In the past few days, the first batch of silkworm cocoons have been on the market in Mengshan County, Guangxi, and the major cocoon purchase points in the county are crowded with silkworm farmers. At the cocoon purchasing station of Huahong Silk Co., Ltd., silkworm farmers weighed, inspected, graded, and priced bags of cocoons in an orderly manner… Everyone’s faces were filled with the joy of a good harvest. Liang Jianlin, a poverty-stricken household in Shuixiu Village, Xihe Town, told reporters: “The first batch of silkworm cocoons this year sold for 42 yuan per kilogram. I got nearly 1,500 yuan from selling the cocoons.” Liang Shiqiang, the relevant person in charge of Huahong Company, also said that the company has now sold Purchased more than 40,000 kilograms of silkworm cocoons.
It is understood that in recent years, Mengshan County has adhered to the development strategy of “establishing the county ecologically and developing the county with characteristics”, and regarded the cocoonsilk industry as a characteristic industry with economic advantages in the county. Policies to benefit the people have been introduced to encourage farmers to plant mulberry and raise silkworms, and adopt a development model of “enterprises + cooperatives + farmers” to drive the masses to increase their income and become rich. According to statistics, there are currently about 105,000 rural people in the county growing mulberry and raising silkworms. In 2021, local farmers’ income from raising silkworm cocoons will exceed 100 million yuan.
The joy of harvest is felt not only in various cocoon collection stations, but also in the busy Mengshan Silk Industrial Park. After the silkworm cocoons of the silkworm farmers were purchased by the park enterprises, they immediately began to undergo deep processing. Pure white cocoon silk is extracted from the cocoon, and multiple strands of cocoon silk are blended into raw silk. Silk reeling, silk weaving, printing and dyeing and other processes operate in parallel, and soft silk products are rotated by the machine. Formed by medium flow. It is understood that in recent years, Mengshan County has made great efforts to build a full cocoon and silk industry chain. After years of cultivation, the county’s Silk Industrial Park has developed into a Guangxi cocoon and silk full industry chain demonstration park. The park currently has 254 high-speed rapier looms. The annual output of real silk is more than 8 million meters, and the total output value of the cocoon and silk industry is expected to reach 3 billion yuan by the end of the “14th Five-Year Plan” period.
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