From mulberry leaves, silkworm cocoons, to strands of silk threads, and silk quilts...... The mulberry silkworm industry in Nalou Town, Yongning District, Nanning City has gradually formed an upstream and downstream development model of the whole industrial chain, extending mulberry planting, small silkworm co-breeding, and large silkworm breeding, forming a sufficient and stable supply channel. Extending down to silk processing, it not only helps rural revitalization through industrial development, but also drives villagers to increase their income and become rich.
The whole silkworm industry chain demonstration base in Sanjiang Village, Nalou Town, Yongning District, has built a factory building to realize the development of the whole silkworm industry chain
The sericulture industry in Nalou Town, Yongning District, helps rural revitalization
On April 23, the Sanjiang Mulberry Silkworm Whole Industry Chain Demonstration Base in Nalou Town, Yongning District, Nanning City ushered in the harvest of the second batch of silkworm cocoons this year, and the base presented a busy scene. This is a microcosm of the effectiveness of Nalou Town, Yongning District, in incorporating the traditional sericulture industry into the pillar industry and helping rural revitalization through industrial development. Li Chunhong, the manager of the Sanjiang Mulberry Silkworm Whole Industry Chain Demonstration Base in Nalou Town, told reporters that he used to raise silkworms on a small scale at home, and later established the Nanning Qixing Sericulture Cooperative, which transferred 520 acres of mulberry garden in Nadu Slope, Sanjiang Village, Nalou Town, rented 7 collective silkworm houses, built a demonstration base for the whole industry chain of mulberry silkworms, and developed the whole industrial chain of mulberry planting, silkworm co-breeding, silkworm breeding, silk processing and silkworm sand, organic fertilizer.
Workers feed mulberry leaves to silkworm babies
Workers pick mulberry leaves in a mulberry field
It is understood that the base not only drove more than 1,500 villagers around to raise silkworms to increase income, but also provided villagers with mulberry leaf picking, feeding silkworm babies, cleaning silkworm houses and other employment opportunities, Qixing cooperatives have also established a production training base, for many years for silkworm farmers to provide silkworm breeding technology training. Chen Dihuan, a villager in Nawu Village, said that he has been working at the base for more than two years, and he has a job to do at his doorstep, which can not only take care of his family but also increase his income, with about 120 yuan a day, and picking mulberry leaves and feeding silkworms and other farm work is also within his power.
Li Chunhong (front), the head of the cooperative, inspects the growth of silkworm babies
Workers carry out cocoon extraction work in the workshop
"This base is the second batch of silkworm cocoons harvested this year, with an output of more than 4,000 catties, and the current market price can also reach about 33 yuan per catty, and sales orders are also endless. Huang Kaihang, deputy director of the comprehensive service center of agriculture, forestry and water conservancy in Nalou Town, told reporters that planting mulberry and silkworm is one of the traditional pillar industries in Nalou Town, there are more than 8,000 sericulture households in the town, and the large sericulture households are mainly concentrated in Nawu Village, Sanjiang Village, Tandun Village, Tanyuan Village, etc., with a perennial mulberry planting area of more than 40,000 acres, and this year's new mulberry garden exceeds 1,000 acres. Technical guidance on water and fertilizer management.
The golden cocoon produced by the Qixing Silkworm Professional Cooperative in Nanning City
In addition, the Sanjiang Mulberry Silkworm Whole Industry Chain Demonstration Base has improved and renovated the base mulberry garden and expanded the silkworm house, purchased silk processing equipment, and built a new silk cotton processing workshop, as well as silk, boiling and drying workshops and cold storage, if the price of silkworm cocoons is low, silkworm farmers no longer directly sell fresh cocoons, but send their own silkworm cocoons to the workshop for processing into silk cotton, Silk quilts and other primary products are then sold by themselves or entrusted to cooperatives to sell, and this development model changes the traditional sale of fresh cocoons of silkworm farmers to silkworm farmers' own production of silk and silk quilts, so as to achieve a win-win effect for cooperatives and silkworm farmers.
Silk quilts processed by local enterprises are finished products
In 2023, the output value of the Sanjiang Mulberry Silkworm Whole Industry Chain Demonstration Base will exceed 5.6 million yuan, increasing the collective economic income of the village by 60,000 yuan, and driving 15 poverty alleviation households to become rich by planting mulberry and raising silkworms and providing jobs.
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