Ups And Downs Of Silk City Silk Opera In Nanchong, Sichuan

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"Spring silkworm income is 11 thousand yuan, and the total income of planting mulberry and raising silkworms this year will exceed 50 thousand yuan." In July 10th, Wu Yongsong, a Huilong village of LITE-ON town in the southern part of Nanchong City, was happy to shut up after receiving the cocoon in spring.

On the same day, a group of raw silk exported to Japan, Korea and India was ready to be released in Nanchong Gaoping District Kyoto town Jiahe Textile Co., Ltd. "A year produces 180 tons of silk, more than 80% of which are exported abroad, and the silk produced by the company is in short supply in the market of Beijing, Tianjin and Shijiazhuang." Ren Jiawei, the chairman of the company, smiled narrowing.

　　 Chinese silk capital Nanchong has more than 3000 years of history of mulberry cultivation and silkworm breeding. It was awarded the title of "China silk capital" 5 years ago. It is the only region in the western region that has won the honor. As time went by, Nanchong kept up with the changes, and sang the ups and downs of the silk opera.

New varieties and new technologies urge Mulberry Cocoons to "double million"

"The sky is sampled and weaves all over the city." Nanchong silk spinning industry, which was once prosperous for a long time, began to decline in the 90s of last century. In 2006, the state implemented the strategy of "shifting the east to the west," and Nanchong firmly seized this opportunity and launched the "million project" of sericulture. That is, through the efforts of 3 to 5 years, the "double million" of Mulberry Cocoons can be realized, that is, the total amount of mulberry trees in the whole city will reach 1 million mu and 1 million cocoons will be produced.

According to Xiao Jinshu, director of the Institute of silkworm research, Nanchong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, in recent years, 24 pairs of new silkworm varieties have been bred and popularized in the city of, and three varieties of silkworm varieties have been updated. More than 700 varieties of mulberry germplasm have been preserved. It is the most abundant and most abundant mulberry gene pool in Western China. More than 10 new mulberry varieties have been bred, and the mulberry mulberry covers 60% of the total.

In view of the lack of rural areas The labor Farmers only plant the embarrassment of mulberry silkworm feeding, and the Nanchong scientific research department has vigorously promoted the new technology of saving time and labor, such as labor saving cocoon table and cardboard square, so as to improve the enthusiasm of the farmers to raise silkworm. Last year, Wang Juncong, a villager of Shen Gong Ya Village in Yixing Town, Xichong County, not only picked up the mulberry planting silkworm industry that had been abandoned for many years, but also expanded the scale of cultivation. One person planted mulberry and silkworm 19 mu, and sericulture more than 10, with an annual income of over 100 thousand yuan.

Due to the popularization and application of new varieties and technologies, the cocoon production reached 16 million kilograms last year, and the total income of sericulture industry reached 350 million yuan, becoming one of the important income increasing industries for farmers.