Taizhou: Rising Production Costs Have Led Local Sericultural Farmers To Change Their Jobs.

Recently, as gold continues to rise, there are raw silk. It is understood that domestic The price of cocoon raw silk has skyrocketed since the international financial crisis in 2008 and is now up to 300 thousand yuan / ton, the highest price in nearly 15 years. At present, the price of cocoon and silk is upside down by 20 thousand yuan, and the phenomenon of "flour is more expensive than bread" has been discovered in the whole silk industry chain. Despite all this, Taizhou's Silkworm farmers are not happy at all. The area of mulberry fields has been decreasing year by year, and many silkworm farmers have changed their jobs.

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"Although the price of silk has been rising in recent years, there are few species of mulberry sericulture in Taizhou nowadays." Chen Yaping, a staff member of Taizhou Agricultural Bureau, told reporters that in 1984, there were sericultural industries all over Taizhou. However, there were only three large areas of silkworms in Xianju, Tiantai and Lin Hai, and the sericulture industry was relatively small. Data show that at the beginning of 2000, there were more than 1.3 mu of mulberry garden in Taizhou, but by the beginning of this year, there were only more than 4800 acres left.

Reporters from Tiantai, Xianju and other places to buy cocoons local specialty sales center learned that this year silkworm households have reduced a lot. Tiantai County special local product sales center staff Zhang Caiping said, the original Tiantai county has thousands of households sericulture members, and now about 600 households are concentrated in the county street town. Zhang Caiping said that most young people choose to go out to work now. The local sericultural farmers had to rent workers and raise silkworms, the wages of workers were about 60-70 yuan per day, and other expenses for raising silkworms were also raised. Many sericultural farmers have switched to other economic crops.

Many farmers began to go out to work, and many farmers dug mulberry trees and replanted other cash crops. All along, Taizhou's sericulture industry is hard to form an industry. Sericulture is mostly in the terminal link of silkworm selling and cocoon making, and there is not much bargaining power. Compared with hang Jia Hu area, we do not have a higher degree of industrial organization. Over the past few years, the price of silk has been rising, and the former sericulture farmers have not switched to raising silkworms because of the rise in silk prices. Chen Yaping analyzed that sericulture industry is a highly dependent industry. The appreciation of the renminbi and the rising cost of labor and means of production will increase the pressure on the industry.

Raising the cost of raw silk silk Products follow price increases

Because of the rising price of silk, some silk enterprises in our city are also facing many difficulties. A staff member of Baoshan silk garment factory in Linghai city said: "the application of pure silk fabrics in clothing has been decreasing in recent years. Many customers like to choose cloth. Since 2005, our orders in this regard are becoming less and less.

Raw silk material of Taizhou Darmei silk Co., Ltd. is from Huzhou, which is 10% cheaper than Taizhou's raw silk. Guo Xiwei, head of the company, said: "the current raw silk price has greatly increased our production costs, and our silk products price can only be raised, and the current price increase is 20%."

It is understood that the labor intensity of silkworm breeding is very strong. With the rising cost of land and labor in the eastern coastal areas of China, some silkworms have abandoned mulberry and silkworms in the traditional silk producing areas in the East. In order to adapt to this situation, in 2006, the Ministry of Commerce launched and implemented the project of "moving east to west", and guided the transfer of raw material production base of cocoon and silk industry from the eastern part where land resources are scarce to the central and western inland provinces that are suitable for planting mulberry sericulture in a vast area, climate and soil.