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June and July are the seasons when cicadas are widely listed. Golden cicadas are loved by citizens for their high protein content, low fat content, and delicious taste. In the past month, a reporter from Yangzi Evening News Ziniu News has visited Lulou Town, Peixian County, Xuzhou multiple times and found that there is a local cicada breeding cooperative that can sell nearly 20 million cicada eggs and branches in a year. Some farmers earn millions of yuan annually by selling cicada seedlings.

On the afternoon of June 18, Wang Man, head of the Peixian Sign Language Golden Cicada Breeding Professional Cooperative, told the Yangzi Evening News Ziniu News reporter that in addition to selling in Xuzhou, golden cicadas will also be sold to Shandong, Henan, Anhui and other places. In recent years, they have been sold to Nanjing. The number of golden cicadas has gradually increased. Reporters found that many night markets in Nanjing have golden cicadas for sale, and some barbecue stalls can sell hundreds of strings a night.

Yangzi Evening News/Ziniu News reporter Yan Chunxu

Small golden cicada big industry

The cooperative can sell nearly 20 million egg branches a year.

Golden cicada is also known as "whine turtle", "know monkey" and "solve monkey". on the morning of June 10, a reporter from ziniu news of Yangzi evening news came to peixian sign language golden cicada breeding professional cooperative. The 35-year-old Wang Man once worked in sales in other places and returned to his hometown in 2011. "We now raise more than 200 acres of golden cicadas, and also carry out technology promotion and egg branch sales. We have bases in Henan, Shandong and other places."

Entering the cooperative's golden cicada science and technology intelligent incubation room, you can see that the iron frame is neatly piled up with golden cicada egg branches, and a layer of black cloth hangs under the iron frame. An older worker beat the black cloth with a small bamboo pole, gathered the cicada ants falling from the egg branches together, and shook them into a white plastic basket. Later, the collected cicada ants were handed over to a young worker. The young worker first sifted out the wood dander, spiders and other impurities in the cicada ants with a sieve, then weighed them on an electronic scale, and then evenly distributed them into lunch boxes.

According to Wang Man, golden cicadas can be cultivated under willow, poplar, elm and apple trees, which can increase land income and can be harvested in two years at the earliest. "Our customers are all over Jiangsu, Shandong, Henan, Anhui and other places, and there are also a small number of customers in Hebei and Shaanxi. We can sell nearly 20 million egg branches every year, and we have started to sell live cicada ants in the last two years."

"70% of the land in Lulu Town belongs to sandy soil, which is very suitable for breeding golden cicadas. Under the condition of good management, each mu of land can be sold for 20,000 yuan, almost 4000 or 5000 yuan, and the average can be sold for 8000 or 9000 yuan." Wang Man said that from a national perspective, Lulu Town, Peixian County has the largest area of breeding golden cicadas and has the largest number of farmers.

In his seventies, he earned 7000 yuan in January.

At noon on June 10, Mr. Zhu, a 59-year-old villager from Da Zhu Ji Village, Lulou Town, bought 13000 golden cicada egg branches on an electric tricycle. This year is Mr. Zhu's sixth year of breeding golden cicadas. his family has 4 mu of land with more than 300 trees in the field. "The management method is very simple. Just sprinkle some water on the branches regularly and then sprinkle cicada seedlings every year." Mr. Zhu told the Ziniu News reporter, "I sold more than 40000 yuan in my first year and more than 50000 yuan last year. I hope it will exceed 60000 yuan this year."

At 2 pm, the reporter followed Wang Man to Zhang Zhuang Town, Pei County, 45 kilometers away, to send cicada ants. According to Wang Man, if the buyer does not have time to pick it up, she will deliver it as long as the distance is within 200 kilometers.

