Profit: Selling Silkworm Cocoon VS Silkworm Chrysalis &Nbsp; A Sericultural Person'S Account.

Dan Mu Guan, Haicheng, Liaoning

When interviewed by the market in Haicheng, Liaoning, the reporters were confronted with the merchants who were going to collect the stall to go home, and they were busy packing the tens of pounds of silkworm chrysalis that had not been sold that day.

Reporter: "it's time to take it, right?"

Silkworm chrysalis seller: "it's time to take it."

Reporter: "what can I do if I can't sell it?"

Silkworm chrysalis seller: "can't sell tomorrow to sell."

Reporter: "will it be bad to sell tomorrow?"

Silkworm chrysalis

Reporter: "are they alive?"

Silkworm chrysalis sellers: "they are all alive."

Silkworm chrysalis generally can live for a month. Most of the sold on the market are living pupae, and the living silkworm chrysalis can be sold.

Reporter: "how much is this Jin?"

Citizen: "six yuan."

Reporter: "did you buy raw or ripe?"

Citizen: "this is a live pupa.

You can move your head.

It is cold now, it seems that it is not moving.

Burn it with fire.

Move, you see. "

Reporter: "Oh, move."

Citizen: "this is a living pupa."

There is a habit of eating silkworm chrysalis, and every year from October to March, almost every household cooks.

In the 80s of last century, the silk reeling industry in Haicheng was gradually rising. The local silk reeling plant needed complete cocoon shells, and the farmers sold cocoons with pupa to the silk reeling plant to earn money from cocoon shells.

By 2000, the price of raw silk used in the textile industry has declined, and many reeling factories have closed down.

Liu Taiyi, who has released more than ten years of Tussah Silkworm in the village of Longfeng village in the town of Mu Mu, has often worked hard for a year and has not been able to earn enough money to sell cocoons. These hard work are seen in the eyes of his youngest son Liu Yunqiang.

Liu Taiyi's son Liu Yunqiang: "sold to a silk reeling plant, cocoon station, used for silk reeling."

Reporter: "how much is a kilogram?"

Liu Yunqiang: "when the cheapest time is only two yuan, more than one jin."

Seeing that the price of the cocoon shell was at the end of the year, Liu Yunqiang began to look for business outside. He found that many restaurants in Haicheng had silkworm chrysalis.

Reporter: "how much is this dish?"

Customer: "thirty yuan."

Interviewer: is it expensive?

Customer: "not expensive, normal price."

Reporter: "do we have many dishes in this restaurant?"

Customer: "many, basically, as long as silkworm chrysalis comes down, there is this dish."

Customer 2: "boil the cocoon pupa first with boiling water, then fry it with oil."

Customer 3: "open it for you."

Reporter: "what is the taste of the outside?"

Customer 3: "outside skin crisp."

Liu Yunqiang heard that the restaurant was willing to buy silkworm chrysalis at a price of five yuan per catty, and he fought the idea of silkworm chrysalis.

Liu Taiyi, a villager in Longfeng village, Yumu Town, Haicheng, Liaoning, said: "when he went down to the restaurant, he saw something that was fried, and he ate it very well. I went home to see that thing."

In order to take cocoons, silk reeling plants are soaked in high temperature liquid, and their silkworm chrysalis can not be eaten.

Liu Yunqiang and his father put together the cocoons that had originally taken the chrysalis to the silk reeling factory, leaving the pupa out and selling cocoons separately.

But how can we get the silkworm pupa intact and not destroy the cocoon shell?

Liu Taiyi: "this thing is on the mountain, when the rain is wet, the cocoon shell is soft."

The father and his son took the silkworm chrysalis by boiling water, but boiled silkworm chrysalis turned into a ripe silkworm chrysalis, which could only be stored for about five days.

Liu Taiyi: "if it's too far away, it won't get anywhere.

If it's closer, it can be sold that day. "

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Liu Yunqiang: "that will last for five days, and when cooked, the climate will not change."

The restaurant does not want to boil silkworm chrysalis, the storage time is short, does not say, the flavor has not produced the silkworm chrysalis to make well.

For Liu Taiyi, cooking silkworm chrysalis is not only a trouble, but also bad for cooking.

He began to think of the way to peel off cocoons for living pupae.

This kind of tool was invented when peeling cocoons. According to the diameter of silkworm chrysalis, the size of the steel ring was designed, and a blade was inserted at one end of the steel ring. The rotation of the blade ensured the integrity of the cocoon, and the quality of silkworm chrysalis could be discernible at a glance.

Reporter: "how can we see that it is alive?"

Liu Taiyi: "this is white on the bottom.

