Song County, Henan: A bumper harvest of silkworms and a rich mulberry farm turn “silver mountains” into “real gold”
The acquisition of the first crop of silkworm cocoons this year has entered its peak period. Recently, the Silkworm Service Center in Fanpo Town, Song County, Luoyang City, Henan Province was crowded with people. Tricycles and small trucks filled with cocoons were parked throughout the cocoon collection station. The staff were busy doing random inspections, grading inspections, pricing, weighing, registration, Settlement… The acquired silkworm cocoons piled up into silvery “little snow mountains”.
Ma Xianfeng, a villager in Changling Village, Fanpo Town, said: “I raised three silkworms this year and produced more than 140 kilograms of cocoons. I sold a total of more than 7,000 yuan today. I feel at ease with the money.”
On the same day, there were many large silkworm farmers at the acquisition site. Guo Xiangru, a large silkworm farmer in Wangcheng Village, Fanpo Town, was one of them. His silkworm cocoons were sold at a price of 56 yuan per kilogram. “I planted 14 acres this year. In the mulberry tree, I raised 5 silkworms this season. The first batch produced more than 230 kilograms of cocoons, which were sold for more than 10,000 yuan. I plan to raise 5 batches of silkworms this year, and the income is expected to be 50,000 to 60,000 yuan.”
Walking into the cocoon collection site of Zhengda Xin Laihai Agricultural Comprehensive Industrial Park in Daping Township, you can see the spacious space, suitable temperature, and good ventilation environment. Rows of plump and white silk cocoons are neatly arranged, and workers are busy picking them. cocoon. Outside the base, people delivering cocoons came in droves in trucks, filled with joy of harvest.
Liu Anxin, the person in charge of cocoon purchasing at Luoyang Qianmo Sangtian Agricultural Tourism Technology Co., Ltd., is grading pricing for silkworm cocoons. According to him, this year’s cocoon purchasing price ranges from 56 yuan to 57 yuan per kilogram according to grade. The county’s first scale About 12,600 kilograms of silkworm cocoons were received in one day.
As one of the ecological conservation counties in Luoyang City, the starting point of the Eastern Silk Road, Song County has a mild climate, sufficient sunlight, and abundant rainfall, providing excellent soil and environment for planting mulberry and raising silkworms. Silkworm breeding and cocoon production, and silk reeling processing have become a new engine to promote the growth of local agricultural economy.
The development of the industry cannot be separated from the support of policies. In recent years, Song County has insisted on attracting investment and funding talents, optimizing the business environment, promulgating relevant policies, and introducing Luoyang Qianmo Sangtian Agricultural Tourism Technology Co., Ltd. to demonstrate and drive, and jointly established Mulberry and sericulture bases have been established in Daping, Fanpo and Zhifang areas, with a total area of 23,000 acres, forming an interest linkage mechanism of “company + cooperative + farmers”, driving more than 5,000 households to become rich and increase income. This mechanism not only guarantees the amount of cocoons purchased by cocoon-using companies, but also purchases cocoons from contracted silkworm farmers at a price of 5 yuan per kilogram higher than the market price, and 400 yuan per mu for newly planted mulberry trees. Subsidies further mobilized farmers’ enthusiasm for planting mulberry and raising silkworms.
According to statistics, a total of 2,500 silkworm seeds were distributed in Song County this year, with an average output of 42 kilograms per leaf, a total of 105,000 kilograms of cocoons, and an output value of 5,932,500 yuan. The average income of spring silkworm breeding farmers was 3,500 yuan. Nowadays, green mulberry dyes the mountains, silver cocoons pave the road to wealth, and piles of snow-white cocoons have turned into “real gold” and become the “sweet pastry” for the masses to get rich.
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