Pingchang, Sichuan: Planting mulberry and raising silkworms, weaving a new “silk” road to wealth
On May 17, the reporter walked into the mulberry leaf planting base of Shangguo Planting Family Farm, Yuanbai Community, Lingshan Town, Pingchang County, Sichuan Province. The waist-high mulberry branches were lush and growing happily. The continuous mulberry fields are verdant and green, like a green ocean, and farmers in groups of three or five are busy picking mulberry leaves in the fields.
“This mulberry tree base has a total of 200 acres, all of which belong to the excellent hybrid mulberry variety ‘Qiangsang No. 1’. They not only grow quickly, but also have thick and juicy leaves, which are a delicacy for silkworms.” Zhou Shangguo, the person in charge of the family farm, told reporters , in January 2022, he spent nearly 150,000 yuan to purchase 140,000 mulberry seedlings from Zhejiang. The mulberry trees are currently growing well. Although the planting time was short, he had already picked mulberry leaves and raised the first batch of silkworms, which he sold for nearly 4 Ten thousand yuan, at first glance the benefits are quite good.
Zhou Shangguo, who is in his 50s, has been working in Yuanbai Community. A few years ago, he discovered that planting mulberry and raising silkworms has a short production cycle, low investment and high efficiency. In addition, in recent years, few people have been raising sericulture in neighboring areas and even in Sichuan, and the market gap is large. In addition, the village has had traditional sericulture habits as early as the 1970s and 1980s. With his keen vision and insight, Zhou Shangguo made up his mind Plant mulberry and raise silkworms.
But sericulture is a technical job. If the technique is not good, the silkworms will die. How to learn excellent techniques? “Although I raised silkworms with my parents when I was a child, it was only a small taste and I was not able to ‘operate’ alone.” Zhou Shangguo said that in order to further learn technology and improve his skills, Zhou Shangguo carried his luggage to Tuxing Zhenhua, more than 20 kilometers away. Resident study in Shancun Sericulture Industrial Park. After a month of training and exploration, he quickly mastered the technology of sericulture due to his flexible mind.
Contracting land, purchasing mulberry seedlings, and building factories… After returning from school, Zhou Shangguo successively invested nearly 1 million yuan to open the Shangguo Breeding Family Farm in Yuanbai Community, Lingshan Town, Pingchang County, and started his sericulture business. , and gradually became a major sericulture farmer in the village.
Entering Zhou Shangguo’s silkworm room, he saw a huge steel frame factory building. There was a constant “rustling” sound in the room. The white and fat silkworm babies lying densely on the shelf were eating mulberry leaves. Maintenance manager Chen Deshuang Busy feeding fresh mulberry leaves to silkworms.
“My daily task is to feed, clean and disinfect silkworms.” Chen Deshuang told reporters that if you want to raise silkworms well and make a profit, you must pay attention to feeding the silkworm babies and controlling the temperature, humidity and interference from pests and diseases. , especially silkworms entering the fourth dormant period, their food intake increases and they need to seize the time to pick fresh mulberry leaves for feeding. Only in this way can silkworm cocoons achieve high yield, high purity, and goodquality.
“The market for silkworm cocoons is very good now, and we basically have no worries about sales.” Zhou Shangguo, who has tasted the benefits, said with deep emotion that silkworm cocoons can not only be sold online, but also the bosses of silk reeling factories in other areas often come to buy them, and sometimes even Make reservations in advance. Planting mulberry and raising silkworms can become one of the industries that ensures farmers’ income.
“I have raised 30 silkworms this season, and I expect to produce about 900 kilograms of cocoons, which can be sold for at least 50,000 yuan.” Zhou Shangguo said happily. He signed a contract with the Huashan Village Sericulture Industrial Park to purchase silkworm seeds for later stages of breeding. . According to his estimate, he will be able to grow six crops this year, and the profit will exceed 300,000 yuan.
A large amount of manpower is needed to maintain and manage silkworm houses and pick mulberry leaves from the ground, which can lead to employment and increase income for local people. In Zhou Shangguo’s family farm, four villagers work on the farm for a long time. In addition, he also hired more than 20 casual workers to carry out management and maintenance such as weeding and fertilizing the base during busy hours. Yang Zhenglian, who is in her 70s and has been lifted out of poverty, is one of them. She has worked on the farm for a long time and has improved her living conditions. “We can receive a salary of 2,400 yuan on time every month. We never dreamed that we could find such a good job at our doorstep at this age!” Yang Zhenglian told reporters happily.
“Next step, I plan to continue to expand the scale of breeding, strive to develop the entire silkworm industry chain, and achieve scientific and professional breeding.” When talking about the future, Zhou Shangguo is full of confidence. He hopes to make the sericulture industry bigger and stronger, and lead the villagers to grow mulberry and raise sericulture together to become rich together.
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