Small lac worms bulged up the forester's money bag

Xu Tingqiong picking lac

Manwan Town lac planting area of 3,000 acres, in 2018 harvest and sale of 140 tons of lac, to achieve income of 1.4 million yuan, has become an important channel for farmers to increase income.

The lac industry, once an important part of the industrial structure of Manwan Town, is one of the main sources of economic income for the peasant masses along the Lancang River Valley. With the changes in supply and demand in the lac market, the lac market has shown a recovery trend in recent years, the price stabilization trend is obvious, and the farmers operating lac have also begun to pay attention to the development of the lac industry. Lac farmers cover 50 villager groups in Wuli, Anle, Manwan, Baodian, Wenmao, Xizhao and other villages along the lancang river valley. Among them, the average annual harvest of 19 lac growers in the Eagle Basket area is 70 tons.

Wang Tianrong and Xu Tingqiong are villagers of the Fear Ridge Group in Wenmao Village, and there are 6 people in the family. Since 1987, 100 mu of lac garden has been contracted to be built and operated in Eagle Basket, and 5 tons of lac have been harvested this year, calculated according to the price of fresh glue just harvested from the host tree branches of 10 yuan per kilogram, achieving an income of 50,000 yuan. Xu Tingqiong said: "The investment in lac production is small, the effect is fast, two releases and two harvests a year, and the efficiency is high." The lac harvested by my family this year made a profit of 40,000 yuan after deducting the cost. "While protecting the native host trees, lac farmers plant a large number of different types of lac host plants in combination with the requirements of forestry development and ecological construction. Host tree varieties are divided into legumes and non-legumes, mainly based on the legume Nanling yellow sandalwood, has been planted more than 20,000 plants, the entire lac forest ecology is good, inter-crop species increase income, so that it plays an efficient ecological protection function and woodland economic benefits, not only improve the lancang River basin ecological environment, but also to protect the agricultural land and agricultural ecological environment, multi-channel increase farmers' income are playing a huge role.

Wang Tingguang is a lac acquirer in the Fork Mountain Group of Anle Village. He began to acquire lac in 2016 and established the lac professional cooperative in 2018, with 106 members. The cooperative buys back lac by providing lac seeds to members free of charge, and the lac is mainly sold to Chuxiong City and Lincang City, and the supply channel is stable, which effectively solves the sales problem of lac growers.

Today, the banks of the Lancang River, which were once full of loess barren mountains, have been draped in "green clothes" by the lac host tree, and soil erosion and forestry resource protection have been effectively controlled. Jiang Guiyong, deputy secretary of the party committee and mayor of Manwan Town, said: "With the continuous optimization of the industrial structure, the requirements for the balanced development of agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry products have been continuously enhanced. The lac host tree is a very important forest resource and has both ecological and economic value. The development of the lac industry in Manwan Town has not only opened up channels for forestry efficiency and farmers' income, but also become an important way to build ecological civilization. (Zhou Lihua text/photo)

【Link】 Lac is a purple-red gelatinous substance secreted by the lac worm living on the host plant to cover its insect body and protect itself, this purple-red pure natural substance is called lac. Lac is an important pure natural resin, its main components are hydroxy fatty acids, sesquitequiterpene acid, but also contains lac pigment and lac wax and other substances, with insulation, moisture-proof, rust-proof, anti-corrosion, anti-ultraviolet, strong adhesion, good elasticity, smooth coating film, acid resistance, oil, good plasticity, good color fixing, stable chemical properties, non-toxic and irritating to people and animals, etc., is widely used in daily chemical, mechanical, electronic, military, pharmaceutical, food and other industries.