In the sturgeon breeding base of Ningxia Shizuishan Fuhuixiang Ecological Agriculture Company in Zaoxiang Village, Xinghai Town, Dawukou District, Shizuishan City, Ningxia Province, more than 100 oval flowing water pools are neatly arranged in the breeding workshop, and in the pool, a sturgeon with a strong body and a weight of more than 100 catties swims with its tail. In a caviar processing workshop at the base, workers methodically carry out various processing steps - cleaning, egg retrieval, screening, pickling ......Boxes of packaged caviar are stored and ready to be sold to the place where the order is placed.
Fuhuixiang Ecological Agriculture Co., Ltd. is a key enterprise in Dawukou District to attract investment, the company to breed sturgeon, process sturgeon caviar and sturgeon meat products, and export as the main goal of aquatic science and technology leading enterprises. Since 2017, a total of 55 million yuan has been invested in the development of sturgeon farming and high-end caviar production projects. The breeding base covers an area of 300 acres, and has built 6,000 square meters of breeding greenhouses, 1,000 square meters of processing workshops, and a caviar production line. In addition, the project is equipped with a 3,500-square-meter high-level reservoir and a 2,000-square-meter tailwater purification tank.
At present, the breeding base has 98 standardized breeding ponds, with a total of 140,000 sturgeon, of which more than 1,300 females reach more than 15 kilograms. In 2023, Fuhuixiang Ecological Agriculture Co., Ltd. will expand the breeding scale to 20,000 pregnant eggs of more than 25 kilograms, and is expected to process and produce 4 tons of caviar annually, with an output value of 20 million yuan and a net profit of 4 million yuan. After the project is put into production, it will drive the employment of more than 30 surrounding farmers, and increase the annual wage income of farmers by more than 1.3 million yuan, effectively helping rural revitalization.
Sturgeon is known as the "living fossil" and "freshwater fish king" in the water, especially the caviar made from sturgeon eggs, which is rich in a variety of trace elements and nutrients required by the human body, and is known as the "black soft **" Fuhuixiang caviar processing was successful in the initial trial, which promoted the development of upstream and downstream industries, and Fuhuixiang Ecological Agriculture Company not only drove the income growth of local farmers by providing employment opportunities, but also made a positive contribution to local economic development. In the future, the company will continue to expand the scale of aquaculture and further improve production capacity, in order to provide more high-quality high-end caviar products for the market, and make important contributions to the extension and development of the fishery economic industry chain in Shizuishan City. (China's **Ningxia Reporter Station Hu Dongmei).
*: China**Net.