On June 13-14, Zhou Chengwei, promotion researcher, director of the Northern Jiangsu Comprehensive Experimental Station of the National Sericulture Industry Technology System, deputy director of the Jiangsu Provincial Sericulture Research Institute, post scientist of the National Sericulture System, and planter of the Sericulture Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences A group of 10 experts including researcher Zhao Weiguo, director of the Mulberry Research Office, Chen Tao, deputy director of the Sericulture Industry Product Quality Supervision, Inspection and Testing Center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and other experts went to Dongtai City to investigate sericulture and silkworm seed production. Gu Zhengjiang, director of the Yancheng Sericulture Technology Guidance Station, and Wang Mei, director of the Dongtai Municipal Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau, accompanied the investigation.
At the Dongtai City Silkworm Breeding Farm, the research team listened to reports on the farm’s spring silkworm breeding, germplasm resource protection, silkworm seed quality testing, and the implementation of silkworm seed management measures, and reviewed the silkworm seed production files. Checked the silkworm seed production and testing site. Dongtai Silkworm Breeding Farm is the largest silkworm seed production unit in Jiangsu Province. It is one of the units for determining the characteristics of silkworm genetic resources determined by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. It is responsible for the breeding and 30 Provincial and local species resource protection tasks. The research team affirmed the farm’s strict focus on quality management and overfulfilled the tasks of silkworm breeding and protection plan.
At Jiayuan Silkworm Cocoon Breeding Farm in Gujin Village, Tangyang Town, Dongtai City, the research team inspected in detail the second batch of silkworms forming cocoons on Jiayuan Farm, the third batch of silkworms co-breeding, and the green ecology of diseases and pests in the mulberry garden. Prevention and control, mulberry cultivation model tests suitable for mechanized multi-batch pruning, mulberry silkworm and sheep circular breeding and utilization models, etc., and discussions and exchanges with farm production managers. Jiayuan Silkworm Cocoon Breeding Farm in Dongtai City is one of the key experimental demonstration bases built by the National Sericulture System Subei Experimental Station. This year, it was rated as one of the first batch of “Jiangsu Province’s fully mechanized and intelligent typical bases (parks) for agricultural production” by the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs this year. It is the first and currently the only one in the sericulture industry in the province. The research team highly affirmed Dongtai City’s vigorous efforts in the introduction, innovation, testing, demonstration and promotion of new varieties, new technologies, new models and new machines, and stated that it would further strengthen the in-depth cooperation between the national sericulture system and Dongtai’s sericulture industry, and The best research results are applied to Dongtai, and the latest research experiments are placed in Dongtai to accelerate the transformation and application of scientific and technological achievements and help the high-quality development of Dongtai’s sericulture.
At Fu’an Cocoon Silk Co., Ltd., the research team held discussions with Chairman Lu Song and General Manager Lu Hong of Fu’an Cocoon Silk Co., Ltd. to understand the company’s production situation and analyze the development trend of the cocoon and silk industry this year. The person in charge of the Dongtai Sericulture Technology Guidance and Management Center reported on the production and service of spring silkworms this year. The city raises 83,000 silkworm seeds and produces 3,580 tons of cocoons. The average purchase price reaches 56.5 yuan/kg. Farmers earn 202 million yuan from spring cocoons. By-products such as mulberry buds, mulberries, and mulberry branches and intercropping in mulberry orchards earn about 32 million yuan. The income from sericulture is about 234 million yuan. 20% of farmers in the city earn more than 5,000 yuan per mu of mulberry in spring.
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