ZISIQIAO village, China - this sleepy village in the middle of the vast farmland in China's Eastern Zhejiang Province hides a deadly secret.
A step into the homes of everyone here the farming families brings visitors eye to eye with thousands of some of the world is the most feared creature-sneaks, many of them toxic.
Cobras, vipers and Pythons are aptly known as snake village, where the reptiles are deliberately raised for use as food and traditional medicine to bring in millions of dollars in a village, which would rely only on agriculture anywhere in Zisiqiao.
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"We are many species of snakes and the methods of culturing it research."
Yang, snakes, he, caught selling provider around the area to animal began in 1985. He began to make sure that would run the wild snakes out soon and so began to breed researched like snakes at home.
Period of three years, he had decided a capital - and many other villagers, emulate his success.
Today, more than three million lines in the village are bred each year by the 160 farming families.
Snakes are known for their medicinal properties in traditional Chinese medicine and are often drunk as soup or wine to increase the person immunity.
Yang has now started to make his own company be more formal business and build a brand, as well as to carry out research and development for its products, which range from snake snake wine and snake powder dried.
"Our original breeding method was approved and recognized by the province and the County." "You are working with the farming families Corporation see," said Yang.
"So the company explored on the snakes and they pass it to the farms for the breeding." "You said that this model worked very well."
The original breeding method was to simply compilation is males and females, but now careful research as the snakes grow, how to choose good females, study of their diet and as incubate eggs to increase survival rates.
Increasing demand
With climbing demand halls are used by product of line of restaurants and medicine by both prosperity to rising and a Government push for the breeding of animals in traditional medicine, are Zisiqiao villagers boast an annual income of hundreds of thousands of Yuan per year now.
Yang Xiubang, 46, has snakes in his house for more than twenty years, and said raising his been increased annual income ever.
"The demand for traditional Chinese medicine in China is very high," he said.
"After we produce the dried snake, most of them are sent to medicine factories." The serpent of livers, fish eggs, and snake include gallbladder. "
Yang added snake products from the village in countries like the United States, Germany, Japan and South Korea are currently the world's exported.
Closer to home, snakes from the village sold city of Hangzhou, where the Hangzhou Woai company offers a wide range of goods, including Snake powder in the bustling Zhejiang.
"Each part of the Serpent is appreciated," said Managing Director Gao Chenchang.
"China has a strong culture of snake, there are a lot of people- as in Guangzhou--snakes who like food."
With such a special product, Zisiqiao million dollar business is the envy of other rural communities. But Hongchang Yang said, that is stiff competition by other breeders, the snakes on a larger scale than his village are growing.
In addition, the breeding of snakes with obvious risks comes.
Snake farmers, she said bitten some by deadly snakes, been, and were saved only by injection of anti-venom medicine.
Yang Wenfu, 55, gave way to breeding species of venomous vipers previously bitten by one of them.
"Then I ventured to increase no more Viper." "Today I still fear," he said and added that his arm grew hugely swollen the bite.
"Life is precious, and making money is secondary."
Copyright 2011 Thomson Reuters.
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