On February 7, good news came from the feed sericulture demonstration base in Chenwan Village, Tuocha Town, Rudong County, Jiangsu Province. The first batch of silkworms raised on artificial feed in Rudong County in 2022 began to enter the cocooning stage.
On the fourth day of the first lunar month, when the reporter came to the home of Ji Bin, a feed silkworm farmer in Chenwan Village, Tuancha Town, he was feeding the silkworms that were about to spin their cocoons. Ji Bin told reporters that the silkworms were brought in for feed testing at the end of last year. With the new formula, the silkworms were raised well and neatly.
This time, the County Sericulture Guidance Station innovated the feed formula and formulated a total of 6 kinds of artificial feed for small silkworms and 5 kinds of artificial feed for large silkworms. Most of them have achieved good results, including 5 kinds of feed combinations. Silkworms are large and strong, approaching or exceeding the results of mulberry leaf silkworm breeding of the same species.
On the seventh day of the first lunar month, the reporter came to Ji Bin’s home again. It was snowing heavily outside, and the silkworms were busy spinning silk and making cocoons. Ji Bin was catching mountain cocoons in the silkworm room. He said that this time, feed silkworms The quality is larger than that of the same species raised with mulberry leaf silkworms in autumn.
Han Yifei, the person in charge of the County Sericulture Guidance Station, said that they will carefully analyze and study the test results, further optimize the feed formula combination, and lay the foundation for the practical use of artificial feed sericulture in the future. At the same time, we seek the participation of government and social capital to carry out innovative development of artificial feed sericulture facilities and equipment, and strive to be the first in the country to promote the practical and large-scale industrialization of artificial feed sericulture technology to help rural revitalization.
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