Raw Materials Up To 50% &Nbsp; Silk Merchants In Chengdu Are Having A Hard Time.

Affected by weather factors, the time of listing cocoons was postponed to mid June, resulting in the rise of silk prices.

Silk merchants in the silk city of Chengdu are facing the test of shortage recently: the price of silk has been rising steadily, and the selling price of all kinds of silk products has risen, which should make silk merchants happy. But the reality is that the price of silk has gone up, but silk merchants are unable to get goods. In the face of "selling one piece and one piece", many silk shop owners are gloomy over their faces.

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Last year, cocoons sold for only 18 yuan per kilogram increased to more than 30 yuan this year.

Driven by the rising cost of cocoon cocoons, the price of raw silk has risen from 140 thousand yuan per ton to about 200000 yuan in the beginning of this year.

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"Silk has gone up since last year, and this year it has gone up more fiercely."

The two paragraph of the people's South Road, a silk shop, Mr. Zhang, who has been engaged in silk business for many years, complained that "before 1 meters, it was only 24 yuan. In the first few days, the goods were purchased, and the 1 meters rose to 38 yuan."

Zhang believes that this year's abnormal weather is also a reason for the rise in the price of silk, but he insists that someone must be hyping silk: "otherwise it will not be so fierce."

Mr. Wang, head of a silk boutique in Chengdu Silk City, complained that the rise in silk clothing had little impact on sales. The only worry was that goods could not get in.

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[industry sources said that tight supply of silk raw materials has been going on for nearly 1 years, resulting in the rising price of silk.

At the same time, due to abnormal weather this year, the listing time of our province's cocoon is postponed to mid June.

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Affected by the global financial crisis, the number of export orders in China's silk enterprises has been on the decline since 2008, and the price of silk was once plummeted, which led to the low enthusiasm of sericulture and sericulture, resulting in the reduction of silkworm production this spring.

Coupled with the delay in the listing of cocoons this year, most of the silk mills are holding cash to collect cocoons in the countryside.

Sichuan province commerce department market operation Department responsible person disclosed that this year our province cocoon purchase guidance price is 23 yuan / kg, up nearly 35% last year.

The official also said that the market could float 15% on the basis of the guidance price, and this year's cocoon purchase price will increase to 50%.

Considering the unusual weather this year, it is expected that the full cocoon market of Sichuan province will have to wait until the middle of this month.

According to an analyst at the Ministry of industry of Sichuan Silk Research Institute, if the market price is announced on the Internet, the profit margins of silk enterprises will be sharply compressed this year, and the market prospect is worrying.