“I want one” “This time I get half a piece more, I want one and a half”… At the turn of spring and summer, all things grow, silkworms are planted in Lang Village, Gupeng Town, Xincheng County, Guangxi At the breeding demonstration base, farmers came from nearby villages with baskets, buckets, cartons, storage boxes and other “artifacts” for storing silkworms, and queued up to receive the four-year-old silkworm seedlings. They talked and laughed, and shared their “sericulture secrets” .
“Gupeng Town is a mountainous area in Dashi. In the past, when silkworms were not raised, I could not even eat enough porridge. Now I raise four-instar silkworms. If I raise them well, I can increase my income by 5,000 yuan in a month.” Former Tangtai Village Huang Yingguang, secretary of the village committee, said.
“The fourth-instar silkworms are big and grow quickly. They emerge from their cocoons in half a month. I have already come to collect the second batch this month.” Lan Guilin, a villager in Nongfutun, Shanglang Village, said happily.
Located in Gupeng Town, Dashi Mountain District, there is less land and more people. In recent years, Xincheng County has seized the favorable opportunity of the country’s “Migration of Mulberry from East to West” and vigorously developed the mulberry industry in accordance with local conditions. Using the standardized silkworm breeding demonstration site in Shanglang Village as a carrier, Xincheng County has radiated and driven nearly 80 surrounding villages to plant and raise mulberry trees. Silkworms, and through strengthening cooperation with universities and colleges on silkworm breeding and technology promotion, a set of scientific and standardized sericulture models have been formed.
At the standardized sericulture demonstration site in Shanglang Village, Zhu Baojian, head of Guangxi Huizhi Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd., introduced that in 2019, the local government integrated the Guangdong-Guangxi poverty alleviation special funds and related group funds totaling 3.825 million yuan to support mulberry trees. The Silkworm Breeding Demonstration Base has been upgraded and transformed, and an innovative model has been launched in which “one to three-year-old silkworms are raised in the breeding base, and fourth-year-old silkworms are distributed to farmers for raising.” “The co-breeding of young silkworms in the base has greatly improved the survival rate of silkworms. Farmers generally raise the fourth-instar silkworms in the base to sell cocoons in 12-14 days, and the survival rate has also increased from 65% to 92%,” Zhu Baojian said. , “The market price of fourth-instar silkworms is 380 yuan/piece, and the government subsidy is 200 yuan/piece. Farmers only need to spend 180 yuan to purchase them.”
In 2021, the demonstration base began to promote fourth-instar silkworms, which are popular among farmers because of their good quality and high risk resistance. At present, the demonstration base raises nearly 1,500 pieces of fourth-instar silkworms at the same time, covering six towns and villages in Xincheng County, benefiting more than 3,000 farmers.
“The fourth-instar silkworm seedlings from Shanglang Silkworm House have the advantages of high survival rate, short breeding cycle, and affordable price. This year, my family plans to order 2 pieces of fourth-instar silkworms in each period. If each silkworm produces 80 to 120 kilograms of cocoons, Calculating the market price of 20 yuan per catty, my family can earn about 4,000 yuan in income from selling this batch of silkworms. Calculated by raising 12-13 batches a year, minus the cost, the annual net income exceeds 20,000 yuan.” Shanglang Village Wei Yuping, a villager in Beilaitun, happily calculated the accounts.
In order to facilitate scientific and standardized sericulture for farmers and create production technology experts around sericulture farmers, the base has built a “Shiyi Intelligent Sericulture Cloud Platform” and installed video cameras and temperature and humidity sensors in the sericulture rooms. Videos and data can be uploaded in real time to System backend; develop the “Shiyi Smart Sericulture” WeChat applet to publish production technology teaching videos, industry information, high-quality sericulture pesticide information, etc., so that sericulture farmers can get timely professional guidance and help without leaving home.
In view of the weak ability of silkworm farmers to withstand risks, the Xincheng County Government has purchased insurance for their fourth-instar silkworm farmers. From the first day of purchase to cocooning, if a production accident occurs, they can receive 350-700 yuan per policy. Yuan of compensation reduces the risk of farmers raising silkworms.
In order to extend the mulberry cocoon industry chain, Xincheng County introduced the Sanjiangkou (Xincheng) CocoonSilk Industrial Park with an investment of over 10 billion yuan and an output value of over 100 billion yuan. After the industrial chain project is completed and put into operation, it will consume 100,000 tons of cocoons annually, produce 15,000 tons of raw silk, 150 million meters of silk, and 75 million sets of finished silk products. , achieving an annual output value of over 10 billion yuan, providing 15,000 employment positions, and is expected to create employment for 150,000 people. At present, some of the project’s factories have been put into use. This project will make up for the shortcomings of Xincheng’s mulberry cocoon and silk industry and provide strong industrial project support and technical support, promote the integrated development of primary, secondary and tertiary industries, and push the county’s mulberry silk industry to a new level.
Currently, Xincheng County is implementing a sericulture industry revitalization project, building a sericulture industry demonstration base in batches and phases; increasing efforts to carry out sericulture production technology services, and strengthening guidance, training and supervision of small silkworm co-cultivation bases work; increase the promotion of fourth-instar silkworms, implement measures such as the construction of human silkworm separation demonstration villages, comprehensively improve the economic benefits of sericulture, commit to the development of the entire sericulture industry chain, and lay a solid foundation for rural revitalization.
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