Gaoxian County, Sichuan: A mulberry leaf creates a wealth-making industry
In mid-summer in July, in Gao County, located at the northern foot of Wumeng Mountain, a continuous mulberry garden undulates with the wind. Silkworm farmers shuttle among them to pick fresh mulberry leaves. In the large and small silkworm houses, there is the sound of mulberry leaves being nibbled. Everlasting…
Gao County has a long history of mulberry planting and sericulture, and is known as the “Hometown of Chinese Sericulture”. The county has 231,000 acres of mulberry gardens and nearly 100,000 sericulture farmers. It is one of the five “200,000 acres” key cultivation areas in Sichuan Province. It is one of the “strong sericulture counties” and the second largest mulberry and silkworm breeding base in the province. In recent years, in accordance with the development positioning of “building a strong modern agricultural county with high quality“, the county has promoted the quality and efficiency of the sericulture industry by introducing improved varieties and extending the industrial chain, so that Traditional sericulture has taken on new vitality. In 2020, the county achieved a comprehensive output value of sericulture agriculture of 1.42 billion yuan and a cocoonsilk comprehensive output value of 3.65 billion yuan. A green leaf continues to innovate, develop and extend here, becoming a resounding “business card” of the local industry.
The new dual-use fruit and leaf mulberry tree increases efficiency
“The leaves of the mulberry trees here are used to feed silkworms and the fruit is used to make wine. Even the mulberry branches are also a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, and they are full of treasures.” In Chennong Village, Laifu Town, Gao County, Wang Dayong, secretary of the party branch of the village Looking at the lush mulberry gardens all over the mountains and plains, he happily recounted to us the advantages of growing mulberries.
Chenyong Village has always had a tradition of planting mulberry and raising silkworms. In the early years, the cocoon and silk market was in a downturn, and the enthusiasm of silkworm farmers in raising silkworms was frustrated. In order to ensure the healthy, sustainable and stable development of the sericulture industry, the village relied on the original sericulture foundation to develop mulberries with both fruit and leaves. In 2015, the first batch of mulberry demonstration gardens was built. After more than three years of development, the mulberry planting area in the village has reached more than 2,250 acres.
Every April, the mulberries in Chenyong Village reach their maturity stage. Black or crimson mulberries are covered with branches. Tourists in groups carrying baskets shuttle among them to enjoy picking. Traditional mulberry trees produce mulberry fruits that taste sour, but mulberry fruits are plump and sweet. In accordance with the development idea of ”turning production areas into scenic spots, and pastoral areas into parks”, through planned planting, it has become a popular place for rural picking tours and study tours. Every year, it attracts a large number of tourists and groups to the village to experience the fun of picking. The villagers worked as tour guides and ran farmhouses on the spot, and their lives were happy and sweet.
In view of the short shelf life and perishability of mulberry fruit, the village also introduced a mulberry processing plant to further process the fresh fruit. The mulberries picked by the villagers are purchased by the manufacturers and processed into dried mulberries and mulberry wine in a timely manner. These products are sold to all parts of the country through e-commerce logistics.
Through the improvement of mulberry tree varieties, the village has solved the dilemma of industrial development and transformed from traditional sericulture to an industrial system integrating sightseeing and picking, research experience, and deep processing. While raising sericulture, the sericulture farmers can also use mulberries. Obtain secondary income and maximize the value of mulberry trees.
Silkworm seeds are upgraded to produce “real money”
Every time it is the cocoon purchasing period, baskets of golden “golden cocoons” are always particularly eye-catching. The bright golden color adds a bright color to the development of the cocoon and silk industry in the county.
“‘Golden Cocoon’ is a new colored silkworm species introduced to the county in recent years. Compared with traditional white cocoons, it has the advantages of strong disease resistance, high yield, stronger antibacterial ability, and better toughness. It produces The cocoons are naturally golden yellow, do not require post-chemical dyeing after reeling, and the market price is much higher than ordinary white cocoons.” said the relevant person in charge of Sichuan New Silk Road Cocoon Silk Co., Ltd. “We distributed a total of 2,750 sheets of ‘Golden Cocoon’ silkworm seeds in the first quarter of this year. The output is expected to reach 110,000 kilograms with an output value of more than 5.9 million yuan.”
In recent years, in response to the market’s diversified demand for high-quality raw silk, the county has introduced new silkworm breeds with higher yields and better economic benefits, with the concept of “enterprise + The order model of “cooperatives + farmers” is driven by leading companies in the county to carry out multi-point promotion and trial breeding in the core sericulture demonstration areas in the county, forming a unique sericulture industry style and making the traditional sericulture industry more “quality” and “Specialization” promotes agricultural efficiency and farmers’ income.
Technological innovationRaising silkworms saves time and effort
In the modern large-scale silkworm breeding factory in Renmin Village, Jiale Town, Zhou Song, the village’s silkworm expert, is shuttling between the automated lifting silkworm tables to feed the silkworms mulberry leaves. In about a week, these silkworms will be in the weeds. cocoon.
