Shaanxi Wubao: Expand the size of the sericulture industry and promote rural revitalization and development

The mulberry trees are mulberry trees, and the celestial insects are silkworms. On the “Sandaoyuan” in Koujiayuan Town, Wubao County, Shaanxi Province, green mulberry trees bring coolness to people in front of and behind villagers’ houses and on the mountains and down the mountains. In farmers’ homes, under the careful care of “silkworm mothers” and “silkworm fathers”, the silkworm babies are growing vigorously and are about to spin silk and weave cocoons.

“These few days are the critical period for silkworms to spin cocoons. Don’t be careless for a moment. You have to feed them at least 3 to 4 times a day.” With 40 years of experience in raising silkworms, Wang Ronglian said while changing silkworms to mulberry leaves. , “Although these small silkworms are inconspicuous, they are a good project for increasing income and getting rich. The breeding time is short and the results are quick.”

Koujiayuan Town is located in the southeast of Wubao County. In the land of thousands of ravines, God has given people three relatively flat plateaus (Eastern Plateau, Middle Plateau and West Plateau), where Mujiayuan, Yangjiayuan, Chejiayuan, Lijiayuan and other villages. According to the elderly, the locals have a history of raising sericulture for more than 300 years. People have been raising sericulture for generations and making cocoons to get rich. Planting mulberry and raising sericulture has become an important means for locals to get rich. “Mulberry and jujube are very popular, and silk is sold in Shanxi and Henan.” During the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, there were records of silk here.

As the central base of the sericulture industry in Wubao County, Koujiayuan Town has more than 10,000 acres of mulberry gardens, more than 300 sericulture households, and more than 800 silkworms are raised annually, producing 15 tons of cocoons. In response to this traditional industry that enriches the people, 5 professional sericulture cooperatives and 1 sericulture association have been established in the town. Corresponding support policies have been introduced and the approach of “cooperative-driven, technical guidance, and decentralized breeding” has been implemented to develop this ancient but young industry. characteristic industries.

Wang Ronglian, 60 years old, is a major sericulture farmer in Chejiayuan Village. She has been learning sericulture since she was married to the Xinjiayuan group at the age of 20. She is a well-known “sericulture” expert. When the author saw her, she had just come back from picking mulberry leaves. Because she raised a lot of silkworms, she often drove a three-wheeled motorcycle to collect mulberry leaves from home. Wang Ronglian carried the bundled mulberry branches from the car. She didn’t have time to wipe the sweat from her forehead, so she carefully took care of her “silkworm babies.” The body of “silkworm baby” is white and fat, slightly smaller at the ends and larger in the middle, and has a round shape, which is very cute.

According to Wang Rongli, this year three “summer silkworms” were raised, and the cocoons were taken to the cooperative to process 25 kilograms of silk. Each kilogram of silk was sold for 500 yuan. These are “autumn silkworms” and are about to spin silk. “The benefits of sericulture are very impressive. All the silk I processed in the summer was sold out and I raised 3 more silk quilts.” Wang Ronglian said happily, “Nowadays, middle-aged and elderly people like to cover themselves with silk quilts. Especially when they meet someone getting married, they use it as a dowry. Once you get it, you will have three or four silk quilts, so you don’t have to worry about selling them.”

In Koujiayuan Town, there are many big silkworm farmers like Wang Rongli. With their hard-working hands, they played an exemplary role in the fight against poverty, leading registered poor households in the village to develop the sericulture industry, weaving a happy and well-off road and laying a solid foundation for rural revitalization.

In order to allow the sericulture industry to better play its role in driving people to get rich, Wubao County has renovated existing mulberry gardens and built new standardized mulberry gardens, hired city and county professional technicians to provide technical guidance to sericulture farmers, and provided sericulture farmers with a subsidy of 650 RMB per ticket. Yuan, encourage cooperatives to actively carry out a series of measures such as in-depth development of the sericulture industry, and continuously increase the number of farmers raising sericulture and the comprehensive utilization benefits of sericulture. It is estimated that by 2025, 20,000 acres of high-quality and high-yield mulberry gardens will be built in the county, with the annual number of silkworms raised reaching 5,000, and the output value of silkworm raising reaching 10.8 million yuan.

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