“Mulberry leaves are the food for silkworms. If the mulberry gardens are not well managed, raising silkworms to get rich will become an empty talk.” Recently, at the mulberry garden base for co-cultivating silkworms in Tongguan Village, Tongguan Town, Zhen’an County, Shaanxi Province, county characteristics Technical staff from the Industrial Development Center are instructing and training mulberry trees in pruning, whitewashing, soil loosening, and clearing weeds in the mulberry garden. It is a gratifying scene of slack farming turning into busy farming.
In order to ensure that the sericulture industry reaches a new level next year, the Zhenan County Characteristic Industry Development Center firmly seizes the development opportunities of the county government’s implementation of the rural revitalization strategy to vigorously support the agricultural industry, makes full use of the winter slack time, and strengthens In the winter scientific management work of mulberry gardens, on-site practical training was carried out to allow silkworm farmers to refine their planting techniques, and to implement the spirit of the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee with practical actions. Technical personnel went to various base towns to organize and mobilize silkworm farmers to strengthen mulberry orchard management. In the fields, technicians from the County Specialty Products Center trained sericulture farmers step by step on mulberry tree pruning, weeding and soil loosening, whitening and pest control, reclamation and fertilization, and other winter scientific management tasks, setting off a winter management boom in the sericulture industry.
So far, 50,000 acres of the county’s 55,000 acres of mulberry gardens have been pruned and pruned, 40,000 acres have been whitewashed and dewormed, and 35,000 acres have been reclaimed and fertilized. It is expected that the entire sericulture winter management work will be completed by the end of January. At the same time, 30 new disinfection pools and 35 new silkworm rooms with an area of more than 1,100 square meters have been built. The disinfection work of silkworm tools is also being carried out in an orderly manner.
While providing full “coverage” of service guidance for the county’s sericulture industry base, the cadres of the Zhen’an County Characteristic Industry Center have long adhered to the practical activity of “I do practical things for the masses” and went deep into the grassroots to implement the konjac and edible crops for the coming year. Development plans for fungi, tea, flue-cured tobacco and other characteristic industries will lay a solid foundation for increasing agricultural efficiency and increasing farmers’ income. By going deep into the front line of production, understanding the voices of the people, doing practical things for the people, solving problems, and spreading agricultural technology to thousands of households and fields, we can truly implement the spirit of the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee into our work. The masses work hard and take practical actions to implement the county’s “strategy of developing characteristic industries and promoting rural revitalization of the economy”.
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