Sichuan Pingchang County Carries Out Sericulture Winter Management

It is at the critical time of mulberry winter management.

"Cut the dry branches and dry piles first, or easy to hide pests. The pests will be serious next year; then cut off the 5 inch parts of the fork, and be careful not to hurt the buds."

In the mulberry field of Wang Feng, a large silkworm farmer in the five peak village of Sima Town, Pingchang County, the technical personnel of the county sericulture station pruned mulberry branches on one side, while earnestly explaining the winter management techniques of mulberry trees to the farmers.

In this year's mulberry winter management work, a professional team of base villages and professional cooperatives was set up to take the "five unified" measures of unified technology, unified pruning, unified whitewash, unified land reclamation and unified fertilization, to strengthen mulberry winter management.

According to incomplete statistics, the whole county organized 500 sets of mulberry saws, 15 tons of lime and 350 tons of household fertilizer, and 30 thousand yuan for winter subsidies for special heavy households.

At present, the work of silkworm mulberry winter management, with the main contents of weeding, loosening and fertilizing, pruning and shaping, and pest control, has basically ended, laying a good foundation for the increase of output and income of silkworm cocoons in 2011.