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There is an ancient proverb "planting mulberry and raising silkworms, a tree of mulberry leaves and a tree of money".
Turning the historical scroll of the mainland, the silkworm culture is one of the important and gorgeous chapters. There are many records about mulberry and silkworms, and there are also many poems left behind.
As early as in the "Book of Songs· Feng Feng · July": "The woman holds the basket, follows the micro line, and seeks the soft mulberry." The spring is late, and the harvest is Qiqi. It depicts the scene of ancient women collecting mulberry in the spring, reflecting the universality of sericulture in ancient times
In the Tang Dynasty, Meng Haoran's "Passing the Old Man's Village": "Open the Xuan noodle garden, talk about the wine." This poem shows the universality of mulberry hemp cultivation in rural life, and people's satisfaction with simple life.
Tao Yuanming of the Jin Dynasty "Returning to the Garden and Pastoral Home": "The dog barks in the deep alley, and the rooster cries and the mulberry tree is upside down. "By depicting the rooster crowing on a mulberry tree, it shows the tranquility and harmony of rural life.
Mulberry and silkworm cultivation is a traditional industry in the mainland, which has a history of thousands of years. The mainland has always been the world's largest silk producer, and all this is inseparable from the hard work of silkworm farmers. Like ours, there are mulberry trees on the relatively barren slopes. But since almost no one raises silkworms nowadays, those mulberry trees are basically in a state of self-destruction.
The price of silkworm cocoons is high, and it is not worrying about selling, but now there are fewer and fewer silkworm keepers, why is this?
One: Let's talk about the income of sericulture first
Raising a silkworm and forming a cocoon can be sold for about 1,800 to 2,500 yuan in the current market situation. Some people may say that raising silkworms does not require any input, just need to grow some mulberry leaves by themselves. And there are mulberry trees in many places, and almost no one picks them. But the fact is that farmers raise their own silkworms, and they don't regard mulberry leaves and labor as costs. Silkworm raising is a kind of agricultural activity that consumes extremely labor, and in today's rapidly rising labor costs, silkworm raising is really not cost-effective for farmers.
Two: Silkworm raising is very cumbersome
The silkworm is a very delicate insect. The mulberry leaves eaten by silkworms should not be stained with pesticides or anything like that. Like the mulberry leaves eaten by silkworm ants, there can not even be a little dew or dust. Mulberry leaves are planted in the wild, especially in summer, when it is either sun or rain, and it takes time to pick mulberry leaves. When it comes to the third and fourth instar silkworms, the amount of silkworm food is particularly large, picking mulberry leaves four or five times a day, and the physical strength is not good and cannot bear it at all.
Three: the advancement of industrialization has replaced the sericulture of farmers
There are many factories that are practicing fully industrialized sericulture, realizing "feed, workshop, and all-season" sericulture. There is no need for silkworm raisers or mulberry leaves. In the practice of industrial sericulture, sericulture people become sericulture workers. The difference between one word and one word is worlds apart. Industrialized silkworm raising no longer needs to follow the complicated process of traditional silkworm breeding: preparing silkworm tools, supplementing and urging green, collecting ants, first instar, head sleeping, feeding, third instar, fire, sleeping, mulberry breeding, testing, going up the mountain, camp cocoons and cocoons, etc., only need to be responsible for the feeding of feed.
Four: the price of silkworm cocoons is unstable
The instability of the price of silkworm cocoons is also one of the main reasons why many farmers are reluctant to raise silkworms. Many people say that farmers have a "swarm of bees" for breeding or planting. But farmers are very cautious about farming where prices are unstable. The instability of the price of silkworm cocoons in recent years is also the reason why many farmers are reluctant to raise silkworms, and even farmers in some traditional sericulture areas are no longer willing to raise silkworms.
With the disappearance of sericulture, industry has replaced tradition. Maybe in a few years, everyone will no longer remember that there was a profession, this profession is called "silkworm breeder"!