In 2021, the Sericulture Center of Yangcheng County, Shanxi Province aims at the development goal of “comprehensively realizing the modernization of the sericulture and Chinese herbal medicine industries”. Through technological innovation, it will create a modern sericulture industrial park and other measures to promote the upgrading of the industry and contribute to rural revitalization and The increase in farmers’ income has injected new vitality.
The sericulture industry is the leading industry that increases farmers’ income in Yangcheng County. In order to bring new vitality to the sericulture industry, the County Sericulture Center focuses on seeking breakthroughs in technological innovation, vigorously promotes mulberry garden mulching film covering technology, reduces weeding labor, improves soil water and fertilizer retention capacity, introduces Sichuan mulberry leaf harvesting technology, and improves mulberry harvesting technology. The efficiency of leaf harvesting has promoted the large-scale management of mulberry orchards in the county. Actively introduced 5 new silkworm varieties, implemented a new experimental model of original silkworm introduction, general silkworm fine test, and pilot test, accelerated the pace of variety upgrading, and promoted silkworms with excellent silk quality, strong disease resistance, and wide adaptability to the entire county. Varieties lay germplasm guarantee. On this basis, sericulture technicians also worked on a contract basis and went to 25 small silkworm concentrated co-breeding points and sericulture enterprises in the county to provide technical guidance, reduce labor intensity, improve production efficiency, and steadily increase the income of sericulture farmers.
In addition, the county’s sericulture center also insisted on driving project investment through project construction, investing 65 million yuan throughout the year to complete sericulture demonstration displays, sericulture deep processing, and mulberry production The construction of many key projects such as red wine processing, modern sericulture garden construction, mulberry leaf tea and mulberry deep processing, mulberry leaf tea processing, etc. Three projects are under construction: the sericulture technology incubation center, the sericulture standardized production base, and the sericulture cultural integration development demonstration park.
In 2021, Yangcheng sericulture culture was selected into the sixth batch of China’s important agricultural cultural heritage list; the “Yangcheng Silkworm Cocoon” geographical indication certification trademark was successfully registered; “City Mulberry Leaf Tea” was selected as one of the ten hot products of “Shanxi Medicinal Tea”; more than 2,080 acres of mulberry gardens were built in the county, more than 120 sericulture technology training sessions were carried out, 1.58 million kilograms of cocoons were produced throughout the year, and the income of silkworm farmers reached 89.95 million yuan. Compared with 2020, revenue increased by 34.61 million yuan
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