There are more than 20,000 acres of mulberry orchards in Hubei, and silkworm cocoons are produced every year The output exceeds 3,500 tons, and the annual comprehensive output value reaches 1.5 billion yuan. It is now the autumn silkworm harvest season, and silkworm farmers across Hubei are seizing the opportunity to collect and sell silkworm cocoons.
In Xiangyang, the main sericulture production area in Hubei In Nanzhang, silkworm farmers deliver white silkworm cocoons to the collection point. Silkworm farmer Li Daquan had a bumper harvest this year, with baskets of cocoons earning him considerable income.
Banqiao Town, Nanzhang County, Xiangyang Li Daquan, a villager from Group 4 of Xinji Village: “In previous years, we only lived between 80 and 90 kilograms. This year, we made 1,000 kilograms of cocoons for every 10 pieces of paper. The annual income from sericulture was 25,000 yuan.”
In Banqiao Town, Li Daquan is not the only one who has enjoyed a bumper harvest one person. At the beginning of this year, the cooperative promoted the co-breeding and centralized feeding model of small silkworms to silkworm farmers, and also introduced a new silkworm species “Chu Feng Han Yun”, shortening the silkworm raising cycle to 15 days. New varieties and new technologies have greatly increased the profits of silkworm farmers.
Hongmao Silkworm Cocoon, Nanzhang County, Xiangyang Tao Shuangbao, general manager of the company: “This variety has very strong disease resistance, and the silk yield is 20% higher than that of traditional varieties.”
Wu Fan, a researcher at the Institute of Economic Crops, Hubei Academy of Agricultural Sciences: “Its cocoon silk is relatively thick, suitable for firing 5A and aboveraw silk, which ensures its silk quality and its robustness, and brings a lot of economic benefits to silkworm farmers and silk-burning enterprises. Benefits.”
In Yuan’an County, Yichang In Leizu Town, a silk quilt processing production line with an investment of 350,000 yuan has just been completed and put into operation. The snow-white and translucent silkworm cocoons are processed into beds of soft silk quilts here. The local area has also begun to develop a series of special sericulture products, taking the road of integrating mulberry and tourism.
Leizu Town He, Yuan’an County, Yichang Wang Xuewen, deputy secretary of the Yecun Party Branch: “The added value of a piece of our silkworm paper has doubled, from more than 2,000 yuan to more than 6,000 yuan.”
Chai Zhengxiong, head of the Agricultural Office of Leizu Town, Yuan’an County, Yichang: “Promote sericulture and research Integrate education to fully tap the potential of the sericulture industry and polish the cultural business card.”
At present, Hubei continues to extend the sericulture industry chain, and has cultivated 4 provincial key leading enterprises that integrate cocoon production, harvesting and drying, reeling and processing, and more than 100 enterprises above designated size 10. The geographical indication product “Yunyang Mulberry Cocoon”, the Chinese famous brand product “Mengsijia” silk quilt and other products have continued to increase in popularity, driving an increase of 288 million yuan in income for silkworm farmers last year.
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