“Hey! These mulberries are big and sweet!” In early May, in Sanpin Village, Damiao Town, Tongliang District, bunches of plump, red and purple mulberries were hung all over the branches, and tourists in groups of twos and threes carried baskets. The basket shuttled through the mulberry forest, picking two from time to time and throwing them into his mouth.
“You pick slowly, pick big ones, there are white mulberries over there.” Su Yang, the owner of the mulberry base, told reporters that the mulberry trees are treasures from head to toe, and they are not only delicious. Just a mulberry.
Damiao Town has always had a tradition of planting mulberry and raising sericulture. Sanpin Village is the largest village in Damiao Town that grows mulberry and raises sericulture, with the mulberry garden area alone reaching 2,000 acres.
In order to promote the economic development of sericulture production areas and increase farmers’ income, Tongliang District has made great efforts to reform the traditional sericulture industry in recent years and strive to find a new path in addition to the traditional mulberry planting and sericulture model.
In the past few years, Damiao Town has introduced professional agricultural companies to build mulberry plantations, promote fruit mulberry cultivation, and promote the integrated development of agriculture, culture, commerce, sports, and tourism.
“Sang Pao’er has been growing up as a snack, but he still doesn’t know that he can be used as fruit and can be sold for more than ten yuan per catty?” At first, the villagers were hesitant.
As more than 60 varieties of mulberries in the 380-acre plantation begin to take shape, many tourists come to pick them during the mulberry ripening season every year. During the peak mulberry season, it was hard to find a farmhouse in the surrounding areas, so the villagers’ doubts were gradually dispelled.
Damiao Mulberry has become famous, but everyone knows that we can’t just focus on the mulberries.
“If there are more mulberry trees, we can also raise more silkworms, but they must be raised in a modern way.” Hou Wenlei, deputy secretary of the Party branch of Sanpin Village, is a “post-90s generation”. He has seen villagers using mulberry leaves since he was a child. Sericulture.
Southwestern University, Sanpin Village Collective Economic Organization and business owners jointly built an intelligent sericulture workshop, which overturned the traditional sericulture model that had been followed for thousands of years and opened everyone’s eyes.
“The silkworms here do not eat mulberry leaves directly, but grind the mulberry leaves into powder to raise silkworms.” Hou Wenlei said that the sericulture workshop can realize nearly 20 batches of stepped silkworm raising every year. The annual output of silkworm cocoons is 120 tons, which has completely changed the past problems of scattered and sporadic silkworm rearing that consumed a lot of manpower, had low efficiency, and had low utilization rate of mulberry leaves.
Not only that, high-quality silkworm cocoons are directly made into silk quilts in the rural revitalization workshop of the mulberry base, and the supply exceeds demand. “The price of a silk quilt ranges from 400 to 3,000 yuan depending on the weight, and the added value can be dozens of times that of selling cocoons directly,” said Liu Hancheng, the person in charge of the workshop.
Now, silkworm farmers can not only sell their own silkworm cocoons to rural revitalization workshops at a guaranteed minimum price of 40 yuan per kilogram, but can also work in mulberry bases to increase their income.
Sanpin Village also jointly established a Moriella R&D center in the village with Dr. Liao Xingyu from the School of Resources and Environment of Southwest University.
“Usually we only see mulberry leaves used to raise silkworms. In fact, mulberry branches are very good edible fungus culture materials.” Liao Xingyu said that the pruned mulberry branches are cultivated in greenhouses through a series of technological processes. , you can cultivate edible fungi such as fungus and shiitake mushrooms. Shiitake mushrooms cultivated from mulberry branches not only have high yields and excellent quality, but the fungus residue can also be used as fertilizer.
“Currently, Damiao Town’s annual income from sericulture and by-products has reached more than 12 million yuan, and the annual output value from silkworm cocoon acquisition and processing has reached more than 58 million yuan.” Li Jinyang, director of the Damiao Town Agricultural Service Center, introduced that with mulberry, The annual output value of the comprehensive utilization and processing of mulberry leaves, mulberry branches and silkworm excrement as raw materials has reached more than 45.9 million yuan, and the annual income from sericulture agricultural tourism has reached more than 5.1 million yuan, achieving an annual increase of more than 10% in the disposable income of rural residents, truly “eating a mulberry tree” Squeeze it dry.”
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