Recently, more than 10 villagers were picking silkworm cocoons in the silkworm house of Li Yifang, a sericulture farmer in Shixing Village, Damiao Town, Tongliang District, Chongqing. Different from other white silkworm cocoons, the silkworm cocoons produced by Li Yifang’s family are golden in color and very eye-catching.
The author saw that on the bamboo shelves around her house, there were silkworm baskets filled with golden silkworm cocoons. Migrant workers stood or sat, picking off the silkworm cocoons one by one from the plastic folding clusters and putting them in. Spread out to dry.
“Everyone should pick from top to bottom along the ditch, pick gently, and don’t break the golden threads.” said Tian Shiming, a senior agronomist and sericulture expert of the District Old Science and Technology Association who is guiding farmers in the silkworm room to pick scientifically. , colored cocoons are an upgraded product of ordinary silkworm cocoons. They not only have high output and good quality, but also adapt to market needs and have significant economic benefits.
Li Yifang is a major sericulture farmer in Tongliang and a national model worker. How to achieve new breakthroughs in sericulture? With the help of the District Federation of Trade Unions and the District Old Science and Technology Association, she established a model worker innovation studio and took the lead in promoting and applying new technologies and achievements in sericulture throughout the district.
In late April this year, the District Old Science and Technology Association introduced colored silkworm seeds from the municipal sericulture research and breeding unit, and sent sericulture experts to strengthen guidance, promote co-breeding of small silkworms, labor-saving silkworm platforms and other technologies, and help solve problems in a timely manner Solve the problem of silkworm disease prevention and control.
“I raised 12 colorful cocoons this spring, but I didn’t have enough manpower, so I asked the farmer’s women in the neighborhood to help. Although there was a lot of rain after entering the third sleep, and the temperature changed greatly, sericulture experts came to the door every day to provide guidance on techniques and help. We overcame the breeding difficulties and finally achieved a bumper harvest. The output of each silkworm paper reached 53 kilograms, with uniform size and good quality.” Li Yifang said with a face full of joy.
Talking about the characteristics and advantages of colored silkworm cocoons, Tian Shiming said that colored silkworm cocoons are made by changing the genes of silkworms to make silkworms spin colorful silk of various colors – orange, pink, light yellow, light green and rust. The natural colored silk extracted from colored silkworm cocoons is soft and bright in color. Using this pure natural colored silk to make textiles is environmentally friendly like natural colored cotton and does not decolor, eliminating the need for printing and dyeing. The process reduces the pollution of silk printing and dyeing, and can avoid the harm to the human body caused by various chemical residues in fabric processing. The products are favored by high-end consumers at home and abroad.
In the disinfection pool outside Li Yifang’s house, several farm women are disinfecting spring silkworm gear in preparation for the upcoming new season of colorful cocoons.
Ask her what are the benefits of silkworm cocoon farming? Li Yifang informed that the price of one kilogram of colored cocoons is more than 10 yuan higher than that of ordinary white cocoons. A piece of colored cocoons on silkworm paper can be sold for more than 2,500 yuan, which is about 500 yuan more than ordinary silk cocoons, which is quite cost-effective. She calculated that 12 colorful cocoons in spring can earn nearly 50,000 yuan. If processed into silk quilts, the benefits will be even better.
Li Yifang succeeded in raising colorful cocoons in batches, attracting many sericulture farmers to visit and learn.
“Colored cocoon breeding is a big success, and we don’t have to worry about sales. If everyone wants to breed it, I will teach you how to raise it step by step, so that everyone can make money from sericulture.” Li Yifang said.
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