Lezhi, Sichuan: Green foundation to boost the iterative upgrading of the silkworm industry

Endless mulberry orchards, and mulberry family farms of different sizes are located next to each other… Recently, our reporter met with people who participated in the media tour of “Building a High-quality Ecosystem Together? Drawing a Blueprint for the Urban Area” Colleagues from Chengde, Meizi and other places visited the Modern Sericulture Industrial Park in Lezhi County, Ziyang City, and learned about how the local area promotes the iterative upgrading of the sericulture industry with a green foundation.

Seeking transformation and development to promote industrial upgrading

The sericulture production in Lezhi County has a long history of 1,500 years and is the characteristic leading industry of the county economy. However, with the development of the economy and society, the shortcomings of traditional sericulture in “each group” have become more and more obvious, such as backward technology and difficulty in scaling up. Therefore, the local government and relevant departments began to plan to build a new type of modern sericulture industrial park to allow manual labor. Transformation and development towards mechanization and intelligentization will promote the iterative upgrading of this traditional industry.

The core area of the completed Lezhi County Modern Sericulture Industrial Park is located in Dongshan Town, with 10,000 acres of mulberry gardens. The industrial park has established a “park + leading enterprise + cooperative (family farm) + farmer” model, and introduced four enterprises including Hongqi Silk Factory and Silk Road to settle in the park. Models such as “large parks + small owners” and “rent back and contract out” have driven the development of new business entities such as sericulture family farms, college student entrepreneurs, and farmhouses.

“We adopt new technologies such as mechanized and intelligent breeding, soil testing and formula fertilization, green prevention and control of pests and diseases, and return of silkworm excrement compost to the fields, which can reduce the use of simple chemical fertilizers and pesticides by 30%, achieving green, organic, and ecological, Focusing on sustainable development.” The person in charge of the Modern Sericulture Industrial Park said that mechanization and intelligent breeding have brought about reductions in labor costs and increases in profits. “It used to require 50 workers to raise 300 silkworms. Nowadays, through professional mechanized equipment, , only 5 people are needed to complete it.”

Digging deeply into sericulture culture to accelerate the integration of agriculture and tourism

“The birds are singing among the mulberry leaves, and the green strips are soft again.” The unique geographical conditions have created Lezhi County’s patchwork and unique Songhai landscape, and also laid a good foundation for the integrated development of local agriculture and tourism.

“The foundation is good, but planning must keep up.” The person in charge of the Modern Sericulture Industrial Park said that in conjunction with the “China Sangdu” construction plan in Lezhi County, the industrial park uses the construction of “Sanghai Mulberry Fields” as the carrier, and in accordance with The overall idea of ”establishing mulberry as an industry and diversifying development” builds a development pattern of “one town, three districts and one ring”, and connects the smart sericulture demonstration area, resource development functional area, sericulture, agriculture and tourism integrated development through the “sericulture theme park tour road” District, Dongshan Sericulture Town, 4 industrial sectors, and vigorously build Sangtian Commune, Sanghai Corridor and other scenic spots.

Precisely because they are optimistic about the prospects for the integrated development of agriculture and tourism in Lezhi County, college student Deng Rutao and his wife resolutely returned to their hometown to start a business. They contracted a mulberry garden in the park, ran an ecological farm, vigorously developed a full mulberry feast, and also opened projects such as mulberry fruit picking, sericulture experience, and handmade silk quilt making. The annual revenue was considerable.

According to reports, in recent years, Lezhi County has built a China Sangdu Culture Exhibition Hall through in-depth exploration of sericulture culture, and held the “Hometown of Chinese Pastoral Poetry” Sangdu Themed Poetry Festival, China Sangdu National Short Novel Essay Competition, and Rural Tourism Activities such as the mulberry fruit picking experience tour and other activities are promoted, and projects such as the Mulberry Field Commune, Songhai Corridor, lake health care, Sangdu Songhai Theme Park, intangible cultural heritage display, and industrial heritage tourism are promoted, with an average annual reception of more than 200,000 tourists, achieving the goal of Income of more than 50 million yuan.

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