Dao County: Silkworms spin out “wealth silk” and the first batch of silkworm cocoons welcomes a “good start”
Right now, it is the time for the first batch of silkworm cocoons to be collected and sold this year, and the silkworm farmers in Dao County are getting off to a good start with a bumper harvest of silkworm cocoons. The benchmark purchasing price reached 30 yuan per catty, an increase of 2 yuan per catty compared with last year’s price. Such a good market situation made local farmers extremely happy.
In the silkworm room of the Yingshan Sericulture Cooperative in Jiangjialing Village, Dao County, the white silkworm cocoons on the folded nets and square clusters are as big as pigeon eggs and as snowy as frost. It is very gratifying. The silkworm farmers are skillfully Busy collecting cocoons, selecting, and packing them into baskets. Buyers were inspecting, pricing, weighing, invoicing, and loading trucks on the sidelines, making the scene a lively and busy scene. Seeing the white silkworm cocoons turned into “tickets” for getting rich, the silkworm farmers’ faces beamed with joy.
“This year’s first batch of spring silkworms, I raised a total of 20 silkworm seeds, producing about one ton of cocoons. The price this year is quite good, selling for 30 yuan per catty, it can be sold for more than 60,000 yuan.” Fairy Feet He Bingqian, the person in charge of Zhenyingshan Sericulture Base, said happily.
Seeing that the cocoons he raised were sold at a good price, He Bingqian, the head of the cooperative, was so happy that he couldn’t open his mouth from ear to ear. According to him, about 10 batches of mulberry silkworms can be cultivated locally every year. In 2016, he took a fancy to the “short, flat and large” advantages of the mulberry silkworm industry and began to try to grow mulberry and raise silkworms. After years of continuous efforts, the scale has continued to expand. From 2 to 3 mulberry trees per batch at the beginning, to 20 mulberry trees per batch now, the planting of mulberry trees has reached more than 100 acres, which can bring him more than 600,000 yuan in income every year.
“The cost is calculated based on each piece of silkworm seed. It costs about 60 yuan to sterilize the silkworm seed. If you pick the mulberry leaves yourself, if you raise them, (one) silkworm cocoon weighs 100 kilograms. According to the current price, it costs 30 yuan a piece. You can get 3,000 yuan per pound,” said He Bingqian, the person in charge of the Yingshan Sericulture Base in Xianzijiao Town.
Don’t forget your neighbors when you get rich. Under the leadership of He Bingqian, surrounding villagers have gradually joined the industry of growing mulberry and raising sericulture. Whenever a villager comes to inquire about sericulture techniques, He Bingqian will patiently explain and teach them. At the same time, he will also share sales channels with scattered silkworm farmers to solve their sales problems and help villagers increase their income.
“I started raising them in 2017, and it has been six years this year. I raise 4 to 5 in each batch, and I can earn more than 100,000 yuan a year.” Hu Shengfeng, a sericulture farmer in Xianzijiao Town, said.
In recent years, Dao County has actively promoted the scientific, standardized and large-scale development of the silkworm industry, which has greatly improved the output and quality of silkworm cocoons. At present, the county has developed more than 1,300 acres of mulberry trees and 36 operating entities. The total output of the first batch of silkworm cocoons this year is expected to reach 26,000 kilograms, with a total output value of about 780,000 yuan.
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