“If you get one season of silkworms, you can get half a year’s worth of food.” In terms of breeding, the county has changed the traditional breeding methods and injected more “high technology”. A series of new technologies and machines such as orbital lifting silkworm tables and automatic rotating silkworms have subverted people’s understanding of traditional silkworm raising. “In the past, raising silkworms required the whole family to do the work, but now with these ‘high technologies’, except for picking mulberry leaves, which is a bit tiring, everything else has become a lot easier.” Zhou Song said with emotion.
In recent years, the local government has explored and established a “five new” linkage mechanism of “promoting new varieties, integrating new technologies, exploring new models, applying new machines and implementing new mechanisms” to build and improve new products.��There are 13,000 acres of high-quality mulberry gardens, 28 small silkworm co-breeding rooms, 10 co-breeding factories, 149 sericulture greenhouses, 5 modern large-scale silkworm breeding factories, and the introduction of the second-generation new silkworm platform from the Provincial Sericulture Machinery Research Institute 116 sets, effectively promoting the high-quality development of the sericulture industry.
In addition, through cooperation with scientific research institutes, the “factory” sericulture model of People’s Village has also achieved success. The village collective company takes over the sericulture factory and manages the mulberry garden, and guides the masses to use land or development funds to invest in shares and obtain dividends to obtain income, forming a model of “increasing the price of cocoons, increasing interplanting, increasing the value of branches and leaves, increasing the efficiency of work, and increasing income through dividends”. New pattern. In 2020, Renmin Village of Jiale Town achieved an income of 26 million yuan from cocoon payments, a village collective economic income of 1.35 million yuan, and a per capita disposable income of rural residents of 25,000 yuan. The sericulture industry with “small investment, quick results, and high returns” has made villagers more interested in The money bag is getting bigger and bigger.
The whole-chain structure of the sericulture industry is revitalized
Right now, it is the cocoon harvest season. In the production workshop of Sichuan New Silk Road Cocoon Silk Co., Ltd. in Qingfu Town, Gao County, machines are roaring and workers are busy processing the delivered cocoons into high-quality cocoon silk.
As a leading enterprise leading modern sericulture in Gaoxian County, this enterprise actively promotes transformation and development. It has now built an intelligent silkworm seed manufacturing greening workshop and intelligent silk reeling. Production lines, cocoon silk testing centers and supporting sewage treatment facilities, etc., are focusing on accelerating the construction of a new integrated silk industry system of mulberry silkworms, cocoon silk, silk weaving, printing and dyeing, and clothing. Form a silkindustrial cluster. The company now owns the famous trademark “KAIHUA” in Sichuan Province and has successfully registered the trademarks “Sichuan Silk” and “Wumengxue”. The cocoon silk produced is not only popular domestically, but also exported overseas. Leading the cocoon and silk industry in Gaoxian County to a new height.
At the same time, in order to further develop the sericulture industry, strengthen the “hematopoietic” function, and promote the effective connection between poverty alleviation and rural revitalization, the county is also actively exploring the extension of the sericulture industry chain and continuing to make a “article” on sericulture.
“Gaoxian County has currently developed sericulture-derived industries such as mulberry edible fungi and mulberry healthy drinks. In the future, it will also introduce projects such as mulberry fiber production, biomass fuel, and mulberry recombinant wood production lines to form ancillary products to sericulture. The development trend of the whole chain.” The relevant person in charge of the Gao County Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau said that the county is actively expanding the application fields of mulberry and silkworms, increasing the development of sericulture derivative products, focusing on sericulture food, mulberry tea beverages, silk Protein cosmetics and other major health biotech products further improve the comprehensive benefits of sericulture.
Not only that, the county also uses the Baili Tea and Mulberry Tourism Industry Corridor and the Gaozhou Songhai Economic Circle as carriers to connect scenic spots along the “Wuchi Road” of the Southern Silk Road within the county, and actively develop mulberry picking, sericulture Nongsang leisure and health tourism with the theme of culture and creative landscape.
In Renmin Village of Jiale Town, relying on the sericulture culture, not only the “Tiancan Lake” scenic spot and the sericulture folk hotel were built, but also the sericulture cultural square and the “Silk Road Style Culture Street” were built, and various cultural products with sericulture as the carrier were built. There is a dazzling array of innovative products, and through the integration of agriculture, culture and tourism, it drives surrounding villagers to become rich and increase their income, achieving sustainable development.
Mulberries bear fruit, leaves raise silkworms, silkworms spin cocoons, cocoons draw silk, and silk weaves brocade. From a leaf to a silk to a whole industrial chain, the sericulture industry in Gaoxian County is continuously developing and growing towards a new pattern of “one-stop production, processing and marketing, integration of agriculture, industry and trade”, injecting new resources into the overall revitalization of the countryside and the high-quality development of the county economy. Strong power.
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