Silkworms “crawl” into the high latitudes of northern Xinjiang to “weave” the industrial chain
On the edge of the Gurbantunggut Desert in northern Xinjiang, at the sericulture trial breeding base of the 184th Regiment of the 10th Division of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, some retired employees and housewives are busy picking mulberry trees and raising them in the mulberry tree garden. silkworm. Wang Ruyun, 65, has tasted the benefits of growing mulberry and raising silkworms this year. The first batch of silkworm cocoons has made a profit of more than 5,000 yuan (RMB, the same below).
“When I was a child, I only saw the Western Region Celestial Silkworm in martial arts novels. I thought it was magical at the time. Now my dream has come true, and I can make money from it even after retirement.” Recently, Wang Ruyun watched silkworms spin silk and make cocoons. Sharing happiness with reporters.
Sericulture is relatively common in southern China. In Xinjiang in the northwest, only Hotan, Kashgar and other places in the south with lower latitudes plant mulberry and raise silkworms. In northern Xinjiang, the average temperature throughout the year is relatively low, and local people rarely specialize in raising silkworms and reeling silk.
The 184th Regiment is located in a high latitude area with long and cold winters. In recent years, the group has successfully introduced Yulu fragrant pear, wolfberry, calcium fruit and other forestry economic crops for trial planting, and achieved remarkable results.
In 2020, Ma Xiaojun and Yang Wensheng, the founders of the group’s sericulture project, reached a cooperation to try to develop the sericulture industry by using one party’s land to plant mulberry trees and the other’s technology to raise sericulture.
In the autumn of that year, Ma Xiaojun and others made a special trip to Sichuan, Shandong, Jiangsu and other places to inspect sericulture projects, and purchased protein mulberry seedlings from Jiangsu and Shandong respectively for trial planting. This year, we purchased celestial silkworm seeds from Guangxi and signed a cocoon recycling contract.
“This year we will try to plant 5 acres of protein mulberry. One acre of mulberry can harvest more than 400 kilograms of finished cocoons in a year.” Ma Xiaojun said that selling at the current market price is expected to generate economic benefits of about 30,000 yuan per acre, which is better than planting Other crops are high.
Ma Xiaojun revealed that Guangxi cocoon recyclers have recently stated that if the mulberry planting area of the 184th Group reaches 2,000 acres, they will invest in the group to build a silk reeling factory.
Wang Ning, Secretary of the Second Company Party Branch of the League, said that planting mulberry trees and raising silkworms has at least three major benefits: first, improving the ecological environment by planting mulberry trees; second, using mulberry leaves to raise silkworms can solve the problem of income generation for employees, and it is labor-intensive It is not big and the risk is low; third, it has high economic value. Planting one acre of mulberry and raising silkworms can generate an annual net income of at least more than 20,000 yuan.
“Next year we plan to set up a sericulture cooperative, so that every household can participate in planting mulberry and raising sericulture. After it reaches a scale, we will do cocoon recycling, processing, silk reeling and other links, making it an industrial chain that will enrich the environment and enrich the people.” Talking about the future. plan, Wang Ning said.
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