In late August, Hubei Lai Feng County Tian Zhixiang, a silkworm farmer in the village of Lao Si Village, calculated the harvest this year. His heart was delighted: "8 mu and more than six yuan and half a year, three yuan a year, and earn twenty thousand yuan a year." Planting mulberry and raising silkworms is not very laborable, but their income is not lower than that of migrant workers. In the coming year, I will make a big fuss about "silkworm".

Known as " Hometown of silkworm In the old town, many farmers, like Tian Zhixiang, went on the road of getting rich by planting mulberry and raising silkworms. This year, tens of thousands of farmers have been rearing silkworms, and 300 households earn more than 5000 yuan. The average selling price of fresh cocoons has reached 26 yuan / kg, a record high. The average income per mu of silkworm farmers is over 1000 yuan. Duan Xuming, a villager in Majiagou village, made 26 thousand yuan in selling cocoons this spring. The popularity of mulberry silkworms stimulated the enthusiasm of sericultural farmers. Yang Chunfang, a northwestern village car farmer who had been away from work for many years, resolutely returned home to plant mulberry and raise silkworms early this year. Standing in front of his house, he pointed to several hills opposite to the reporter and said, "with the money I earned over the past few years, I have transferred the hilltops to a block of sloping land. I plan to plant 100 mu of mulberry trees in winter and strive for a way to get rich at home."

To Zhu Bo is in the countryside. Mulberry silkworm Technician. Since this year, he has been busy in the mulberry garden and breeding room from morning till night, providing technical guidance and services to farmers from door to door. Many villagers also seek to solve technical problems and understand market information by telephone consultation and door-to-door consultation. Quotation 。

Seeing the enthusiasm of sericultural farmers was so high, they were glad to see him. He told reporters that the development of Lai Feng mulberry silkworm has gone through nearly 40 spring and Autumn Periods. During the heyday of planting mulberry and silkworm, basically every household planted mulberry and rearing silkworms, and the mulberry garden area of the county was over 30 thousand mu, producing nearly 10000 tons of fresh cocoons. But at the end of the last century, because of the low market prices, mulberry farmers, who had much less people, began to destroy the mulberry grain on a large scale. At the lowest point, only more than 3000 mu of mulberry garden was left in the whole county, and the more than 3000 mu mulberry garden was located in the paddy field of the old Si Village. {page_break}

"When young, raising silkworms to save money to marry a wife; later, having children, raising silkworms for their children to go to school; now they are old, raising silkworms to earn some money." Every time you are in a hurry, when you are cheap and lazy, for decades, the old silkworm farmers have always had a special feeling for silkworms.

"One mu of mulberry cow, ten mu of mulberry one building". The old Party committee and the government have always regarded the development of the silkworm industry as the main channel to increase farmers' income. Every year a team member is assigned to control the development of mulberry silkworms. The existing mulberry garden area has reached 6000 mu. In order to find ways to improve cocoon yield and fresh cocoon quality, the township leaders took technical personnel several times to study and inspect the advanced cocoon producing areas in Liuzhou, Luzhai and Chongqing Qianjiang, and invested 80 thousand yuan for silkworm farmers to buy silkworm cocoons by means of government subsidies and sericulture self raising methods. Square lattice The output of fresh cocoons produced by one mu of mulberry silkworm raised from 30 to 40 kg to 55 kg, and the quality of fresh cocoons has also been greatly improved.

In addition, the township also arranged special funds to employ technical personnel to guide silkworm farmers to cultivate mulberry silkworms and raise their enthusiasm. As cocoon prices continue to rise, the average household income will increase by more than 3000 yuan this year.

With the large number of young and middle-aged laborers going out, most of them are old people, children and women. How to let these people walk on the doorway to riches is an important topic in the new rural construction. The old township party committee and the government have led the villagers at home to develop the silkworm industry vigorously, build a mulberry garden in the mountains, expand the scale of farming, create an industry, enrich the people, and open up a good way to increase income for the villagers left behind in their homes.

The nest has been built, the future of Phoenix. This year, businessmen from Guangxi, Jiangsu and other places visited the township to inspect the development of silkworm industry, and praised the long and good quality of silkworm cocoons. Some foreign businessmen indicated that they would like to set up a deep processing enterprise for silk in old Si township.