Sericulture Industry Drives Farmers To Become Rich In Yancheng, Jiangsu

The busy Dafeng port Timber Industrial Park is only a microcosm of the rapid development of Yancheng's forestry industry.

In recent years, the forestry industry has been regarded as a "green industry" to revitalize the regional economy in Yancheng City. The "green bank" has increased the income of farmers. The "green treasury" of the local finance has been given priority to development, with the emphasis on five major characteristics, namely, Aspen processing, mulberry fruit economic forest, flower seedling, eco-tourism and compound operation. The total output value of forestry in 2009 has reached 8 billion 800 million yuan, an increase of 46% over the 6 billion yuan in 2005.

The silkworm industry is divided into four parts.

Mention the development of forestry industry in Yancheng.

In order to make this traditional advantage industry bigger and stronger, Yancheng City has set up a silkworm technical guidance Station in forestry bureau to strengthen the guidance and management of the industry.

Yancheng City has also organized and encouraged sericulture farmers to set up specialized sericulture cooperatives, with the cooperation organization as the carrier, and carry out integrated production, processing and sales, and sericulture industry has developed steadily.

"The global financial crisis has caused a certain impact on the development of our silkworm industry.

In the first half of this year, cocoon and silk gradually went out of the trough, showing a good trend of "three increase", namely, the increase of seed production, 750 thousand silkworm eggs raised throughout the whole year, 100 thousand more than last year, the increase of Cocoon Output, the annual production of 31 thousand tons of cocoons, the increase of 5 thousand tons over last year, the increase of cocoon output value, and the output value of cocoons for 1 billion 150 million yuan in the whole year, an increase of 520 million yuan over last year, an increase of 82.5%.

The output value of the city's mulberry garden is 6360 yuan, which has increased 130 yuan per capita for the whole city, and for the first time, it has exceeded 100 yuan.

Zhang Jie Bao, a sericultural station director of Yancheng City Forestry Bureau, told reporters happily.

Dongtai city of Yancheng is the base of China's high-quality cocoon and the national sericulture science and technology extension demonstration base.

In recent years, Dongtai takes the two leading enterprises of Fuan cocoon silk and Mingxing cocoon and silk as the main body, adopts the "company + cooperative + sericulture" industrialization mode of operation, and signs the production and sales contract through cooperatives and silkworms, and contracts are signed for three years.

"Order sericulture has effectively mobilized the enthusiasm of farmers to develop sericulture production. At present, Dongtai has built 8 towns with more than 8000 mu of mulberry trees, 86 villages over 1000 mu, and more than 30 thousand households with more than 3 mu."

Zhao Bingrong, deputy director of Dongtai Municipal Agriculture Commission, said.