Right now, the first batch of silkworm cocoons are being sold in Donglan County, Hechi City, Guangxi Province in the new year. , the county’s silkworm farmers have had a good start with a bumper harvest of silkworm cocoons, and the total revenue from fresh cocoon sales is expected to reach 53 million yuan.
In Lachangtun, Bandeng Village, Changle Town, Donglan County, The three sons of Wei Meiqiu and his wife, who are over 70 years old, all go out to work. This year, with the guidance and help of village cadres, they planted mulberry and raised silkworms on 4 acres of land, and the first batch of silkworm cocoons produced a bumper harvest. “My family raised 8 grams of silkworms in the first batch this year, and harvested more than 160 kilograms of fresh cocoons. It is estimated that the income will be more than 5,000 yuan.” The couple said as they picked the white spring cocoons from the square bundle, their faces filled with joy. The joy of harvest.
Cen Yiyu, women director of the Bandeng Village Committee of Changle Town, told reporters, For the left-behind elderly people who raise silkworms, they provide timely assistance to ensure that everyone can raise silkworms and increase their income.
It is understood that since this year, Donglan County has continued to promote “party building” + enterprise + cooperative + farmer” and other business models, through party building guidance, enterprise promotion, technical support, policy guarantee, rewards and subsidies, mulberry garden transformation and implementation of Guangxi’s sericulture advantages and characteristicsindustrial cluster Project construction and other measures will promote the stable development of the county’s sericulture industry. At present, the county has a total mulberry area of 50,300 acres, 7 sericulture demonstration bases, and 50 small silkworm breeding rooms. The sericulture industry covers 13,439 households in 14 towns and 136 administrative villages; the promotion rate of excellent sericulture varieties, the total number of small silkworms The fertility rate and square grid promotion and utilization rate both reached 100%. This year, the first batch of silkworm breeding in the county has distributed more than 22,000 silkworm seeds. The output of fresh cocoons is expected to be 880 tons, and the income of silkworm farmers from selling cocoons will reach 53 million yuan.
“Next step, we will continue to implement incentives and subsidies for the sericulture industry Policies, and strengthen the standardized management of the county’s silkworm seed market, strengthen the supervision and guidance of the commercial small silkworm market, ensure that silkworm farmers obtain high-quality small silkworms, and promote the increase of income of silkworm farmers.” said Pan Wenyong, deputy director of the Donglan County Silkworm Industry Development Center.
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