Sericulture Industry Has Great Potential: Contracting 20 Mu Mulberry Garden Can Achieve Annual Income Of 200 Thousand Yuan.

The first sericultural technology and cultural industry conference in Hunan was held in Changsha today. Ningxiang, Wangcheng and Youxian launched the mulberry picking activities at the same time in three places.

Li Yiping, director of the Sericultural Research Institute, said at the meeting that the sericulture industry is promising. 1 families, 2 main labor forces, contracted 20 mu of mulberry garden, can achieve an annual income of 200 thousand yuan.

With the prosperity of modern textile industry, the ancient silk industry is no longer brilliant.

But nowadays, many primary and middle school students regard silkworm raising as a wonderful experience. In this season, the fruit shop in the city often has delicious mulberry to buy. It also shows that the sericulture industry is not far away from life.

Hunan has always been a mulberry orchard, and it is estimated that there are about 150 thousand acres of mulberry in the province.

In recent years, the provincial sericulture Research Institute adheres to the idea of "cross boundary, integration and interconnection", focusing on four directions of silkworm breeding, mulberry ecological application, sericulture resources development and sericultural industry technology popularization, and focuses on the development of products of "three products and one garden" of colored science silkworms, pure natural silk quilts, mulberry leaf series products and mulberry picking gardens.

Li Yiping said that mulberry berries are delicious and nutritious, and are generally listed before and after the May 1 Labor Day. Strawberry production is coming to an end. Most of the red bayberries are still immature. They can fill the market's "gap period" and are easy to pick and harvest. The mulberry leaves specially selected can be used to make delicious dishes, and can also be used to make high protein feed, which has broad industrial prospects.