It is the snail; farming system is the one that need the most of investment and professionalism. But in reward, it offers profitability as long as the investment made.
A detailed and polished planning, followed by a consequent and systematic organization is the key to make profitable an intensive system snail farm. You should have present the possibility is building a processing plant if you want to avoid intermediation, otherwise, it would not be rentable.
The Snail Product
To achieve having a snail product for sale it will be necessary to have a series of processes by stages. The fist step will be the set up of a reproducers farm. There are 2 ways:
- Buying reproducers with sanitary certificate an guaranteeo Recollecting snails from nature to form the farm.
- Buying increase the initial investment. You have to specialized places where they sell snail reproducers.
It accelerates the start. It is a way to make more viable the future sale according to the origin and quality guarantee that buy supposes. It entails a period of quarantine, of adaptation, having death losses during adaptation, during transportation from the original place, the incidence of pathologies; and others, adaptation to nutrition, or adapting new foods. Besides, overcoming importing processes.
Defining the number of reproducers of buying or recollecting according:
- Projected volume of reproduction
- Natural decrease of the number of eggs
- Eggs that do not hatch
- Natural mortality during reproduction
- Rule out of eggs and animals for not having commercial size.
- Natural mortality during all the phases of snail farming.
