Silk industry is the most representative characteristic industry in Suzhou, carrying profound cultural connotations.
As the “root” of the traditional silk industry, mulberry planting and silkworm rearing are Wujiang’s traditional characteristic industries. It has lasted for five thousand years and has created Wujiang’s unique city card.
In recent years, Wujiang District has adopted policies such as ecological compensation measures to stabilize the area of mulberry gardens, expand sericulture production models, promote industry transformation and upgrading, and strive to retain the silk industry. “root”.
To increase farmers’ enthusiasm for planting mulberry and raising silkworms, we are the first in China to include mulberry gardens in ecological compensation
78-year-old Pan Yuguan is a villager in Group 18 of Qixin Village, Zhenze Town, Wujiang. He and his wife Shen Xueying have more than 50 years of experience in raising silkworms.
“Now I still have more than an acre of mulberry land at home, and I raise spring silkworms every spring, raising one silkworm seed each time.” Pan Yuguan told reporters that in the past, in addition to spring silkworms, summer silkworms, early autumn silkworms, and late autumn silkworms were also raised. Silkworms should be raised throughout the year. When there were many mulberry trees, I once raised 2 silkworm seeds.
Picking mulberry, feeding silkworms, and removing silkworm pellets, Lao Pan’s family becomes extremely busy during the sericulture season. Lao Pan told reporters that precisely because the work of raising silkworms is cumbersome, there are not many people raising silkworms in the village now, and they are basically elderly people like his wife. “One mu of mulberry land can receive a subsidy of more than 500 yuan. A single silkworm seed can yield 80 to 100 kilograms of cocoons, and 100 kilograms of cocoons can be sold for 2,200 to 2,300 yuan.” One season of spring silkworms can bring more than 2,000 yuan to Lao Pan’s family.
“On the one hand, raising sericulture can supplement some income for the family. On the other hand, mainly because of the past decades, I have a feeling that I can’t let go of raising sericulture. At this season every year, if I don’t raise sericulture, I will always feel lacking. Order something.” Lao Pan said. This is the reason why mulberry planting and sericulture can be passed down from generation to generation in rural areas of Wujiang.
Zheng Lili, a staff member of the Agricultural Services Center of Zhenze Town, told reporters that a total of 1,386 silkworms were raised in the town this year, including more than 900 silkworms raised by individual households, concentrated in Qixin Village, Xinghua Village, Xinxing Village, Zhujiabang, and Dachangang In other villages, most of the silkworm farmers are elderly people over 60 years old.
“Currently, there are more than 3,000 sericulture farmers in Wujiang District, mainly concentrated in Wujiang Zhenze, Taoyuan, Pingwang and other areas.” Gu Liliu, director of the Sericulture and Horticulture Station of Wujiang Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau, told reporters that this year, the whole district has There are 3,050 farmers raising spring silkworms, with a total of 3,985 silkworm seeds.
In order to encourage farmers to raise sericulture, Wujiang District issued the “Wujiang District Sericulture Ecological Compensation Measures” and “Wujiang District Sericulture Ecological Compensation Assessment Methods” in 2015 and 2016. It is the first country in China to include mulberry gardens in ecological compensation. area.
As of 2021, Wujiang has implemented sericulture ecological compensation for a total of 27,621.7 pieces of silkworm seeds, involving 23,236 households of sericulture farmers. The cumulative area of compensated mulberry gardens reached 35,522.96 acres, and the compensation amount reached 15.5132 million yuan.
The ecological compensation policy has effectively increased the enthusiasm of Wujiang silkworm farmers for production, stabilized the area of mulberry gardens, and promoted the sustainable development of the mulberry planting and sericulture industry.
Give full play to the leading role of leading enterprises and explore a new model of integrated development of sericulture, agriculture, culture and tourism
What is gratifying is that there are two modern sericulture parks covering an area of more than 500 acres in Wujiang. This was created by the Wujiang District Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau by actively playing the leading role of leading silk enterprises.
Walking into the Taihu Snow Sericulture Modern Demonstration Base in Zhenze Town, Wujiang, rows of well-proportioned mulberry branches are lush and leafy. The broad mulberry leaves are bright green under the sunlight, exuding a refreshing atmosphere. of fragrance.
