Tongnan, Chongqing: Experts come to provide guidance to ensure a bumper harvest of silkworm cocoons

To develop the sericulture industry well, it is necessary to grasp the farming season and have the technology in place. Recently, reporters at Wanzhao Agriculture Co., Ltd. in Xiaodu Town saw that in the silkworm-raising greenhouse, each silkworm has entered the fifth instar stage and is growing well. Silkworm farmers are busy feeding mulberry leaves and controlling density according to technical requirements to ensure the normal development of silkworms.

The fifth instar is the first critical period for the growth of silkworms. During this period, if there are any mistakes in the feeding process, it will affect the subsequent development of the silkworms. On the same day, experts from the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee of Tongnan District, Chongqing went to various silkworm sheds to learn more about the breeding of silkworms. They also conducted detailed training on practical techniques such as mulberry tree species selection, silkworm species classification and breeding methods, and explained on-site how to prevent diseases and insect pests. knowledge to solve common problems encountered by farmers in the technology of planting mulberry and raising silkworms.

“Now is the feeding period for silkworms, and they are about to start cooping. What we have to do now is to prepare the cooping room. The temperature in the cooping room must be adjustable and controllable, and the humidity should be controlled at 70 to 70%. Seventy-five, the light and darkness are even.” An agricultural technology expert from the District Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee said that according to the current situation, the 600 silkworms raised are growing well and the density is appropriate. They are produced according to the standard operating procedures we usually guide. In silkworm rearing, about 40 tons of fresh cocoons can be harvested under normal circumstances.

It is reported that the sericulture base of Wanzhao Agriculture Co., Ltd. covers a total of 700 acres. It has changed from three batches a year to twelve batches in the past, realizing segmented and batched breeding, forming intensive and large-scale breeding.

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