Gecko is a dried body of Gecko. You can catch it all year round, remove the internal organs, wipe it clean, spread it with bamboo pieces, flatten it and straighten it, and dry it at low temperature.
Gecko is mainly produced in Longzhou, Ningming, Pingxiang, Baise, Nanning, Tianlin and other counties and cities in Guangxi. Guangdong Huaiji, Luoding, Yingde, Yangchun, Xinyi and Zengcheng; Wenshan, Honghe and Xishuangbanna in Yunnan; Xingyi, Guizhou. Abroad, Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, India, Indonesia and other South and Southeast Asian countries also produce.
Before 1990s, the market supply of clams mainly came from wild fishing. Because the domestic gecko is fat, small in head, white in abdomen, thin in scale, complete in tail and less in red spots, it has obvious advantages compared with foreign gecko's head, thin in skin and more red spots on its back. Therefore, domestic clams are very popular in domestic and foreign markets, and the price is twice as high as that of foreign clams. Become a hot-selling product in domestic and foreign markets. After the 1980s, due to the population explosion, people's production, living and activity space expanded, and the living space of Meretrix meretrix became smaller and smaller. Coupled with the deterioration of the ecological environment, especially people's overfishing and indiscriminate killing, the wild resources of Meretrix meretrix were almost extinct. In order to protect the wild resources of Meretrix meretrix, the state listed it as a second-class protected animal in 1988. After that, the market supply became more tense. In order to protect wild gecko resources and meet market demand, it is urgent to develop gecko artificial breeding.
Second, the medicinal value and health care value of gecko
Gecko has the functions of tonifying lung and kidney, relieving asthma, impotence due to kidney deficiency, nocturnal emission, frequent urination and quenching thirst. Modern clinic has a good effect on acute and chronic bronchitis, chronic bronchitis, pulmonary tuberculosis, cardiac wheezing, cardiogenic edema, neurasthenia and so on. During the period of 1960, it was reported in Japan that the whole gecko has sex hormone function, and it has been proved in China one after another. Therefore, it is clinically used to treat sexual dysfunction such as impotence or uterine hypoplasia.
In recent years, nearly 20 domestic pharmaceutical companies have produced nearly 30 kinds of Chinese patent medicines containing Meretrix meretrix, and applied for 65 patents. Such as ginseng and gecko essence, Gecko Dabu pill, Gecko Bushen pill, Ginseng and Gecko powder, Gecko Dingchuan pill, Haima Bushen pill, Gecko wine, Shenlong pure oral liquid, Shenke Bufei capsule, etc.
The varieties used for health care products include Shen Gong Yuan Qi bag, antidiarrheal liquid, Longfeng Changchun wine, aphrodisiac pill, aphrodisiac Shenbao, Kangtai Jieshenlu, etc.
Third, the gecko market analysis
Since 1990s, due to the decrease of wild resources, the market price of gecko has increased year by year. Especially after 1988, the supply of clams is increasingly short, the market is tight, and it is almost out of stock. Recently, the market price has risen to 13- 16 yuan/right (big); 9- 1 1 yuan/pair (middle); 5—6 yuan/Right (small).
According to statistics, the demand for medicines, health products and formulas in the domestic market of gecko is between 400,000 and 500,000 pairs every year. After the 1990s, although a small number of artificial breeding were successful, the annual output was between 200,000 pairs. Among them, 70,000 pairs are produced in Guangxi, 40,000 pairs in Guangdong, 30,000 pairs in Yunnan, 40,000 pairs in Guizhou and 30,000 pairs in other regions. The insufficient part is imported from Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia and other countries by ports such as Beijing, Tianjin, Guangzhou and Yunnan. In order to meet the market supply and change the long-term import situation of Meretrix meretrix, it is the only way to develop artificial breeding of Meretrix meretrix.
Fourthly, the economic benefit analysis of gecko artificial breeding.
According to the statistics of mussel farmers' years of breeding practice, it usually takes more than half a year to raise 1000 mussels (the smallest scale) and sell them as commodities. Eliminate natural enemies (rats, snakes, etc.). ) and other losses, about 400 pairs of clams can be produced net. According to the current market price, it is worth 5250-6000 yuan. Therefore, breeding Meretrix meretrix is a good project with short time, high benefit, great market potential and almost zero risk, and its economic benefit is higher than other planting and breeding industries. The technology of raising Meretrix meretrix is not very complicated, and it does not occupy young and strong labor or large area of cultivated land. Clams are mainly fed with insects lured by black light, as well as pumpkins and sweet potatoes cooked in salty rice porridge.
Raising Meretrix meretrix is one of the projects for farmers to improve their economic benefits and increase their income.