Chapter 56 Feed Problems

Chapter 56 Feed Problems

Chapter 56 Feed Problems
the end of April.

The sun is shining outside the window and the birds are chirping non-stop.

A ray of slanting sunlight penetrated the glass window and shone on the green ivy beside the table. The air particles were swirling under the Tyndall effect.

The air conditioner worked tirelessly, bringing a cool contrast to the conference room.

In a small conference room at the company's headquarters, Jiang Miao gathered a group of senior executives for a month-end meeting.

“…Boss, the above is the income and expenditure situation for April.” After Ye Meijing finished speaking, she sat down.

Jiang Miao gently flipped through the financial statements.

The core businesses of Hailufeng Company saw a surge in revenue in April.

Among them, the sales revenue of eel fry was 1 million yuan.

Sales revenue of eel products was 277 million yuan.

The technology licensing fee is 1 million yuan.

Strawberry sales revenue was 73 yuan.

The gross profit of the direct-operated store is 4 yuan.

The gold shop's gross profit was 6 yuan.

The total amount is 2 million.

This is nearly double the revenue of the last four months combined.

Of course, this is because the revenue from technology licensing fees accounts for the bulk of the revenue.

The price of eel fry bottomed out and rebounded in April, which is also a key influencing factor. Although the average price of each glass eel has increased by 1200 cents, in fact, these cents have almost increased the revenue of Hailufeng Company by nearly million.

Jiang Miao continued to look through the financial statements and looked at the expenditure section for this month.

In addition to relatively fixed salary, performance, five insurances, rent, water, electricity, gas, fuel costs, and office supplies.

The company's largest expenditure in April was actually the purchase of gold raw materials. A total of 3000 million worth of gold raw materials were purchased.

At the same time, it spent 450 million to acquire a gold jewelry processing factory in Meilong Town, Haifeng County, further improving the company's industrial chain.

The expenditure on purchasing mature eels, which previously accounted for the majority of the total, has gradually been replaced by mature eels raised by the farms themselves, reducing expenditure by several million each month.

As for the cannery, does it purchase mature eels from other eel farms?
The answer is no.

Because the eels raised in open-air ponds at other eel farms have a distinct earthy smell, and the eels raised in indoor precision farming are relatively expensive, which will affect the cannery's product quality and production costs, the cannery does not purchase eels from other farms as raw materials.

At present, Hailufeng Company's canned yakiniku eels are in short supply, because the company's eliminated female eels have almost no earthy smell, and the price is moderate, which attracts many Japanese restaurants and sushi restaurants.

Just when Jiang Miao was looking through the financial statements.

My brother-in-law spoke up: "Chairman, there is one thing I want to say. The price of ordinary fish feed has risen a lot this year. The price of each ton of high-standard fish feed is almost 1.7 yuan. Usually, from leaf eels to mature eels, each ton of mature eels requires 2.2 tons of fish feed. In this way, our feed cost per ton of eels is about 3.6 yuan.

This year, the wholesale price of mature eels is generally between 9 and 12 yuan per ton, and the price of larger eels is around 8 yuan per ton. The cannery purchases eels from within the company, so the cost can be reduced to around 5 yuan per ton, but this is not a solution."

Hearing what his brother-in-law said, Jiang Miao shook his head helplessly: "Fish feed needs imported fish meal as raw material, and domestic feed factories have no solution."

The raw materials of fish feed determine that its price is difficult to control. After all, the price of imported fish meal is also rising year by year.

If it is the better cod fish meal, the import price is generally between 8 and 9 yuan per ton; other ordinary fish meals cost around 1.7 yuan per ton.

Even if the content of fish meal in fish feed is only about one-tenth, it still accounts for a very high cost.

Unless plant-based soybeans and corn can be used to replace high-protein fish meal, it will be difficult for fish feed prices to fall.

Suddenly Jiang Miao raised his eyebrows and thought of a solution: "Manager Zhang, I have thought of a way to solve the price of fish feed." "Oh? Chairman, what is your method?" My brother-in-law immediately became interested.

"Catfish! Egyptian catfish!"

