Silk Is Rising And Silk Is In Distress.

Entering the December, Hangzhou felt a sense of winter. The first few days ago, we had the first snow in the winter. "It's cold. We have no heating on this side. clothes Quilts should be specially kept warm. " Miss Li, who lives in West Lake Road, Hangzhou, told reporters that she had recently visited many home textile shops and wanted to buy two beds of silk quilts. But after turning, she found that silk was much more expensive than she had expected. "I want to make a quilt of four or five kilograms, but if four kilograms of silk is added to the cloth, the quilt will be almost 2000 yuan." Miss Li said with emotion, "I heard that because of the reduction of raw materials this year, raw silk has been reduced, and many manufacturers are out of stock."

　　 Cocoon reduction

The reporter telephoned a home textile shop near West Lake road in Hangzhou. The staff of the shop told reporters that the price of silk was very strong this year. Last year, the silk was around 360 yuan ~370 yuan / Jin, and this year it was about 390 yuan per catty. The main reason is that the output of cocoons has decreased a lot this year. "This summer is not a high temperature. Especially in July and August, many mulberry trees died and the survival rate of silkworms was low."

In addition, the home textile shop staff also told reporters that silk and other household textile products prices rose seasonal factors, and now the cold weather, coupled with various holidays, it is Sale Busy season. "Not only does silk price rise, but electricity and water do not increase."

The statistics provided by the Silk Association of Huzhou Textile Industry Association in Zhejiang showed that the purchase price of spring cocoons in Zhejiang province was generally higher than that of the National Cocoon wire office in 2013. The cocoon price in each area of Hangzhou Jiaxing Lake area was more than 2200 yuan, and that in Huzhou area was more than 2400 yuan per 1750.

The situation of autumn cocoon is also not optimistic. According to the monitoring data, the purchase price of late autumn cocoons in Jiaxing area of Zhejiang is about 20% higher than that in autumn. Reporters learned from the Zhejiang Price Bureau, Jiaxing's late autumn silkworm rearing capacity was 141 thousand this year, a decrease of 15.9% over the same period. The current cocoon price is about 1830 yuan per 50 kg, up 25.5% over the same period. In addition, this year's autumn cocoon also appeared the situation of low yield and low quality, mainly because of the droughts during the breeding period, the mulberry leaves were old, the cocoons were relatively small, and even a lot of "Bombyx mori" appeared. Many farmers said that the output and quality of cocoons in late autumn this year had a downward trend compared with last year.

　　 silk Industry faces difficulties

At the end of this year, the silk industry is destined to usher in a severe winter. Reporters learned in the interview that because of the unsatisfactory foreign trade orders this year, many silk production and processing enterprises have no single connection. And the luck of some enterprises received orders, but also faced with the problem of cocoon harvest, high prices, and sometimes even high prices can not buy raw materials, and raw materials processed after processing may not even cost back.

The words of Ling Lanfang, President of Zhejiang Huzhou Textile Industry Association, also illustrate this problem. Ling Lanfang said, now there is no order to find orders, orders to worry about raw materials. In recent years, the cost of producing silk has risen rapidly, and skilled workers have been unable to find equipment, and the equipment of enterprises has fallen behind. The silk reeling industry in Zhejiang is rapidly declining. It is reported that in 10 years, the production of cocoon silk in Zhejiang has dropped from fourth to 20% in the whole country, from 20% to 10%.

Li Lingling, Secretary General of the textile industry association of Huzhou, Zhejiang, said that according to the calculation of cocoon output per ton in Huzhou area at around 125 thousand yuan, the cost of raw silk cocoons is 385 thousand yuan per ton, plus the processing cost of 75 thousand yuan per ton, such as labor, water and fuel, and the reduction of by-products is 35 thousand to 40 thousand yuan per ton. The actual cost per ton of raw silk has reached 420 thousand ~42.5 yuan. According to the market price of raw silk less than 400 thousand yuan per ton, every production of one ton of silk will cost about 20 thousand yuan.