Chapter 56 Feed Problem
End of April.
The sun was shining brightly outside the window, and the birds were chirping.
A ray of setting sun penetrates the glass window and reflects on the pothos next to the table. The air particles are churning under the Tyndall effect.
The air conditioner worked tirelessly, bringing a chilly contrast to the conference room.
In the small conference room at the company's headquarters, Jiang Miao convened a group of senior executives to hold a small meeting at the end of the month.
"...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.
Almost all of Hailufeng's core businesses saw a surge in revenue in April.
Among them, the sales revenue of eel fry was 145.88 million yuan.
Sales revenue of eel products was 2.77 million yuan.
The technology licensing fee is 143.67 million yuan.
Strawberry sales revenue was 730,000 yuan.
The gross profit of the product directly operated store is 40,000 yuan.
The gold store’s gross profit is 60,000 yuan.
A total of 293.15 million.
This is nearly double the combined income of the past four months.
Of course, this is because technology licensing fees account for the bulk of the revenue.
The price of eel fry bottomed out in April, which is also a key influencing factor. Don’t look at the average price increase of 2 cents per glass eel. In fact, these 2 cents almost added nearly 12 million to Hailufeng Company. revenue.
Jiang Miao continued to look through the financial statements and looked at this month's expenses.
In addition to relatively fixed wages, performance, five insurances, rent, water, electricity, gas and fuel expenses, and office supplies.
The company's largest expenditure in April was actually the purchase of gold raw materials, with a total of 30 million worth of gold raw materials purchased.
At the same time, it also spent 4.5 million to acquire a gold jewelry processing factory in Meidu Town, Haifeng County next door, further improving the company's industrial chain.
The purchase of mature eels, which previously accounted for the bulk of the expenditure, has been gradually replaced by the mature eels raised by the farms themselves, reducing expenditures by millions every month.
As for the cannery, do they purchase mature eels from other eel farms?
The answer is no.
Because the eels raised in open ponds in other eel farms have a distinct earthy smell, and the eels raised in indoor precision farms are relatively expensive, which will affect the product quality and production costs of the cannery, so eels from other farms are not purchased as raw materials for the cannery. .
At present, Hailufeng Company's Kabayaki soft canned eels are almost in short supply. This is because the company's eliminated female eels have almost no earthy smell, and the price is moderate, so many Japanese restaurants and sushi restaurants flock to them.
Just when Jiang Miao was looking through the financial statements.
The brother-in-law spoke: "Chairman, there is one thing I want to say. The price of ordinary fish feed has increased a lot this year. The price of high-standard fish feed per ton has almost reached 17,000 yuan, usually ranging from leaf eels to mature eels. Each ton of mature eels requires 2.2 tons of fish feed. As a result, our feed cost per ton of eels is about 36,000 yuan
The wholesale price of mature eels this year is generally between 90,000 and 120,000 per ton, and the larger vegetable eel is also around 80,000 per ton. The cannery purchases the eels internally, so the cost can be reduced to about 50,000 per ton. But this is not the way to go. ”
Hearing what his brother-in-law said, Jiang Miao shook his head helplessly: "Fish feed requires imported fish meal as raw materials, and domestic feed factories have no choice."
The raw materials of fish feed determine that its price is difficult to control. After all, the price of imported fish meal is rising every year.
If it is the better cod fish meal, the import price is generally 80,000 to 90,000 yuan per ton; the price of other ordinary fish meal is also 17,000 yuan per ton.
Even if the content of fishmeal 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?" The brother-in-law immediately became interested.
"Catfish! Egyptian Pond Lice!"
"Egyptian fish?" The brother-in-law was stunned for a moment: "Using Egyptian fish as fish feed? Is this feasible?"
"Yes, the only problem is that the geosmin content of Egyptian fish is very high. If it is used as a raw material for fish meal, it will increase the earthy smell of the eels fed."
The brother-in-law immediately reacted: "Don't we have special feed to remove the fishy 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 geosin in the eels can be metabolized, so using There is no problem with Egyptian pond lice as a raw material for fish meal.”
"The chairman's idea is that we raise Egyptian fish ourselves to make feed?" Zhang Xincheng guessed what he was thinking.
Hearing this, Jiang Miao shook his head: "There is no need. We want to further expand our local influence, not to mention that Egyptian fish is a cheap economic fish species."
"Let other farmers breed?"
"Yes." Jiang Miao immediately ordered: "Manager Zhang, Jiale, you form a temporary working group, with Magong Town, Hongcao Town, and Meidu Town as the core, and find surrounding farmers to sign contracts. Egypt per kilogram The purchase price of pond lice is 4 yuan.”
Chen Jiale, deputy manager of the purchasing department, nodded: "No problem."
"How many acres do I need to sign?" my brother-in-law asked cautiously.
Jiang Miao recalled the growth cycle and yield per mu of Egyptian pond lice, and then gave a rough reference: "After more than three months of breeding Egyptian pond lice, the yield per mu can reach about five tons, and at least one thousand acres will be signed. In the later period, Let’s see if the situation increases or decreases.”
"A thousand acres? Okay." Brother-in-law nodded.
After all, Egyptian pond lice were cultivated by many people in the Hailufeng area in the past. It was because of the taste problem and the ancient rumors of "feeding with feces" that the reputation of this fish plummeted.
However, the smell of Egyptian pond lice raised in ponds is really hard to describe, especially the earthy smell, which is so strong that it can only be eaten by using heavy materials to cover it up.
Then he ordered Wang Feng, the manager of the purchasing department: "Wang Feng, please take someone to inspect nearby factories and build one as a feed factory. It must be a site that can produce at least 200,000 tons of feed per year, and the equipment must be purchased as soon as possible."
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"Yes." Wang Feng responded quickly.
The reason why it is a 200,000-ton site is to prepare for future expansion.
With so much production capacity planned, Hailufeng Company’s own farms will definitely not be able to accommodate it, so exporting is an inevitable choice.
Although Egyptian pond lice fish meal is low in cost, its disadvantage is that it increases the earthy smell of the fish.
This is also the reason why many feed factories do not use freshwater fish as raw materials. Many cheap freshwater fish have a more or less earthy smell. The cheaper the freshwater fish, the stronger the earthy smell.
Marine fish has very little earthy smell, especially cod fish meal, which has almost no earthy smell. In addition, the protein content is extremely high, so the price has naturally increased.
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 damage the reputation.
Therefore, if the pond lice feed of Hailufeng Company is to be sold, it must be paired with a specially prepared feed that removes the smell of soil, so that farmers can use the feed that removes the smell of soil one month in advance before selling the eels, and at the same time transfer the eels to a small flowing pond. This can quickly reduce the accumulation of geosin in the body of eels.
If there is cheaper feed, many farmers will definitely be willing to try it.
Otherwise, the cost of breeding 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 has an impact on the overall effectiveness of the product.
Fortunately, Hailufeng Company has lowered the price of eel fry, so that the cost of fry per mu of fish ponds has dropped to about 5,000 yuan.
In the past, the cost of eel fry per mu of fish ponds was basically around 6,000 to 7,000 yuan.
This more than a thousand yuan is the profit margin squeezed out.
Only if there is a profit margin, farmers will continue to cultivate eels, otherwise farmers will definitely turn to the cultivation of other aquatic products.
(End of chapter)