Hefei Spring Co., Ltd., Anhui, “Not to Reduce Production”

Recently, it was learned from the agricultural department of Hefei City, Anhui Province that because of the higher prices of silkworms this year and the active resistance of the silkworm farmers to the disaster, there was a phenomenon of “reducing production without reducing income” in the spring silkworm harvest in Hefei City.

In the spring of this year, Hefei experienced low-temperature and dry weather, which was detrimental to the growth of small silkworms, and the slow growth of mulberry trees affected the supply of mulberry leaves. Sericultural farmers generally report that the survival rate of silkworms in spring is not high this year, resulting in a reduction of nearly 30% in cocoon production. "According to the weather, there will be a lot less cocoon harvest this spring," said Zhao Qihua, head of the Jinniu Sericulture Cooperative in Feixi County.

“The average purchase price of silkworm cocoon this spring is 36 yuan/kg, up to 40 yuan/kg, which is a rare high price in recent years.” Zhao Qihua told the author that the price of cocoon last year was only 26 yuan/kg on average. The price is already very high, but this year due to abnormal weather conditions, the output of the country's sericulture is not high, combined with a large amount of exports, sericulture prices have been relatively good in recent years, so the price of silkworms in spring this year rose a lot more than last year .

According to the analysis of the sericulture experts of the agricultural sector, this year the city's sericulture industry can enjoy a good harvest under adverse weather conditions, and it is inseparable from the actions of the silkworm farmers to carry out timely disaster recovery and protection and the diversified development of Mulberry Park.