Veteran builds fish tank to raise "eat and cry" children, earns hundreds of millions

Veteran Le Anh Dao and his wife next to the cement tank system used to raise frogs. Photo: Xuan Hoang

The residential land of veteran Le Anh Dao's family on the slope of Ly Thanh mountain. Unlike everyone else in the neighborhood who grows perennial crops with low economic efficiency, Mr. Dao converted his garden land into many areas.

In each area, he plans to grow different types of trees and animals, bringing high economic efficiency. Of which, he spends about 300 m²to build ponds to raise frogs for meat and frog breeding for 15 years now.

Thai frogs are relatively easy to raise; meat frogs can be sold after 6 months of raising. Photo: Xuan Hoang

CCB Le Anh Dao said: Frogs are relatively easy to raise, the food is a combination of industrial food and shrimp, fish, field crabs, earthworms; The frog breed he is raising is a crossbred Thai frog with our field frog. By grafting the mother frog to a Thai breed, the father frog to a field frog. Therefore, the offspring develop well, the weight of the frog meat is large.

With 200 pairs of parent frogs today, each year CCB Le Anh Dao supplies the market with tens of thousands of frog breeds and over 2 tons of frog meat, worth over 140 million VND.

Hybrid frog breed has large weight. Photo: Xuan Hoang

As a new breeding subject, improving the weight of field frogs, many people in and outside the district came to learn from his experience and successfully raised them, bringing in high income.

In addition to being good at raising frogs, veteran Le Anh Dao also earns hundreds of millions of dong each year from selling apples, grapefruits, custard apples...

Mr. Hoang Van Chin - Chairman of Ly Thanh Commune People's Committee said: Veteran Le Anh Dao is a 1/4 class war invalid, a victim of Agent Orange. He has become a typical example of good economic performance in the commune for many years, and has been followed by local associations./.