Industrial Cluster: The Sericulture Industry In Nanzhang County, Xiangyang City "Broke The Cocoon Into A Butterfly"

At present, it is autumn silkworm growing season. At the demonstration and cooperation base of Wuhan Comprehensive Experimental Station of the National Sericulture Industry Technology System - the silkworm base in Leiping Village, Banqiao Town, Nanzhang County, the appearance of the small silkworm rearing room looks ordinary, but the inside is full of new ideas: the silkworm babies eat not mulberry leaves, but scientifically proportioned silkworm feed.

"This is a newly introduced temperature and humidity co breeding automation system, which can be controlled locally through the control box, and the environmental indicators such as temperature and humidity in the silkworm room can be remotely monitored and controlled by mobile phones thousands of miles away." On September 9, Jia Song, the technical director of Nanzhang Tiandu Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Farming Cooperative, told reporters that the silkworms raised here are more "robust", The yield per unit area will be increased by 5 kg to 10 kg, and the hatching rate and profitability can reach 98%, saving at least 20% of labor force.

Science and technology enable intelligent silkworm rearing and scientific silkworm rearing, which not only liberates human resources, but also improves breeding efficiency. Local farmers have returned to their old jobs. After unified training and post training, they have upgraded from "empiricist" farmers to "professional farmers".

At present, there are 18 villages in Banqiao Town developing sericulture industry, and the average collective economic income of the villages has increased by more than 20000 yuan; There are more than 100 large sericulture households, driving more than 500 farmers in the town to join the sericulture industry, with an annual increase of more than 5000 yuan per household; There are 17 specialized sericulture cooperatives, which raise more than 3000 silkworms annually, produce 270000 jin of fresh cocoons, and earn 7 million yuan of cocoons.

Nanzhang has a long history of planting mulberry and sericulture. When it prospered, there were 20 large sericulture villages with an area of more than 1000 mu. The area of mulberry gardens, the number of sericulture silkworms, and the output of cocoons once ranked among the top in the province. The "Chu Silk" brand was even more famous around the world.

In recent years, the county has grasped the policy opportunity, issued the implementation opinions on the development of sericulture industry, included the sericulture industry chain into the ten key agricultural industry chains of the county, and boosted the development of sericulture industry.

From "planting a mulberry tree well" to "raising a piece of silk paper well" to "lengthening a piece of silk", Nanzhang County pays attention to every link of the industrial chain and deeply excavates the economic value of the "chain".

"If we can't digest all the mulberry leaves, we will build a mulberry leaf tea workshop. The pruned mulberry branches used to be used as firewood, but now the mulberry branch fungus workshop can turn waste into treasure." Bai Yipeng, secretary of the Party branch of Leiping Village, said that the village vigorously develops the deep processing industry of agricultural products, radiates more than 2000 mu of mulberry gardens around, and processes 10000 jin of high-quality mulberry leaf tea and 6000 bags of mulberry branch fungus every year, Sericulture resources can be transformed and added to value on the spot.

In order to further strengthen the development of sericulture resources and products, with the support of the Economic Crops Research Institute of the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanzhang County Association for the Promotion of Aging and other units, the Banqiao Doctor Workstation of Wuhan Comprehensive Experimental Station of the National Sericulture Industry Technology System with an investment of 3.9 million yuan was officially put into use recently.

Wei Zhijun, secretary of the Party Committee of Banqiao Town, said that the base has built a sericulture technology innovation platform to help the local people comprehensively utilize sericulture resources, extend the industrial chain, develop sericulture tourism products, and accelerate the construction of a major sericulture town in the province.

In addition, Nanzhang also supports Hubei Dongzhang Industrial Co., Ltd., a key provincial leading enterprise in agricultural industrialization, to promote the industrial operation mode of "company+base+farmer+factory", accelerate the industrial transformation and upgrading, and further expand the influence of "Chusi".

The Nanzhang Chu Mulberry Silk Culture Expo Park built by the company has become a model of the integration of sericulture industry, three industries in the province, a national 3A level tourist attraction, the first silk industry tourism project and sericulture tourism destination in the province. Here, tourists can not only walk into the production line of the silk reeling workshop to witness the process of "reeling and cocooning", but also see the silk reeling equipment in the library, understand the history of Chu's silk, taste mulberry leaf tea, mulberry juice, mulberry jam and other silk themed products, and feel the charm of silk products such as silk quilts, silk scarves and cheongsam.

Xiao Xuewen, the deputy general manager of the company, told the reporter that since this year, the company has received 93000 tourists. It is estimated that this year's reception will exceed 150000, and the silk reeling industry and tourism revenue will reach 120 million yuan.

From "four sided mulberry" to "centralized and contiguous mulberry", from "small farmers" to "professional cooperatives", from "sporadic and scattered breeding" to "labor-saving silkworm rearing in greenhouse", from "one industry planting and breeding" to "integration of three industries", the planting mode, main body of silkworm rearing, silkworm rearing mode and industrial model of mulberry gardens in Nanzhang County have undergone tremendous changes, and the sericulture industry has "broken into a butterfly". This year, the area of sericulture in the county is stable at 50000 mu, and the annual output of fresh cocoons is expected to be more than 800 tons.

From mulberry leaves to cocoon silk, Nanzhang sericulture is becoming the main focus of rural revitalization.

Luo Xingbin, secretary of Nanzhang County Party Committee, said that Nanzhang will further strengthen this pillar industry, accelerate the integration of the county's sericulture resources, promote the in-depth research, development and processing of products, continue to extend the sericulture industry chain, and accelerate the construction of the cocoon and silk industrialization business base in northwest Hubei. (Full media reporter Zhu Xian, Peng Yuejiao, correspondent Gong Liangjie, Zhang Haoting)

(Source: Xiangyang Daily)