On Jun 10th, crayfish breeders were feeding crayfishes in the Xiachi Base of Hezhong Fumin Professional Cultivation Cooperative in Tiancheng Town, Chongyang County.

Currently, this cooperative has build a rice-crayfish cultivation farm covering an area of 260 mu, besides, it also has a medicinal herb planting base, a Hunan lotus base and an organic vegetable and fruit planting base, which is estimated to reach an annual production value of 5 million yuan. This cooperative is gradually forming a development model integrated breeding, technical training, processing and marketing. [Photo by Chen Hongju/Xianning Daily]