There is a high probability that it comes from this place. Here are some hidden specialties of the Yangtze River Delta｜The French snails you eat in high-end restaurants
French escargot is a famous Western-style meal. Not only the French eat it, but the Chinese also love it.
In fact, Chinese people have been eating snails for a long time. The history of eating snails began in the Ming Dynasty. What’s even more unexpected is that today, 70% of the country’s edible snail production comes from Jiaxing, Zhejiang.
In Daqiao Town, Nanhu District, Jiaxing City, the farmland is surrounded by window screens, and water spinach and bitter wheat are planted inside. When the leaves are peeled off, snails are hiding under the leaves. "This is a Chinese white jade snail. It looks white. They are bigger than French snails," said Shen Fuliang, chairman of Jiaxing Qianfu Food Co., Ltd. and the local "snail king."
If you want to get rich by raising snails, the key is to understand the market. Eating snails has been popular abroad for many years. Today, Shen Fuliang believes that the market fluctuations in snail prices are relatively stable, the risks are not that big, the product is positioned at the high end, and the market prospects are very optimistic.
Up to now, more than 500 farmers across the country are cultivating snails with Qianfu Food, with a total of 4,000 acres of snail breeding area, increasing the average income of each farmer by 100,000 to 300,000 yuan. "There are people from Anhui, Jiangxi, and this year there are people from Hainan coming to learn." Shen Fuliang said, "As long as the crops are raised well, we will recycle them at a protective price, doubling the profit for farmers."
In order to open up the domestic market, he developed snail products suitable for Chinese tastes, such as spicy snails, snail fried rice, snail ingredients packages, canned snails, etc., allowing small snails to climb onto the tables of more than 3,000 restaurants across the country.
It is understood that Qianfu Food’s revenue this year is expected to exceed 70 million yuan, an increase of 10% to 15% over the previous year, making it the largest and only company in the country engaged in snail acquisition, breeding, deep processing, sales, technical training, and tourism. A leading agricultural enterprise in the entire industry chain.
In the future, Qianfu has invested nearly 100 million yuan in the snail industry chain primary, secondary and tertiary industry linkage project. It will continue to develop rapidly, deepen the division of labor, improve efficiency, expand the market, better connect the market and resources, and allow the little snails in Jiaxing to climb farther.
