Carp farming is becoming more and more popular in Japan

Ojiya City in Niigata Prefecture, more than 250 km north of Tokyo, is known as the “cradle” of Japanese ornamental carp. Here, carp farming has been started since the 19th century and is increasingly popular, now, carp farming has also become a traditional profession of this city.

According to statistics, in Ojiya city, Niigata prefecture, Japan, 45% of households are engaged in ornamental carp farming with many large fish farms, one of which is Mr. Takayuki Kobari’s Dainichi farm. This farm has more than 10 aquariums specializing in raising large ornamental carp, in addition to many smaller sized tanks.

Mr. Kobari said, to get a beautiful and valuable fish is not easy. “The most difficult thing when raising ornamental carp is that the fish does not grow as we want. When we raise fish, we want the fish to grow bigger, the fins have more beautiful colors, but these are not factors that can be interfered with. OK, even if you feed them more.”

With unique climate, soil and farming techniques, Ojiya city is the area with the most beautiful and rare ornamental carp in Japan, usually the value of fish will be evaluated based on color, shape. and maturity, Japanese ornamental carp has its own characteristics, always more expensive than fish in other countries, a beautiful ornamental carp here can cost up to several hundred thousand dollars.

“There are many customers who come here to learn and buy ornamental carp, including customers from Vietnam. In the coming time, we will make efforts to increase farming production to introduce more to everyone. about the beauty of Japanese ornamental carp,” said Mr. Takayuki Kobari.

In addition to fish farms, the city of Ojiya has built a museum specializing in ornamental carp so that people can visit and learn about this expensive fish. It can be seen that carp farming not only has commercial value and brings huge profits to Japanese farmers, but also becomes an art that brings joy to those around.

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