"Egyptian fish?" My brother-in-law was stunned for a moment: "Using Egyptian fish as fish feed? Is this feasible?"

"Yes, the only problem is that the geosin content of Egyptian fish is very high. If it is used as a raw material for fish meal, it will cause the eels fed to have an earthy smell."

My brother-in-law immediately responded: "Don't we have special feed that removes the earthy smell?"

Jiang Miao smiled and nodded: "That's right. Anyway, the eels we use for breeding need to be cultivated indoors for more than a month. During this period of more than a month, the geosmin in the eels can be metabolized. Therefore, there is no problem in using Egyptian catfish as the raw material for fish meal."

"The chairman's idea is that we raise Egyptian fish ourselves for feed?" Zhang Xincheng guessed his thoughts.

Hearing this, Jiang Miao shook his head: "It's not necessary. We need to further expand our influence in the local area. Besides, Egyptian fish is a cheap and economic fish species."

“Let other farmers raise the crops?”

"Yes." Jiang Miao immediately ordered: "Manager Zhang, Jiale, you form a temporary working group, with Magong Town, Hongcao Town, and Meilong Town as the core, and find surrounding farmers to sign contracts. The purchase price for Egyptian catfish is 4 yuan per kilogram."

Chen Jiale, deputy manager of the purchasing department, nodded: "No problem."

"How many acres do you need to sign for?" my brother-in-law asked cautiously.

Jiang Miao recalled the growth cycle and yield per mu of Egyptian catfish, and then gave a rough reference: "After more than three months of breeding Egyptian catfish, the yield per mu can reach about five tons. At least 1,000 mu will be signed, and the increase or decrease will depend on the situation later."

"One thousand acres? Sure." My brother-in-law nodded.

After all, many people used to raise Egyptian catfish in the Hailufeng area, but because of the taste problem and the ancient rumor that it was "fed with feces", the reputation of this fish plummeted.

However, the taste of pond-raised Egyptian catfish is really hard to describe, especially the earthy smell, which is so strong that it can only be covered up by using heavy ingredients to make it barely edible.

Then he instructed Wang Feng, the purchasing manager: "Wang Feng, take people to inspect nearby factories and find a place to use as a feed factory. It must have a site that can produce at least 20 tons of feed per year, and purchase the equipment as soon as possible."

"Yes." Wang Feng quickly responded.

The reason why it is a 200,000-ton site is to prepare for future expansion.

With so much planned production capacity, Hailufeng Company’s own farms will definitely not be able to handle it, and exporting is the inevitable choice.

Although Egyptian catfish meal is low in cost, its disadvantage is that it will increase the earthy smell of fish meat.

This is also the reason why many feed factories do not use freshwater fish as raw materials. Many cheap freshwater fish have more or less earthy smell, and the cheaper the freshwater fish, the stronger the earthy smell.

Marine fish has very little earthy smell, especially cod meal, which contains almost no earthy smell. In addition, its protein content is extremely high, so the price naturally goes up.

The most taboo thing about today's high-value economic fish species is the presence of earthy smell, which will greatly reduce the selling price and even ruin their reputation.

Therefore, if Hailufeng Company's catfish feed is to be sold, it must be paired with specially formulated de-earthed feed. Farmers are required to use the de-earthed feed one month in advance before selling the eels. At the same time, the eels should be transferred to small flowing water ponds. This will quickly reduce the geosin accumulated in the eels' bodies.

If there were cheaper feed, many farmers would definitely be willing to try it.

Otherwise, the breeding costs will remain high and the net profit of farmers will be too low, which will in turn affect the enthusiasm for breeding, which in turn will affect the demand for eel fry.

Every production link will have an impact on the overall benefits of the product.

Fortunately, Hailufeng Company lowered the price of eel fry, reducing the cost of fry per acre of fish pond to about 5000 yuan.

Before, the cost of eel fry per acre of fish pond basically remained at around 6000 to 7000 yuan.

This more than one thousand yuan is the profit margin squeezed out.

Farmers will continue to raise eels only if there is profit margin, otherwise they will definitely turn to raising other aquatic products.

(End of this chapter)