Hunan Mulberry Planting: Green mulberries and silver cocoons pave the way to prosperity, and deep mountain springs help revitalize
“You didn’t spray perfume or mosquito repellent on your body, right?” Before entering the silkworm room, Xiang Linzhi repeatedly confirmed with the reporter and patiently told him to step on the lime powder for disinfection. In Maluo Village, Shangdong Street Township, Sangzhi County, Hunan Province, “famous silkworm farmer” Xiang Linzhi has long regarded the “silkworm babies” as his “treasures” and takes good care of them.
Walking quietly into the silkworm breeding room, Xiang Linzhi squatted down to observe carefully, using chopsticks to stir the mulberry leaves evenly from time to time.
“Little silkworms are weak and must be fed very strictly.” Xiang Linzhi said that when she first started raising silkworms, she didn’t even dare to touch silkworms. After some study and research, she has now slowly learned the ropes.
In 2017, Xiang returned to Linzhi to establish a professional sericulture cooperative and led the villagers to plant mulberry trees. “Sangzhi County has always had a tradition of planting mulberry and raising sericulture. In addition, the ecological environment in our hometown is getting better and better, so it is very suitable for the development of the mulberry sericulture industry.” She said.
Xiang Linzhi not only rented more than 500 acres of land to grow mulberry trees, but also led local people to plant mulberry trees and raise silkworms. The cooperative helps villagers sell silkworm cocoons.
Walking down the mountain from the silkworm house, passing by a large mulberry forest, you come to the studio where silk quilts are made. Several peasant women are working together to spread the silk cotton bags evenly. Today, the cooperative has transformed into the production and sale of silk quilts, attracting some local left-behind women to work.
“Only with good mountains, good water and good air can we grow good mulberry leaves, raise good silkworms and produce good silk.” Liu Zhihua, an employee, skillfully pulled the soft silk wadding and said that high-quality silk has strong flexibility. , it will not break even if it is pulled hard.
During the off-season, Liu Zhihua came to the studio to make quilts, earning 80 yuan a day. “Now I can also have a silk quilt covering my home!” she said.
In 2020, the cooperative’s silk quilt sales reached more than 4 million yuan. Xiang Linzhi said that the whole body of the mulberry tree is “treasure”, and the mulberry leaves, mulberry bark, mulberry fruits, etc. all have high economic added value. In the future, she plans to lead the villagers to develop the deep processing of the mulberry silkworm industry.
Shangdongjie Township is located in the Lishui River Basin. The sweet mountain spring water flows gurglingly, nourishing the dense jungles in the mountains, irrigating the soil and water, and also bringing new channels for local people to get rich.
At Hunan Lishui Nanyuan Technology Co., Ltd. in Shuangxi Village, bottles of original ecological mountain spring water are shipped from here and sold throughout the country.
In the workshop, filtration and disinfection, bottle blowing, filling, testing… the staff on the production line are busy in an orderly manner. “We chose to build the factory and bottle it in the water source area to retain more of the beneficial ingredients and minerals in the natural mountain spring water.” Yang Taitian, general manager of the company, said that the company now produces 300,000 tons of mountain spring water annually, and its products include barrels and bottles. Mountain spring water and tea, mother and baby mountain spring water and other types.
The water plant has adapted measures to local conditions to build employment poverty alleviation workshops to provide long-term and stable jobs for local villagers. Four years ago, Tang Xiaoyun quit his job in other places and returned to his hometown to become a light inspector at a water plant. “The company paid us to send us out to receive quality inspection training. After passing the exam, I officially started working.” Tang Xiaoyun said that in the past, he went out to work because he could not make money in his hometown, but now his hometown has its own industry, “Making money and taking care of the family.” Correct.”
“As the saying goes, ‘we rely on mountains to eat mountains, and we rely on water to drink water’. We must develop and utilize it, and we must also take good care of it.” Yang Taitian said that in order to protect the environment of water sources, water plants strictly control the treatment process and use reservoirs to store water. and other methods to divert spring water into the factory.
“Mountain spring water tastes sweet, and the taste of wealth it brings is even sweeter to people’s hearts.” Standing in front of the factory with steep mountains at the back, Yang Taitian sighed: Only by making good use of ecological advantages can we nourish the people. natural resources and become a source of wealth that nourishes the countryside.
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