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CCTV reported that Professor Hong Yijiang’s team provided technical support for starting a business and overcoming poverty of aquaculture fa

Sep 21, 2017


On September 18, 2017, “Technology Garden” column of Military and Agricultural Channel, the seventh channel of CCTV, gave special report on the story that Professor Hong Yijiang’s technical team of School of Life Sciences helped farmers to start a business.


“Technology Garden” column reported with the title “Constantly Moving Bighead Carp”, introduced the startup story of Yu Jun, a farmer of Tianhu agricultural cooperative of Shangrao County, Jiangxi Province. In the process of starting a business, he encountered a lot of technical problems and bottlenecks, the cooperative was attracted to find Professor Hong Yijiang of School of Life Sciences to help him.


From 2013 onwards, the person in charge of science and technology of the cooperative Zhu Shugan “stuck” with teacher Hong, and Hong teacher also “readily received the order”. In the process of communication with enterprise, Professor Hong said that the value of ordinary bighead carp is low, only improve the quality will put up the price. Professor Hong recommended to improve quality through different elevations and different depths. Under the guidance of Professor Hong, the cooperative finally bred high quality “Xiangu Fish” through fattening, delaying growth and reducing weight the three technical methods after three years’ practice, and solved the bighead carp’s general technical problems of earthy smell and poor taste. According to the test of Jiangxi Aquatic Animal Resources and Utilization Key Laboratories of Nanchang University, its DHA content is 7-8% higher than ordinary bighead carp’s. The experts group’s sensory assessment basically was that it has no smell and tastes good. In the market, the fish’s sales price is nearly 10 times higher than ordinary bighead carp’s. Even so, the demand for this fish exceeds the supply.


As the chief expert of special aquatic industry system in Jiangxi Province and the post expert of the national agricultural industry technical system, Professor Hong Yijiang has been working hard on Jiangxi’s aquaculture industry development and the precision poverty alleviation of poor peasants in mountainous areas. With the technical service of Professor Hong, the cooperative sold tens of millions of yuan’s “Xiangu Fish” in 2016-2017, which brought job and precision poverty alleviation to the poor peasants in the mountainous areas and helped peasants to get rid of poverty quickly.


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