Bin County, Harbin City creates a high-quality silkworm cocoon green belt at 45° north latitude

July is the season for silkworm farmers in Bingcheng to go to the mountains. In the past few days, more than 130 silkworm farmers from the Golden Tussah Silkworm Breeding Cooperative in Bin County, Harbin City have visited Jiulong Mountain again.

Unlike the south where you can raise mulberry silkworms at home, the tussah silkworms in the northeast must be raised in the mountains. Therefore, from midsummer July to early autumn September, the hottest days in Bingcheng, silkworm farmers are busy in the mountains. Hard work brings a happy life. At the same time, Bingcheng’s sericulture industry also relies on the hands-on work of sericulture farmers to gradually develop and grow, rejuvenating the road to rural revitalization.

From state-owned breeding farms to sericulture cooperatives

“This year, our cooperative has raised 8,000 acres of tussah silkworms.” On Jiulong Mountain, Wu Hongyi, chairman of the cooperative, said with sparkling eyes: “The breeding area is expanding year by year, and more and more farmers have become members. Sericulture has great potential.”

Wu Hongyi is from Datong Village, Binzhou Town. This small mountain village has a long history of sericulture. In the early years, the Jiulongshan Tussah Silkworm Breeding Farm was located near the village. Driven by the employees of the silkworm factory, the villagers gradually learned how to raise silkworms. Around 2000, under the impact of the market economy, the Jiulongshan Tussah Breeding Farm, with its outdated production and business model, gradually went downhill.

I know how to raise silkworms, but I love silkworms even more. In 2012, Wu Hongyi, who worked as a sericulture breeder at the breeding farm, could not sit still. He took the lead in establishing the Binxian Golden Tussah Silkworm Breeding Professional Cooperative, contracted Jiulong Mountain, and started the road of cooperative sericulture.

The whole body of the tussah silkworm is full of treasures. The silk can be used to make textiles, the silkworm chrysalis can be made into delicacies, and the male moth can also be brewed into wine, which has medicinal value. Wu Hongyi said that in recent years, the market demand for tussah silkworms has increased year by year, and there is a tendency that supply exceeds demand. Every September, after the silkworm cocoons come down from the mountain, they are always snapped up by foreign merchants.

From ordinary workers in old factories to leaders of modern cooperatives, Wu Hongyi led the villagers to create a new path. Over the past nine years, the number of cooperative members has gradually grown to more than 130 households, and the average annual income of members has reached more than 30,000 yuan. Every July, members hold groups and go up the mountain. Binxian Golden Tussah Silkworm Breeding Professional Cooperative has become the largest sericulture cooperative in Harbin.

Holding a group of children and going up the mountain, every silkworm farmer has a pair of “iron feet”

“I go up the mountain in the morning and go down the mountain at noon. After lunch, I go up the mountain again and go down the mountain after dark. Two round trips a day are 20 miles.” Liu Chunhong, a cooperative silkworm farmer, told reporters. Every silkworm farmer has a pair of “iron feet”, which is the basic skill of a silkworm farmer. Walking on a rugged mountain road, you can’t say that you are walking on flat ground, at least you won’t be out of breath, let alone stop to rest.

Liu Chunhong introduced that tussah silkworms mate and lay eggs in June every year. In early July, silkworm farmers will move the silkworm eggs from the low-temperature warehouse to the mountains. After the silkworms hatch out of their shells, they will grow up little by little by eating eucalyptus leaves, and finally spin silk and form cocoons in September. In the process of raising silkworms in the mountains, the biggest “natural enemies” of silkworms are the birds in the mountains and forests. “The early bird catches the worm, but this sentence is what makes silkworm farmers tremble the most.” From July to September, silkworm farmers must go up the mountain to chase the birds every day at dawn to protect their silkworm babies and prevent They become a meal in the belly of a small bird.

At the same time, the appetite of silkworm babies is also the focus of silkworm farmers’ attention. As they grow, a group of silkworm babies can eat all the leaves of an oak tree in about 10 days. Before this, silkworm farmers had to manually transfer hundreds of silkworm babies that were full of trees to other uneaten oak trees in a timely manner. You can imagine the workload.

“Others only see the bulging pockets of silkworm farmers, but they don’t know how much sweat and hard work they put in behind the scenes.” Liu Chunhong said that raising silkworms is definitely hard work, but every September, they see the sweat in exchange for silkworms. When silk is spun into cocoons, the joy of harvest in the hearts of silkworm farmers is sweeter than honey.

Create a high-quality silkworm cocoon green belt at 45° north latitude to help rural revitalization

“The purchase price of silkworm cocoons has increased from 5 yuan/catty at the beginning to 17-20 yuan/catty now, and the income has increased a lot.” Wu Hongyi said that nowadays, silkworm farmers are getting richer and better, and they have achieved Well-off.

Last year, Heilongjiang Province issued the “Key Points of the Province’s Silkworm and Apiculture Work in 2020”, which proposed: “Creating a high-quality silkworm cocoon green belt at 45° north latitude will contribute to the realization of green development, improvement of quality and efficiency, and increase of farmers’ income. Provide strong support for rural revitalization.” This makes “Ice City silkworm farmers” like Wu Hongyi feel strong and full of confidence in future development.

“With the strong support of the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the new variety – Longcan No. 3 strain is becoming more and more stable and mature, and its disease resistance is getting stronger and stronger. This is a new silkworm species cultivated by Bingcheng silkworm farmers themselves. Our pride.” Wu Hongyi said that the cooperative is planning to raise free range economic animals such as sika deer, roe deer, and wandering chickens under the oak forest to improve the economic benefits per unit area of forest land; at the same time, it will introduce silk extraction and processing equipment to broaden the industrial chain.

“Our cooperative is confident that our Bingcheng silkworms and silkworm products will be sold across the country and the world.” When talking about the future, “Bingcheng silkworm farmer” Wu Hongyi is full of confidence.

AAA

Disclaimer:

�Disclaimer: Some of the texts, pictures, audios, and videos of some articles published on this site come from the Internet and do not represent the views of this site. The copyrights belong to the original authors. If you find that the information reproduced on this website infringes upon your rights and interests, please contact us and we will change or delete it as soon as possible.