China's clampdown on exotic animal farms has affected nearly 250,000 jobs, with businesses unable to sell animals worth some 11 billion yuan.
Bamboo rat farmer Liu Yanqun was just starting to make plump returns from the rodents in his farm in central China when the coronavirus broke out at the end of last year.
The ban has cost tens of thousands of jobs in rural China, where the relatively cheap form of farming of wildlife had once been promoted as a way to lift people out of poverty. In May, Hunan was among the first provinces to offer compensation to encourage farmers to switch livelihoods. "We couldn't kill them or sell them," said cobra farmer Li Weiguo, 61, adding that many of his reptiles had died by the time the authorities came for them.- 'Crying inside' -
"All the money came from loans... and friends and relatives. I have no means to repay them and they ask me regularly these days," said Li, the cobra farmer."Last year, I had plans to expand the business... but the coronavirus outbreak caused us to suffer huge losses," said Huang, 47.
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