The Village Of Silkworm In Jiang Wu, Ping Shui, Shaoxing, Zhejiang Is Facing Extinction.

Speaking of Ping Shui town Heng Lu Village Jiang Wu A lot of old villages in Shaoxing are fresh in memory. As a famous silkworm breeding village in Shaoxing, as long as the cocoon harvest season is full, the village is full of snow and white cocoons, just like a rustic scroll full of local customs. But yesterday morning, reporters walked into the natural village, but it was hard to find a sericultural family.

"In a week or so, the autumn silkworms will have to go up the hill. If we buy the silkworm cocoon in spring, the income will reach more than 2000 yuan." After inquiring, the reporter came to a family called Jiang Changjiang's sericultural villagers. Jiang Changjiang told reporters that the purchase price of cocoons reached a record high of 41 yuan per kilogram this year, and the income of his family's spring silkworm was around 2000 yuan, so he decided to raise the price. autumn-bred silkworms 。 When the reporter asked who still owns silkworms today, Jiang Changjiang said with a wry smile that he had only 4 households in the entire natural village.

20 years ago, the natural village of Chiang Wu was a large silkworm rearing village. Almost all households in the village lived on silkworms. Why do today only 4 families raise silkworms? Jiang Changjiang told reporters that cocoons have been buying prices for many years, so that young people give up the family industry of sericulture. In 2008, there were 55 families in Chiang Wu Village, who were raising silkworms. The purchase price of cocoons at that time was 36 yuan per kilogram. According to the theory, the annual household income could reach nearly 10000 yuan. "Sericulture is hard, compared with migrant workers, this income is not directly proportional to income." Jiang Changjiang said, in fact, 3 years ago, many of the old people who stayed at home were still at home. They just couldn't do anything now. They had to stop. Their half - Autumn silkworms were still in the care of their 63 year old wife Jiang Chazhen.

"Because the silkworm industry has been in recession for many years, many villagers have plough off mulberry trees and plant other cash crops, which is also the reason why the sericulture is" no successor. " Villagers Jiang Bingliang learned that reporters had come to interview silkworms, and he recalled that before the village had introduced preferential policies to encourage farmers to raise silkworms. For this reason, almost all families in the village have silkworms, and their families have raised silkworms, but now they have given up. "Raising silkworms is easy, but it is difficult to make them." Jiang Bingliang said, to make silkworm babies produce high-quality cocoons, the best way is to plant mulberry trees and mulberry leaves, but now there are fewer mulberry trees, let alone raising silkworms.

Facing the forthcoming Vanish In the interview, the village cadres in Heng Lu village also expressed their reluctantly. They told reporters that the villagers should also look at the entire silk industry. To restore the once characteristic sericultural village, we need to keep the cocoon purchase price rising year by year, so as to enhance the confidence of the villagers in raising silkworms, but at the same time, the price of cocoons will drop because of too many farmers who are raising silkworms. "It is difficult and difficult, and we do not want this traditional industry in the village." Vanish "..."