Kampuchea Government Strongly Supports Silk Industry

Recently, it is reported that the Kampuchea government announced the establishment of the Kampuchea silk development committee, aiming at reversing the backward silk industry in Kampuchea and increasing employment in the silk industry. silk The rapid development of the industry.

Kampuchea silk development committee is a unit under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Commerce of Kampuchea. The former Minister of Commerce of Kampuchea, in 2013, advocated that it should be established after the general election, but it has been postponed until now. The Kampuchea Silk Development Commission said it will revise a series of industrial support policies to promote investors' confidence in investing in the silk industry in Kampuchea. At present, the committee is collecting information from industrial investors, thus formulating a clear development path for the industry. Its specific work is to comb the thread of the silk industry development, and will formulate the order of industrial revitalization work according to the budget plan.

"The establishment of Kampuchea silk development committee will improve silk production technology and enhance competitiveness." In order to promote the production capacity of the silk industry, the State Council Secretary of Commerce, Mao Tao La, will start from planting mulberry, raising silkworms to silk production, and supplying and expanding the international export market in the domestic market.

The output of Kampuchea's silk industry has shrunk considerably in recent two years. The widespread use of pesticides seriously threatened the survival of silkworms and reduced the production of silk. Natural silk 。 MenSinoeun, chief executive of the Kampuchea Technical Association, said that the world's natural silk production used for making luxurious garments in recent years required 300~400 tons. However, natural silk production in Kampuchea has been declining. The main problem, he said, is the massive use of chemicals in farmland. "Silk production is very rare, mainly due to the use of chemicals in rice fields and other crops in the countryside, which seriously affect the survival of silkworms. Most farmers turn cassava into cassava or transfer to other countries such as Thailand." Backward production technology is also a short board of Kampuchea's silk industry. Industry experts point out that the traditional manual yarn spinning technology is outdated and the technology is tied up. Silk thread The efficiency of manufacturers can not be integrated with international standards.

In addition, the yield of Kampuchea's golden silk has been decreasing in recent years, that is, the annual output of 10 tons in 2008 has dropped to the current 1 tons. To meet domestic demand, Kampuchea imports hundreds of tons of gold silk every year. Insiders pointed out that the production of gold silk requires huge and long-term investment. If the government does not have enough budget, it must attract private investment, because the price of gold silk is very high. The price of the raw material has risen from $60 a kilogram 5 years ago to 90 US dollars / kg in 2014. Kampuchea will continue to advocate the establishment of the golden silk Producers Association and organize professional working groups to provide technical training to them directly to help them produce standard gold silk, Mao said.

It is understood that the Kampuchea government has designated silk as one of the 8 priority agricultural products in China, and plans to include gold silk in the list of national geographic indications products (GI). Experts point out that in the process of revitalization of the silk industry in Kampuchea, 25 thousand new jobs will be generated and 10 million dollars of revenue will be created.