In this year’s adjustment of the agricultural industry structure, Pingqiao Town, Wulong District, Chongqing still regards the mulberry industry as the local characteristic leading industry, and on the original basis, it has increased the mulberry area, developed sericulture households, and broadened the industrial chain. Measures will be taken to promote the diversified development of the mulberry industry, drive more people to steadily increase their income, and help rural revitalization.
With the arrival of autumn and winter, the picking of mulberry leaves has come to an end, but this does not affect the rhythm of picking mulberry leaves by sericulture farmer Li Daiqiong. Between her pulls and pulls, the mulberry leaves are quickly Soon to be included in the frame. Li Daiqiong told reporters that she used to be the village’s comprehensive service specialist. At the beginning of the year, in response to the village’s call, she transferred hundreds of acres of mulberry forests and developed a collective economy – sericulture. While increasing income, it also promoted Increase the income of surrounding farmers.
From April to November this year, Li Daiqiong raised 90 silkworms, with an estimated income of more than 200,000 yuan. He also led more than 20 surrounding villagers to work, and the working expenses alone amounted to more than 100,000 yuan. Some villagers also have land. Circulation income. Villager Li Daixin can earn about 20,000 yuan in income from Li Daiqiong’s sericulture industry during the sericulture season alone. Li Daixin said that in addition to doing farm work at home in his spare time, growing grains and feeding pigs, the total income for the year is still quite considerable.
It is understood that Wuyang Village originally had more than 800 acres of mulberry planting area. This year, due to the adjustment of the agricultural industry structure, an additional 300 acres of mulberry trees were added. There are now more than 130 households involved in mulberry and sericulture. It is a veritable village with mulberry industry, but this is only part of Pingqiao Town’s planned development of mulberry industry. In recent years, the town has based on the idea of dislocation, diversity, and multiple chains, and has radiated and driven the development of the mulberry industry in many villages such as Honglong, Gaowu, and Longyuan, creating a “mulberry” as an element that integrates leisure sightseeing, picking experience, and mulberry red wine. , understory economy and other diversified mulberry industry clusters, the annual output value of the mulberry industry is nearly 7 million yuan, driving more than 500 villagers in the town to increase their income, and effectively helping rural revitalization through industrial revitalization.
According to Yuan Lu, director of the Pingqiao Town Agricultural Service Center, the town has a total mulberry area of nearly 6,000 acres, and it is planned to add 1,200 acres of mulberry this year. Next, we will focus on developing mulberry planting and sericulture in Wuyang Village and Honglong Village; developing fruit mulberries and mulberry tea in Gaowu Village to create a 1,000-acre demonstration film; developing co-breeding of silkworms in Zhongcun Village and Longyuan Village to further Make Pingqiao mulberry industry bigger and stronger.
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