Beside the mulberry garden, a long row of white houses are greenhouses for raising silkworms. Entering mid-May, the silkworm babies that have just entered their third instar are quietly “sleeping” on the long silkworm beds. After the fire emerges in the third instar, they will eat whole mulberry leaves in big mouthfuls to save energy for spinning silk and cocoons ten days later.
In recent years, Wujiang has built two modern sericulture parks of more than 500 acres in Zhenze Town and Pingwang Town based on two provincial-level agricultural leading enterprises, Taihu Xue and Huajia, to explore the transformation of traditional sericulture industry into high-yield, The transformation path of efficient and high-quality modern industries.
The modern sericulture park adopts a new model of “company + farmer + base” sericulture production with farmer participation and enterprise standardized management, adopts a new standardized sericulture breeding system with mechanized operations and automated operations, and promotes supporting technologies for moderate-scale sericulture operations.
“We hope that through this large-scale, intelligent approach, we can gradually improve the modernization level of the sericulture industry, create a new model for the industrial development of mulberry planting and sericulture, and lead from point to point. Develop high-quality sericulture.” Gu Liliu said.
It is precisely relying on the profound sericulture culture that Zhenze, the “Chinese Silk Town”, was born. In recent decades, Zhenze Silk Enterprise has continuously introduced new products, accumulated reputation and reputation, and created well-known brands such as Taihu Snow, Ciyun, Shanshui, and Jili with its distinctive and excellent quality.
At present, Zhenze Town, with its unique silk culture and profound historical accumulation, is exploring a new model of integrated development of sericulture, agriculture, culture and tourism, and launching an agricultural, culture and tourism tourism route focusing on the sericulture and silk specialty industries, becoming a modern sericulture industry. new industry integration developmentHighlights.
Strengthen the protection of sericulture and promote the sustainable and stable development of the industry
While focusing on local development, Wujiang also gives full play to the talent, technology, capital and other advantages of the regional sericulture, cocoon and silk industry, and actively responds to the national “One Belt and One Road” initiative, Western Development, national poverty alleviation and other strategies, and “Going Out” development.
Huajia Group, Shanshui Silk, etc. are among the best.
In recent years, Huajia Group has developed hundreds of thousands of acres of large-scale sericulture production bases in contiguous poverty-stricken areas in southwest China such as Guangxi, Yunnan, and Sichuan, and has explored a unique “Huajia Model” of industrial poverty alleviation to assist local areas. Tens of thousands of farmers have escaped poverty and lived a prosperous life.
Enterprises such as Shanshui Silk went to northern Jiangsu to establish a modern sericulture demonstration base that integrates cocoon production, ecological construction, leisure and sightseeing and other functions. It not only provides enterprises with a stable supply of high-quality raw material cocoons, but also effectively promotes local economic development.
Currently, the Wujiang District Agricultural and Rural Affairs Bureau is working hard to guide local governments, enterprises and scientific research institutes to actively carry out government-industry-university-research cooperation in sericulture planting and achieve industrial scientific and technological progress.
The Zhenze Town Government, Taihu Snow Silk Co., Ltd. and Suzhou Vocational University jointly signed a contract to open up a road of cooperation between government, industry, academia and research, in the industrytechnological innovation, sericulture culture Carry out exchanges and collaboration in inheritance and transfer of scientific research results. Huajia Group and Suzhou University jointly established the “Suzhou University Jiangsu Huajia Silk Co., Ltd. Sericulture Silk Collaborative Innovation Center” to carry out comprehensive cooperation in the fields of new varieties of silkworms, intelligent sericulture and sericin utilization, and continuously promote sericulture. The silk industry pioneers and innovates in various fields.
“Next, Wujiang will use the “Wujiang District Silk Industry High Quality Development Action Plan (2021-2025)” as a guide to stabilize the sericulture industry and guide the industry Focusing on transformation and upgrading, integrated development and promoting scientific and technological progress, we will continue to promote the high-quality development of the sericulture industry and promote the rural revitalization strategy.” said the relevant person in charge of the Wujiang District Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau.
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