That's good. "

Interviewer: "what about it?"

Liu Taiyi: you see, it's not white. That's good.

You see, I cut it for you. You see, it's not sticking to the shell. It's got to be thrown away. "

The damaged silkworm chrysalis can go back to the field to be used as fertilizer. With this kind of knife, a person can peel more than 200 kilograms of silkworm chrysalis a day, which not only improves the efficiency, but also ensures that the silkworm pupa can survive for a month or so.

The silk reeling plant needs a complete cocoon shell, and the cocoon shell cut by the knife is not worth anything.

Despite this, Liu and his son sold more than 100 million silkworm eggs over the past year.

By 2004, Longfeng village will have 300 households to buy and buy silkworm chrysalis, and the processing capacity has reached about eight million jin a year.

Zhu Xingzhong is the biggest processing worker in Longfeng village, which can process more than 1000 Jin of silkworm chrysalis a day.

He sold silkworm chrysalis to Paul Liu, a wholesaler in a farmer's market in Shenyang.

Sales of local silkworm chrysalis are seasonal, and can only be sold between October and March of next year.

Paul Liu: "it is a place of origin, and every household has it.

I take about ten tons a day.

Reporter: "can it be sold out?"

Paul Liu: "yes."

Reporter: "how much can you occupy the Shenyang market?"

Paul Liu: "can take up 2/10."

Most silkworm chrysalis sold by Paul Liu sells to hotels and restaurants in Shenyang. These places need to be supplied all the year round. Some people ask Paul Liu to supply themselves in summer.

Paul Liu, a buyer of silkworm chrysalis, "there are also some hotels and restaurants in summer."

Paul Liu told Zhu Xingzhong about this request, so that he could find a way to supply himself in the summer.

Zhu Xingzhong, a villager in Longfeng village, Haicheng, Liaoning, said: "this thing, when the temperature is low, it can stay for more than 10 days. If the temperature is high, like summer, as long as it is hot, it will become a moth and fly moth.

When it becomes a moth, it loses so much that no one buys it.

The high temperature is not conducive to the preservation of silkworm chrysalis. Zhu Xingzhong weighed himself, decided to spend his money on building a cold storage, and built a cold storage of more than 10000 Jin silkworm chrysalis, the cost was more than thirty thousand yuan. The silkworm chrysalis in the summer was twice as high as the price in winter, and the cost could be recovered in a few months.

Zhu Xingzhong, a villager in Longfeng village, Haicheng, Liaoning, said: "in summer, some people want to eat some cocoons and pupae. At that time, the output is very small, and the price is relatively higher."

Zhu Xingzhong put cocoon silkworm chrysalis into the cold store every April when the temperature was rising, so that the silkworm chrysalis could survive for more than three months.

Reporter: "does this pupa freeze do not die in a cold store?"

Zhu Xingzhong: No, because there is a gas exchange here. We usually control it at 2 or 3 degrees Celsius above zero.

Reporter: "what is the state of silkworm chrysalis?"

Zhu Xingzhong: "semi dormancy."

Reporter: "how can we see that silkworm chrysalis is alive?"

Zhu Xingzhong: "look at this silkworm pupa's forehead. If it is white, it means it is alive. If it is black or turbid, it proves that it is dead."

Now, many villagers in Longfeng village have built cold storage, some renting cold storage outside and storing silkworm chrysalis.

The supply of goods is guaranteed throughout the year.

Zhu Mingqiang, a villager in Longfeng village, Haicheng, Liaoning, said: "we can do it all the year round. When spring comes, there will be fewer cocoons, so we can sell them out, and the price will be high."

Li Weimin, a villager in Longfeng village, Haicheng, Liaoning, said: "rent cold storage cocoons and pupae can not die. It takes a long time, when prices are high and when to sell them."

The local quantity can not meet the market demand. Many farmers have bought cocoons and silkworm chrysalis back to processing in the field. They went to Henan in the vicinity of Gaizhou, Liaoyang and Xiuyan.

Reporter: "where does this car go?"

Silkworm chrysalis purchaser Li Yongwei: "this car sends to Harbin."

Reporter: "how much can this car load?"

Silkworm pupae buyer Li Yongwei: "this car can load ten tons."

Reporter: "how often do you send it?"

Silkworm chrysalis buyer Li Yongwei: This is also three or four days.

In recent years, the price of cocoon shells has begun to rise, and the cocoon shells cut by the knife can also be used. After processing the cocoons and shells, a catty can be sold for more than thirty yuan, and most of them are processed into silk quilts.

The sale of silkworm chrysalis and cocoon shells can bring about eighty million yuan income to local farmers in one year.