Taking a bite out of the market for snakes
By Wu Ni in Shanghai | China Daily | Updated: 2013-02-25 05:55
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A farmer showing snakes he breeds at his snake farm in Chongqing. Snake farming is a big business in China. In Zisiqiao, a small village measuring just 0.9 square kilometers in East China's Zhejiang province, residents farm 4 million serpents. It has earned the reputation as China's No 1 snake village. Most villagers have an annual income of 50,000 yuan ($7,937) to 60,000 yuan. Chen Shichuan / For China Daily |
Zhejiang villagers build a serpent industry with output reaching 60m yuan in 2012
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