked relevant experts to conduct repeated demonstrations on the method of cultivating mud crabs in cement tanks using gaps in mangroves. It was found that this method has two disadvantages: First, using cement tanks requires a large amount of water. The input of cement, sand and other materials and labor increases the cost; secondly, the cement cylinder is easily damaged by seawater erosion, and after damage, it blocks the sea area, and it will cost a considerable amount of money to clean up in the future. So she switched to using plastic barrels for farming, but the plastic barrels hardened, smelled, and polluted the environment after being soaked in seawater, which ran counter to her original intention of developing green ecological farming.
Is it possible to breed in earthenware jars? With the idea of ????trying again, Zeng Shanngling consulted experts again. After getting the expert’s affirmation and approval, Zeng Shanngling immediately started to design the earthenware jars and sent them to the ceramics Factory custom-made.
There are 3,000 earthenware jars, and one crab seedling is placed in each earthenware jar. In the first three months, Zeng Shanngling stayed with blue crabs almost every day, and consulted experts whenever she encountered problems. ?Feeding can only be done when the tide is high. If you feed blue crabs in advance and do not eat them, bacteria will easily breed if the food is left in the tank. ?Now Zeng Shangling talks about raising crab heads, but these experiences are all learned and summarized time and time again.
When 80% of the first batch of blue crabs survived and were put on the market, Zeng Shanngling knew that she had finally succeeded.
Experiences
Seize the opportunity and stick to it
According to the plan, 600 tile jars will be placed per acre of mangroves, and the more than 30,000 tile jars will only account for the red mangroves. The forest area is more than 50 acres, and 250 acres of mangroves are still idle. In order to expand the scale, Zeng Shanngling came up with a bold idea in the summer of 2009 to establish a cooperative, with members focusing on local villagers, especially women. After nearly a year of going door-to-door and repeatedly publicizing the development prospects of blue crab farming in mangrove vats to the villagers, the villagers' concerns were finally dispelled. At the beginning of 2010, 29 villagers from Tanxi Village in Jiangshan Township (including 14 women) joined the cooperative, which was officially named "Runfeng Green Ecological Marine Aquaculture Professional Cooperative in Jiangshan Township, Fangcheng District". By June 2010, the cooperative had 36 members and raised 6.288 million yuan in funds. At present, the cooperative's mud crab breeding has grown to more than 50,000 jars, and the breeding area has expanded to 90 acres.
Today, Zeng Shanngling has become a local crab farmer in Fangchenggang City, with a total annual income of more than 5 million yuan; she has also led a large number of local crab farmers through the business model of "cooperative + base + farmers" Farmers are engaged in blue crab farming, with an average annual income of 70,000 to 80,000 yuan.
Recalling her entrepreneurial story, Zeng Shanngling is quite emotional. ?Actually, there are a lot of business opportunities around me. Some information was casually talked about by others. Once it was passed, it was passed. I didn’t let it go. ?Zeng Shanngling said that if women want to start a business, they must not only be thoughtful people in life, but also be thoughtful people in the business world.
?It is easy to discover opportunities, but difficult to seize and persist in them. Identify your goals and overcome difficulties. Success is actually not that difficult? Typical Stories of Personal Breeding and Entrepreneurship 3
A disabled person became rich by breeding rex rabbits and earned an annual income of 400,000
Although Wang Xuecheng is a disabled person, he started his own rex rabbit breeding business with superhuman perseverance , and at the same time, it also led many surrounding folks to become rich together. Wang Xuecheng never thought that Rex Rabbit would allow him to achieve a new life from poverty to a millionaire. His life is like a fairy tale. From his successful history, we can see the great value of hard work.
Wang Xuecheng, who is in his early forties, has a junior high school education, has a disabled right hand, and is a native of Huangfu Village, Zhangguang Town, Nanqiao District, Chuzhou City, Anhui Province. He is known as the "Rex Rabbit King". He became rich by breeding rex rabbits. He now has a factory of more than 7,000 square meters, more than 5,000 rex rabbits in stock, and an annual income of more than 400,000 yuan. In 2011, Wang Xuecheng was awarded the title of "Top Ten Entrepreneurship Stars of Disabled Persons in Anhui Province" and "Self-improvement Model of Disabled Persons in Anhui Province" commended by the Anhui Provincial Disabled Persons' Federation.
?It is difficult to start a business, and it is even harder for people with disabilities to start a business! Looking back on my entrepreneurial journey, personal struggle and government support are two important factors for my success. ?Recently, Wang Xuecheng said with emotion in an interview, ?For farmers tending crops, it is self-evidently difficult to work without the fingers of their right hand, and my wife is also a disabled person. There is an old mother at the top and two young children at the bottom. They make a living by cultivating a few acres of thin land, and their life is very difficult. ?
