In recent years, Jingdong County, Pu’er City, Yunnan Province has relied on its rich resource advantages to adapt to local conditions , grasp the sericulture industry as an industry that increases people’s income and make them rich, and actively build the sericulture industry into a green industry that enriches the people.
The sericulture industry is one of the traditional pillar industries of Huashan Town, Jingdong County 1. Walking into Potou Village, Huashan Town, acres of sericulture are glowing with vitality. In the sericulture garden, villager Li Taiguo was busy among the mulberry trees carrying a large basket on his back. He was seen holding the branches of the mulberry trees with one hand and flying left and right with the other hand, picking fresh mulberry leaves into the basket.
In Potou Village, it is now the time when spring silkworms are forming cocoons on their cocoons. During the concentrated period, spring silkworms began to spin silk and cocoons in every household’s silkworm room. Silkworm farmers devoted all their efforts to the post-production management of spring silkworms. In more than ten days, they will enter the cocoon sales stage.
”I have been raising silkworms at home for about seven years. Last year I raised them I bought 8 silkworms, each costing 2,000 yuan, and sold for about 20,000 yuan. This year I plan to raise 15 silkworms, which are expected to sell for about 30,000 yuan.” Li Taiguo, a villager in Potou Village, Huashan Town, said with a smile.
In recent years, the Huashan Town Party Committee and Government have increased investment in infrastructure and The sericulture industry has maintained a steady and positive development trend through technical assistance and exploration of development paths of scale, standardization and industrialization. Currently, 12 villages in the town are planting mulberry and raising silkworms, with a total area of mulberry leaves of more than 5,600 acres and more than 1,400 farmers. The total output value of silkworm cocoons will reach 20 million yuan in 2022.
Looking at Jingdong County, the county’s sericulture planting area in 2023 will be 3.4 10,000 acres, the output of fresh cocoons is expected to exceed 3,000 tons, with an output value of more than 165 million yuan. In the next step, Jingdong County will increase investment in infrastructure, strengthen support for sericulture farmers, focus on building large planting villages, cultivating large breeding households, and strengthen technical services to make the sericulture industry bigger and stronger.
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