Recently, in Qianjiang District, Chongqing City, scales were opened to purchase mulberry cocoons in the late autumn of this year. The Dai Song family, a large sericulture farmer, became busy again. Looking at the baskets of snow-white mulberry cocoons piled up at the purchase station, the Dai Song family welcomed a new arrival. Harvest season.
Qianjiang District is the national sericulture biological industry base. There are more than 20,000 standardized silkworm sheds in the district, and the area of high-quality mulberry gardens is more than 93,000 acres, covering 80 % of towns and streets. Affected by the season and climate, silkworm breeding and cocoon purchasing in Qianjiang District are divided into eight batches this year, with late autumn silkworms being the last batch.
In order to improve the quality of silkworm cocoons, Qianjiang District vigorously promotes projects such as automated labor-saving silkworm platforms and intelligent chemical factories for co-cultivation of small silkworms, while increasing production and saving manpower. , let technology empower rural revitalization.
In the Xiaosi Intelligent Co-nurturing Factory, the silkworm babies live in an intelligent “nursery”, and each co-nurturing workshop is equipped with an environmental intelligent control system , which can collect and automatically process indoor environmental parameters online. “Compared with traditional silkworm co-breeding, the intelligent co-breeding factory can breed 10%-15% more silkworms, which is equivalent to increasing the cocoon production of silkworm farmers by 10%-15%.” Senior agronomist of Chongqing Sericulture Academy Wang Wenpin said.
“In the past, even if we raised silkworms as a whole family, we could only raise 5 or 6 silkworms at most every year, and the quality was unstable. 20,000 yuan. Not only do we now have an automated, labor-saving sericulture machine, but we also have science and technology commissioners come to our door to guide us on how to plant mulberry trees, prevent and control pests and diseases, etc. This year, our family raised a total of 75 silkworms, among which the purchase price of first-level mulberry cocoons in late autumn reached 49 yuan. /kg, the annual income is expected to be more than 140,000 yuan.” Dai Song said.
In order to mobilize the enthusiasm of farmers to plant mulberry and raise sericulture, the local government and leading sericulture enterprises have ensured a steady increase in farmers’ income through measures such as guaranteed minimum price purchase and bottom-line income insurance. It is estimated that Qianjiang will purchase more than 80,000 tons of mulberry cocoons this year, and the average income of silkworm farmers will be more than 25,000 yuan.
As the sericulture industry flourishes, the Qianjiang silk industry also “breaks out of its cocoon and becomes a butterfly”, forming a complex that integrates cocoon baking, silk reeling, and weaving. Silk and clothing are integrated into the entire silk spinning industry chain, and the Silk Museum has become a “check-in place” for tourists.
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