At 3: 12 p.m., the reporter followed Wang man to see two buyers. One is a middle-aged man who runs an agricultural material store, and the other is Grandpa Zhu, who is over 70 years old. Grandpa Zhu began to breed golden cicadas in 2020. He has more than 2 acres of land and 450 trees in his home. Last year, he invested 3000 yuan in the cost and sold more than 10,000 yuan. "It only takes one or two hours a day to catch golden cicadas for a month., Earned more than 7000 yuan." He happily told the Ziniu News reporter, "I will follow the breeding when I see the profits. The benefits are good. This year I bought another 2000 yuan of cicada ants."

There are over 30 farming cooperatives in this town

The reporter walked into the willow forest planted by Wang Man and found that about half of the trees were hung with "cicada catching artifact". Wang Man said that the 45-degree adhesive tape pasted on the willow tree can guide the golden cicada to climb along the adhesive tape to the golden cicada catcher. The two sides of the trap are serrated, and the golden cicada climbs to the top along the serrated, and finally falls in the plastic cup. The plastic cup is filled with water to prevent the golden cicada from metamorphosing. "I have more than 200 mu of land. If all the employees are more time-consuming, I can save half of the manpower by collecting them at 11 o'clock in the evening or in the morning."

The Ziniu News reporter learned that Lulu Town, Peixian County currently has more than 30 golden cicada breeding cooperatives, forming an industrial chain of seedling incubation, technical services, golden cicada purchase and sales, and the reputation of "golden cicada town" has gradually spread in Huaihai area.

On May 15 this year, the Chinese Traditional Medicine Association approved the release of the Technical Regulations for Wild Tending of Black Grasshopper and Harvest of Cicada Slough. The regulation was jointly drafted by Jiangsu Academy of traditional Chinese medicine and Peixian sign language golden cicada breeding professional cooperative, which means that the technology of raising golden cicadas under the forest in Lulu Town has been recognized by the China Association of traditional Chinese medicine.

Liang Zhen, member of the Party Committee and deputy mayor of Lulu Town, Pei County, said in an interview with local media that Lulu Town has established a cooperative research base for wild tending of black grasshoppers to carry out research on forest land selection, egg branch collection, egg branch preservation, egg branch incubation, breeding, forest management and cicada slough harvesting.

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Popular Nanjing night market barbecue stalls sell hundreds of strings of golden cicadas a night

Before the transformation of the black grasshopper, it was called golden cicada, which was a flavored food. The skin and shell it shed was called cicada slough, which was a commonly used medicinal material. Wang Man told Ziniu News reporter that there are many ways to eat golden cicadas, which are usually fried. The newly molted golden cicadas are especially delicious. Golden cicadas will also become dumpling stuffing, which is more common on barbecue stalls.

"In the past ten years, the price of golden cicadas has been rising year after year, from 0.4 yuan each at the beginning to 0.8 yuan each last year. It has just started to be sold this year, and the purchase price was 1.2 yuan each last night. When a large number of them are listed later, the price will be lower." Wang Man told Ziniu News that in addition to selling golden cicadas in Xuzhou, they will also be sold to Shandong, Henan, Anhui and other places. In recent years, the number of cicadas sold to Nanjing has gradually increased.

Ziniu reporter of Yangzi Evening News visited many night markets in Nanjing and found that there were golden cicadas on sale. At a barbecue stall in the night market near Nanjing University of Technology, the reporter saw a variety of delicacies such as golden cicadas, silkworm chrysalis, and grasshoppers. According to the boss, each string of golden cicadas sells 8 yuan, each string of grasshoppers sells 4 yuan, and each string of silkworm chrysalis sells 6 yuan. There are 3 golden cicadas in each string, and they can sell hundreds of strings every night. "There are many people who like to eat, and some people will take several strings at a time."

"You can actually buy golden cicadas at the night market in Nanjing!" Xiao Liu, a "post -00" girl from Xuzhou, was a senior in Nanjing and came to the night market to play with her roommates. she bought two strings of golden cicadas. "when she was a child, she often followed her father to catch golden cicadas. after school, she seldom went home. she especially missed the taste of her hometown."

The reporter visited the wholesale market in Nanjing and found that the golden cicada became a hot commodity. A shop worker in Nanjing Jiangning Guli Tianhuan Frozen Wholesale Market told Ziniu News