It is the time to buy silkworm cocoons in late autumn. Recently, the last batch of late autumn golden silkworm cocoons harvested at the Silkworm Silkworm Base in Dongchi Village, Shimen Town, Tongxiang City. When I walked into the greenhouse at the base, I saw golden cocoons everywhere, and the faces of the silkworm farmers picking the cocoons were full of joyful smiles.
“During the silkworm breeding period in late autumn this year, the temperature was suitable, silkworm diseases were generally less, the mulberry trees in the mulberry garden were growing well, and there were sufficient silkworm leaves, so this time The late autumn cocoons of the stubble have high yields and thick silkworm layers, which are good in terms of yield and quality.” According to Zhu Yiming, deputy secretary of the Dongchi Village Party Committee, this year, Dongchi Village has distributed more than 400 late autumn silkworm seeds and has collected 19 tons of silkworm cocoons. The average purchase price of silkworm cocoons in late autumn was 42 yuan per kilogram, an increase of 5% compared with the same period last year.
The increase in purchase price undoubtedly makes silkworm farmers happy.
“My late autumn cocoons are very well made, big and thick. The purchase price has also increased this year, and the harvest is much better than last year.” Zhong Xuelun, a farmer from Tangxiang Group in Dongchi Village who was delivering cocoons to the cocoon station, could not hide her inner joy. “Since the village established a co-breeding room for small silkworms, it has saved us a lot of worry. When raising large silkworms, the village will contact us Experts will come to provide technical guidance, and I plan to apply for two more silkworm seeds next year, because I believe that with the development and progress of agricultural technology, sericulture will definitely bring more considerable income.”
Tongxiang is the main sericulture production area in Zhejiang Province. Dongchi Village is also the province’s largest small silkworm co-breeding base and the Ministry of Commerce’s large-scale intensive high-quality cocoon demonstration base. A unique income-increasing project in Chicun.
Since 2019, under the leadership of government departments, the Dongchi Village Sericulture Base has launched a group business model of “sericulture leading enterprises + cooperatives + base farmers”. Zhejiang Huafeng Silk Industry Co., Ltd. and Dongchi Sericulture Cooperative took the lead to implement the optimization and transformation of mulberry gardens through the “order sericulture group management” model and the construction of the entire sericulture industry chain, while integrating the intelligence of small silkworms and the labor saving of large silkworms. New sericulture technologies such as chemical breeding, multi-batch breeding of silkworms throughout the year, and hybrid mulberry and herbal breeding of silkworms have affected 3,379 farmers in neighboring villages, covering an area of 8,514 acres of mulberry fields, helping sericulture farmers increase their income.
“We hope that through the ‘Sericulture Group’, we can create a large-scale and intensive high-quality cocoon production demonstration base, and effectively empower the people while continuously promoting the high-quality development of the sericulture industry. It can revitalize rural areas and make farmers’ pockets richer,” said Zhu Yiming.
Now that we have entered the autumn and winter mulberry garden management stage, Dongchi Village currently has 1,680 acres of fine mulberry gardens. Next, the Dongchi Village Silkworm Origin Sericulture Base will be cleaned Gardening and pruning and other work, and at the same time do a good job in comprehensive prevention and control of overwintering diseases and insect pests in mulberry orchards, so as to reduce the base of overwintering diseases and insect pests as much as possible. In addition, the greenhouses at the base will be comprehensively cleaned and disinfected to lay the foundation for a bumper harvest of silkworms next spring.
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