Yuexi, Anhui: A “big article” on silkworm breeding and industrial revitalization with a “Silk Road”

Yuexi, Anhui: A “big article” on silkworm breeding and industrial revitalization with a “Silk Road”

Recently, in the silkworm breeding greenhouse of Xingwei Sericulture Professional Cooperative in Yuexi County, Anhui Province, rows of square cobs were hung in the air. Countless silkworm babies have been successfully grown on the neatly arranged square coves. “Going up the mountain”, the white and plump body is twisting hard and spitting out soft silk.

As the county with the largest sericulture production scale in the central region, Yuexi County, Anqing City, has ranked first in sericulture production scale in Anhui Province for 13 consecutive years and has been rated as the “Hometown of Sericulture in China”. Yuexi currently has an area of ​​80,800 acres of mulberry gardens and 16,700 sericulture farmers. The mulberry sericulture industry has become one of the important pillar industries for local farmers to increase their income and increase agricultural efficiency.

Improvement + Intelligent Support of Traditional Production ModelTransformation and Upgrading

Professional division of labor and cooperation, time-saving and segmented breeding, minimizing the difficulty of farmers’ feeding. The Xingyue Sericulture Service Department of Yuexi County, a state-owned enterprise directly under the administration of the County Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau, uniformly purchases excellent silkworm varieties across the country, conducts uniform greening and incubation, and then distributes them to 179 standardized small silkworm co-breeding rooms in the county for professional co-breeding Households carefully raise the silkworms for 10 days until they are three years old and then transfer them to farmers for feeding.

By improving the intelligence of silkworm houses and improving mulberry leaf varieties, farmers are promoting the sustainable development of traditional sericulture production in an ecological, efficient, large-scale and high-quality direction. In the spacious and bright silkworm room, the labor intensity of silkworm farmers is reduced and the quality of silkworm cocoons is greatly improved by using technologies such as orbital feeding of silkworms, automated clustering, water curtain air conditioning to moisturize and cool, and electric cocoon harvesting.

In addition, by planting hybrid mulberry leaves that are resistant to cutting, the mulberry leaf varieties have been improved. The mulberry leaves can be cut from once a year to 3-4 times a year, and the yield of mulberry leaves per mu has been greatly increased. , the new model of sericulture has improved the quality of silkworm cocoons and the efficiency of mulberry breeding, enabling the transformation and upgrading of the traditional sericulture and mulberry production model.

Adding value and improving efficiency, the silkworm industry chain is gradually extended and expanded

From the traditional pastoral sericulture model to today’s intelligent silkworm houses, Yuexi County has always been “riding all the way” on the road to developing and expanding the sericulture industry. In recent years, Yuexi has also actively extended its industrial chain around silkworm production and processing, gradually expanding into silk reeling, silk weaving, home textiles, comprehensive utilization, cultural creation and other directions. It is understood that there are currently 5 cocoon silk processing enterprises in Yuexi County, and its comprehensive cocoon and silk processing capacity ranks first in Anqing City.

As a leading enterprise in the national agricultural industrialization, Anhui Lianfeng Silk Making Company has successfully produced products in compliance with the EU by developing sericulture bases and improving silk reeling processing facilities and equipment. The price of standard ecological cocoons, ecological silk, raw silk has increased by 100,000 yuan per ton. Yuexi County Changning Silk Weaving Co., Ltd. has introduced Italianimported rapier looms, and its processing efficiency has been increased by 7 times compared with before. Changning Weaving Silk took the initiative to integrate into the Yangtze River Delta and cooperated with Zhejiang merchants to produce jacquard high-end silk fabrics that sell well in the market. At the same time, through online e-commerce, it opened online and offline dual sales channels to promote Strengthen the comprehensive, in-depth and accurate connection between the production and sales of mulberry cocoon and silk products, and broaden the channels for people to increase their income.

In addition, Liu Jun, director of the Yuexi County Characteristic Agricultural Service Center, also introduced that Yuexi County uses various methods to encourage village-level collective economies to develop sericulture industry, sericulture experience, science education, etc., to extend the industrial chain and enhance the value chain. . The county has established a variety of interest linkage mechanisms, adopting the “company + cooperative + farmer” model and “company + village committee + cooperative + farmer” model. According to the formula of “guaranteed income + dividends based on shares”, while developing and strengthening the collective economy, Drive farmers to steadily increase their income.

“Turning waste into treasure” Sangzhi achieves a leap forward in diversified development models

Based on mulberry and diversified development, Yuexi County continues to explore and develop industrial forms. The edible mulberry branches produced by Siyuan and Simin companies in Yuexi County turn discarded mulberry branches into “treasures”, with an annual production of 6 million sticks and 600,000 kilograms of mulberry branches and fungus; the mulberry branch series of handicrafts produced by Anhui Hongfang Crafts Co., Ltd. Selling in Europe and the United States, the annual export volume reaches 5 million US dollars. In addition, through the comprehensive utilization of resources such as “Yuexi mulberry paper”, mulberry leaf black tea, mulberry leaf alkaloid tablets, dried mulberry fruits, mulberry wine, and mulberry sprouts, the sericulture series products have been diversified. Small mulberry branches have “turned waste into treasure” three times, and Yuexi County has leapfrogged from the traditional “one cocoon, one thread” single industry development model to “a mulberry garden, a series of resources” diversified development model.

Liu Jun introduced that next, Yuexi will expand the scale of its sericulture base, promote the application of efficient and labor-saving sericulture technology, and combine the “three changes” reform to innovate new models of large-scale production and adopt the “silk + tourism” model. , create industrial demonstration parks and other measures to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of sericulture, and promote the quality, efficiency, transformation and upgrading of the industry.

In recent years, the mulberry leaf planting area in Yuexi has steadily increased, and the economic benefits of the sericultureindustrial economy have continued to improve, becoming a pillar industry for farmers to increase their income and become rich. At present, there are 17 cocoon-producing towns in the county, 2 cocoon Wandan towns, 41 sericulture professional villages, and 17 cocoon-producing towns.��72 professional cooperatives (family farms). It is reported that in 2021, the county’s sericulture production produced 87,457 boxes of silkworm seeds and 5,315 tons of fresh cocoons. The income of silkworm farmers from selling cocoons has reached 262 million yuan.