Huidong, Sichuan: The price of spring cocoons is very good, and the farmers are smiling
On the occasion of the spring cocoon harvest, mulberry farmers in Huidong County, Liangshan, Sichuan, had a “good start” in sericulture production and received the first bucket of “cocoon gold”.
At the silkworm cocoon purchase site in Xinjie Town, there is an endless stream of mulberry farmers who come to sell cocoons. The piles of baskets of silkworm cocoons have formed a “small snow mountain”, becoming the most beautiful scenery in this summer.
“My family raised 4 silkworms this spring, which can be sold for about 13,000 yuan.” After weighing, accounting, random inspection, pricing, and settlement, the white cocoons turned into red bills, and the joy of harvest bloomed in the smiling faces of the mulberry farmers. superior.
The sericulture industry is an important pillar industry of agriculture in Huidong County. In recent years, in accordance with the requirements of “small farmers, large layout, high starting point, high standards”, the county has adopted the “company + farmer” development model to further expand the sericulture planting area, signed silkworm cocoon purchase contracts with enterprises, established an interest linkage mechanism, and focused on Solve the problems of difficulty, slowness and instability in increasing people’s income, and truly build the sericulture industry into a pillar industry that helps farmers increase their income and a “gas station” that consolidates and expands the results of poverty alleviation.
At the same time, during the spring silkworm breeding period, relevant functional departments formed a professional technical team to provide professional technical guidance at the homes of silkworm farmers and provide sericulture breeding services, which effectively enhanced the confidence of the majority of silkworm farmers in developing the sericulture industry. In 2022, the county will raise a total of 4,413 spring silkworms, and it is expected to purchase 3,800 tons of silkworm cocoons; the purchase price is 50 yuan per kilogram, an increase of 8 yuan per kilogram compared with last year.
The relevant person in charge of the county’s supply and marketing cooperative and the CocoonSilk Industry Development Co., Ltd. said that they will further increase the intercropping of grain and mulberry, the prevention and control of mulberry diseases and insect pests, disinfection and disease prevention, new Science and technology promotion and other efforts will be made to ensure the realization of the industrial revitalization goal of increasing the comprehensive benefits of mu mulberry and restorative development of sericulture.
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