As a traditional characteristic industry in Yuexi County, the cultivation of mulberry silkworms has accumulated a thick cultural heritage of silkworm silk, and through the thin silk, a beautiful blueprint for rural revitalization has been woven.
Intensive sericulture, traditional industries renewed
In the sericulture planting base of Liantang Village, Lianyun Township, Yuexi County, the growth of green mulberry trees is very gratifying, and local farmers are weeding operations in the base to provide a good raw material guarantee for the growth of silkworm babies. In order to explore the new model of large-scale, intensive and efficient development of the sericulture industry, the cooperative is committed to promoting the high-density cultivation of hybrid mulberry, the standardization of small silkworm co-breeding, the intelligentization of temperature-controlled greenhouses, the labor-saving of large silkworm strip mulberry, the optimization of cocoons, the mechanization of sericulture production, and other new technologies, and promote the upgrading and development of traditional sericulture production.
The industrial park has built a 120-square-meter standardized small silkworm co-breeding room, 6 temperature-controlled ventilation sericulture greenhouses and 180 square meters of warehousing auxiliary housing, with a fixed asset investment of more than 2 million yuan. The base can raise 6 batches of silkworms per year, each batch can raise 100 boxes of silkworms, the annual output of 60,000 jin of fresh cocoons, the annual output value of more than 1 million yuan. The industrial park involves a total of 6 villager groups of youth, moon, cypress branches, shuangqiao, bamboo forest and oil mill, Liantang village plays a leading role in party building, organizes farmers to invest in land, village collectives to invest in shares with funds, enjoy fixed dividends every year, and the surrounding masses go to the industrial park through village collectives to work more than a thousand times.
"With the support of the 'Four Belts and One Self' people's livelihood project, our cooperative has transferred 249.8 mu of land, and used the model of 'leading enterprise + cooperative + village collective + farmer' to build a new large-scale sericulture industrial park, driving 48 peasant households to increase their employment and income nearby." Liu Wei, head of the cooperative, said.
Deep processing on the spot, agricultural industry to increase income
Yuexi County's Heping Township and Cocoon Station are full of people and shoulder to shoulder. "Cocoon weighs 130 pounds, take this receipt and go to the payment office below to collect the money." Following the sound, the farmer smiled and took the receipt and went straight to the payment office. Mulberry leaves green, silkworm strong, cocoon white, for several days, the village cocoon station to buy the point of the crowd in an endless stream, in front of the door, agricultural vehicles, tricycles, motorcycles, the river is endless, cocoons are spread everywhere, silkworm farmers while waiting for silkworm technicians to test, while pulling homely, joking.
"Lianfeng Company set up 23 cocoon toll stations in the county, purchased silkworm cocoons in a timely manner nearby, solved more than 80% of the county's cocoon sales problems, the company purchased more than 4 million pounds of fresh cocoons every year, and invested more than 100 million yuan in acquisition funds." Chu Shancun, head of Anhui Lianfeng Silk Co., Ltd., said.
In recent years, Yuexi County will be sericulture industry as an important local characteristics of the pillar industry, the county party committee and government vigorously support the development of the sericulture industry, the continuous introduction of support policies for farmers, greatly mobilized the enthusiasm of farmers to plant mulberry silkworms, Yuexi County mulberry garden area of 80,000 mu, the annual sericulture more than 80,000 boxes, the annual output of fresh cocoons more than 5,000 tons, sericulture farmers income reached more than 200 million yuan, sericulture production for 13 consecutive years ranked first in the province. There are 4 cocoon silk processing enterprises in the county, and the comprehensive processing capacity of cocoon silk ranks first in Anqing City. The annual comprehensive output value of the cocoon silk industry is 700 million yuan.
Resource utilization, industrial chain extension
Yuexi County sericulture resources comprehensive utilization of a wide range, mulberry edible mushrooms make the abandoned mulberry branches into "treasures", mulberry series handicrafts are exported to Europe and the United States, "Yuexi mulberry paper" was selected by the Forbidden City as the only special paper for the restoration and mounting of tired Qinzhai, protected by the national geographical indication products, mulberry tea, dried mulberry fruit, mulberry wine, mulberry leaf vegetables and other products are listed in batches. The small mulberry branch has "turned waste into treasure" three times, and the new ecological recycling mode of "mulberry-silkworm-fungus-mulberry (fuel)" in Yuexi County has stringed together a green industry, which has been praised by experts as a "model of circular agriculture". Yuexi County is leaping from the traditional "one cocoon, one silk" single industrial development model to the diversified development model of "a mulberry garden and a series of resources", and has achieved good economic and social benefits.
Popular science display, silkworm mulberry cultural inheritance
The first village-level sericulture science popularization hall in Anhui is located in Banzhu Village, Laibang Town, with "sericulture history and culture, modern achievements of sericulture in Laibang, and sericulture science and technology display" as the main line, and is divided into four sections: the preface hall, the sericulture culture and history hall, the sericulture hall and the sericulture science hall. Entering the main entrance, what comes into sight is the "Sericulture" theme relief, the wall uses relief to express the origin story of the ancestors and silkworms, according to the museum area one by one, a large number of Chinese sericulture silk culture, to list the history and culture of sericulture and other historical materials, in different forms and different techniques to show out, sound and photoelectric, silkworm specimens, planting mulberry silkworm miniature scenes, etc., all make people immersive, sericulture science museum next to the Banzhu Village Industrial Park, Banzhu Village Industrial Park design concept comes from the Silk Road, is designed according to the Silk Road route So that everyone can understand the historical and cultural trajectory of sericulture more intuitively and interestingly. As the first town of sericulture in Anhui Province, Laibang Town is taking the construction of a strong town in the agricultural industry as an opportunity to build a strong town demonstration of the sericulture industry.
Implement the chain length system and upgrade characteristic industries
In order to accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system with Yuexi characteristics, Yuexi County is vigorously promoting the industrial chain length system, in accordance with the model of "a county-level leader, a leading department, a work class, a work plan, a set of support policies, and an assessment method", focusing on creating ten major industrial chains such as tea, sericulture, Chinese medicinal materials, fragrant trees, vegetables, and alpine vegetables, focusing on the existing industrial strong chain, extension chain, and supplementary chain, creating a green economic industrial chain with the integrated development of one, two, and three industries, and casting a number of advantages with Yuexi characteristics. Influential industrial clusters, industrial bases, pilot enterprises and fist products inside and outside the province consolidate the "four belts and one self" characteristic breeding and breeding industry promotion action, form a ten-billion-level and one-billion-level industrial echelon development pattern, and promote the high-quality development of the county's characteristic industries.
(Huang Wenyi, Wang Shenbei)
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