The endless mulberry orchards, with mulberry family farms of different sizes standing next to each other… A few days ago, our reporter met with Cheng Demei, who participated in the media tour of “Building a High-Quality Ecosystem Together? Drawing a Blueprint for the Urban Area” Visitors from Ziyang and other places visited the Modern Sericulture Industrial Park in Lezhi County, Ziyang City, and learned how the local area promotes the iterative upgrading of the sericulture industry with a green foundation.
Seek transformation and development to promote industrial upgrading
Sericulture production in Lezhi County has a long history of 1,500 years and is a characteristic leading industry of the county economy. However, with the development of the economy and society, the shortcomings of traditional sericulture in “each group” have become more and more obvious, such as backward technology and difficulty in scaling up. Therefore, the local government and relevant departments began to plan to build a new type of modern sericulture industrial park to allow manual labor. Transform and develop towards mechanization and intelligence, and promote the iterative upgrading of this traditional industry.
The core area of the completed Lezhi County Modern Sericulture Industrial Park is located in Dongshan Town, with 10,000 acres of mulberry gardens. The industrial park has established a “park + leading enterprise + cooperative (family farm) + farmer” model, and has introduced four companies such as Hongqi Silk Factory and Silk Road to settle in the park. The model drives the development of new business entities such as sericulture family farms, college student entrepreneurs, and farmhouses.
“We adopt new technologies such as mechanized and intelligent breeding, soil testing and formula fertilization, green prevention and control of pests and diseases, and return of silkworm excrement compost to the fields. We can reduce the use of simple chemical fertilizers and pesticides by 30%, achieving green and Organic, ecological, and focused on sustainable development.” The person in charge of the Modern Sericulture Industrial Park said that mechanized and intelligent breeding have brought about reductions in labor costs and increases in profits. “It used to require 50 workers to raise 300 silkworms. Now, through Professional mechanized equipment only requires 5 people to complete it.”
Deeply dig into the sericulture culture to accelerate the integration of agriculture and tourism
“Birds are singing among the mulberry leaves, and the green strips are soft again.” The unique geographical conditions have created Lezhi County’s patchwork and unique Songhai landscape, and also laid a good foundation for the integrated development of local agriculture and tourism.
“The foundation is good, but we need to keep up with the planning.” The person in charge of the Modern Sericulture Industrial Park said that in conjunction with the “China Sangdu” construction plan in Lezhi County, the industrial park was built with the “Sanghai Mulangtian” As a carrier, in accordance with the overall idea of ”establishing mulberry as an industry and diversified development”, we build a development pattern of “one town, three districts and one ring”, and connect the smart sericulture demonstration area, resource development functional area, sericulture through the “sericulture theme park circuit path” The four industrial sectors of the Agricultural and Tourism Integrated Development Zone and Dongshan Sericulture Town are vigorously building Sangtian Commune, Sanghai Corridor and other attractions.
Precisely because they are optimistic about the prospects for the integrated development of agriculture and tourism in Lezhi County, college student Deng Rutao and his wife resolutely returned to their hometown to start a business. They contracted a mulberry garden in the park, ran an ecological farm, vigorously developed a full mulberry feast, and also opened projects such as mulberry fruit picking, sericulture experience, and handmade silk quilt making. The annual revenue was considerable.
According to reports, in recent years, Lezhi County has built a China Sangdu Culture Exhibition Hall by deeply exploring the sericulture culture, and held the “Hometown of Chinese Pastoral Poetry” Sangdu Themed Poetry Festival and the China Sangdu National Short Novel Essay Competition. Competitions, rural tourism festivals, mulberry picking experience tours and other activities, and projects such as the Sangtian Commune, Songhai Corridor, lake health care, Sangdu Songhai Theme Park, intangible cultural heritage exhibitions, and industrial heritage tourism are promoted, with an average annual reception of 200,000 tourists. More than 100,000 people were served, and the revenue was more than 50 million yuan.
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