Wang Xuecheng also wanted to go out to work, but was often rejected because of his hand disability. However, he is not willing to remain poor because he has to support his family. Since then, he has been paying attention to the livelihood opportunities that suit him. In 2007, a chance brought a turnaround for the ill-fated Wang Xuecheng.
The whole story goes like this: Wang Xuecheng saw the information about rex rabbit breeding in the newspaper, and he thought it was more suitable for him because it requires less investment, has quick results, is easy to raise, and is marketable. More importantly, the local feed resources are rich, such as peanut seedlings, peanut shells, corn stalks, etc., which are all favorite feeds of rex rabbits. He knows in his heart that although the breeding industry is relatively risky, if you want to succeed in breeding, you must master excellent breeding techniques. In order to master the technology of breeding rex rabbits, he went to Nanjing Agricultural University, Anhui Agricultural University and other universities to learn from their teachers, and also visited fur markets in other places. With strong comprehension ability and diligent learning spirit, Wang Xuecheng quickly mastered this technology.
Despite this, Wang Xuecheng’s journey to breeding rex rabbits has not been smooth sailing. In 2007, Wang Xuecheng borrowed more than 60,000 yuan from east and west to introduce 400 rabbit breeds from Hebei Province. However, it didn't take long for the rex rabbits to become sick, and only more than 100 of them died, resulting in heavy losses. Almost all the money he invested was wasted, and he was too anxious to eat or sleep. There is no perfect way to go. After the Disabled Persons' Federation of Chuzhou City and Nanqiao District learned about Wang Xuecheng's experience, they quickly launched the "Thousand Yuan Project" to support him in continuing breeding, which enabled him to succeed in breeding and achieve profitability that year. After several years of hard work, Wang Xuecheng's rex rabbit breeding has begun to take shape, with an existing factory building of more than 7,000 square meters, more than 5,000 rex rabbits in stock, annual sales of more than 20,000 rex rabbits, and an annual income of more than 400,000 yuan, making it the leading rex rabbit breeding enterprise in eastern Anhui. expert.
After Wang Xuecheng became rich, because he was well aware of the suffering of disabled people, he tried every means to encourage other disabled people to find employment. In 2009, under the leadership of Wang Xuecheng, more than 20 households in this village and several neighboring villages began to engage in rex rabbit breeding. He took the initiative to provide them with breeding rabbits, free technical support and the feeding formula he developed himself. Most of the farmers that year There is profit. Villager Liu Enzhu is one of those who received help. Under Wang Xuecheng's step-by-step guidance, Liu Enzhu's family's income from breeding rex rabbits exceeded 10,000 yuan that year, and exceeded 20,000 yuan in 2010. 20,000 yuan is not a big amount, but for Liu Enzhu, it is an astronomical amount. ?He came to my house dozens of times and never drank a sip of water. ?When Wang Xuecheng was mentioned, tears overflowed from the corners of the eyes of Liu Enzhu and his wife.
In order to encourage more families to breed rex rabbits, at the end of 2009, with the support of the Nanqiao District Disabled Persons' Federation and the Zhangguang Town Government, Wang Xuecheng held a training class on rex rabbit breeding at the town government. Wang Xuecheng promised in the training class that if farmers encounter problems during the breeding process, they will contact them by phone and be on call at any time, and they will come to buy commercial rabbits for free.
This is what Wang Xuecheng said, and this is what he did: On December 21, 2010, Wang Xuecheng received a call for help from a farmer. Without saying anything, he rode a motorcycle there. Due to the slippery snowy road, Wang Xuecheng fell into a ditch on the roadside with his car and his car on the way back, and fell into a coma. Fortunately, a fellow villager passing by found him and quickly sent him to the town health center. His head was injured It took six stitches. ?As long as I can make my neighbors live a good life, I am willing to suffer a little hardship, suffer a little loss, and suffer a little fatigue. ?Wang Xuecheng said with a smile.
At the same time, in order to form large-scale breeding and expand the rex rabbit sales market, in March 2009, Wang Xuecheng registered and established the Chuzhou Jinsheng Rex Rabbit Breeding Professional Cooperative, and in December of the same year registered Huangfu Hui brand trademark, the cooperative implements "five unifications" for its members, namely unified seed supply, unified prevention and control, unified feeding formula, unified feeding management model, and unified sales. At present, the cooperative members include 62 households in Dingyuan, Fengyang, Mingguang, Lai'an, Nanqiao and other counties, cities and districts, including 32 households with disabled people. Wang Xuecheng has won praise from farmers and customers for its scientific management, excellent varieties, reasonable prices and good reputation. Currently, the cooperative sells 100,000 rex rabbits annually, with sales of more than 7 million yuan and profit of 3 million yuan.
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