What is the price of silkworm cocoons in 2017?

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Hubei Daily (Reporter Wu Zhiyuan, Correspondent Jiang Xiuping, Intern Xie Xianzhe) These days, Huang Yifang, a farmer in Baimiaohe Township, Luotian County, is a little troubled: He wanted to expand the scale of sericulture this year, but found that silkworm seeds are particularly popular and it is difficult to buy them as the price has increased.

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Yesterday, news came from the provincial sericulture production conference that our province is expected to need 320,000 silkworm seeds this year, but currently it can provide less than 300,000.

Li Chuanyou, director of the Provincial Department of Agriculture's economic and production station, said that the reason why silkworm seeds are hard to find is that the price of silkworm cocoons has soared in the market.

Last year, the price of silkworm cocoons hit a record high, with the average price of 830 yuan per 50 kilograms, an increase of 25.76% from the previous year's 660 yuan, and 10.67% higher than the highest price in 2001.

The high price of silkworm cocoons directly benefits the silkworm farmers.

Huang Yifang's 5-acre mulberry garden produced more than 600 kilograms of cocoons last year and earned over 10,000 yuan.

The province's annual silkworm cocoon output is 10,500 tons, with an output value of 234 million yuan.

At present, the province has formed three major production areas in eastern Hubei, northern Hubei and southwestern Hubei. The output of silkworm cocoons is more than 1.5 million kilograms, and it has become one of the pillar industries of the local rural economy.

This year, the provincial government made it clear that the sericulture industry will be included in the scope of support for the province’s agricultural specialty sector.

It is planned to produce 13,000 tons of silkworm cocoons throughout the year and achieve revenue of 300 million yuan from silkworm cocoons.

Opportunities are in front of us Reporter Wu Zhiyuan Correspondent Li Chuanyou Jiang Xiuping intern Xie Xianzhe "After a long period of downturn and hesitation, the sericulture industry in our province has entered a new development period. During the 'Eleventh Five-Year Plan' period, Hubei sericulture will

It is a critical period for the industry to recover strongly, improve scale, improve quality, increase efficiency, and become bigger and stronger." Recently, the Provincial Department of Agriculture's investigation team conducted an in-depth investigation of the main sericulture producing areas in our province and reported to the Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government.

reached the above conclusion.

In recent years, the international and domestic cocoon and silk market has continued to improve, and cocoon prices have continued to run at high levels, making this traditional industry once again attract the attention of all walks of life.

The investigation team believes that the opportunities ahead include: domestic and international market conditions are good.

With the cancellation of my country's silk foreign trade quotas and the continuous expansion of domestic silk consumption, there has been a good situation in which the export price of raw silk, domestic sales price of raw silk and the price of dried and fresh cocoons have increased simultaneously.

Industry experts have analyzed that the purchase price of silkworm cocoons this year will continue to be at a high price of around 20 yuan/kg, with some room for growth.

During the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period, the cocoon and silk industry will remain stable, export trade will expand, and domestic consumption will increase significantly.

The quality and efficiency of industrial operations have been significantly improved.

In 2005, Huanggang City's total silkworm cocoon output was 9 million kilograms, with sales revenue of nearly 150 million yuan. Each of the 150,000 silkworm farmers' income increased by 1,000 yuan.

The net income from one mu of mulberry orchard is about 900 yuan, which is about 380 yuan higher than the average net income per mu of grain and oil crops.

That year, the city's cocoon and silk processing enterprises achieved an industrial added value of 450 million yuan and completed tax revenue of 21 million yuan.

The distribution of sericulture is further concentrated in advantageous areas.

A number of cocoon industry belts (districts) with large scale, high concentration, good comparative benefits and large scale development potential have been initially formed, namely: Eastern Hubei production areas, including Macheng, Luotian, Yingshan and other counties and cities; Northern Hubei production areas

Nanzhang County and Baokang County in the district; the southwestern Hubei production area includes Yuan'an, Dianjun and other counties.

The area of ??mulberry orchards in each county or city in the three major production areas is more than 50,000 acres, and silkworm cocoons have become a pillar industry of the local economy.

The industrialized operation of sericulture has started well and has strong development momentum.

During the "Tenth Five-Year Plan" period, a number of leading sericulture industrialization enterprises emerged that were connected to sericulture farmers and external consumer markets, such as Luotian County Runfeng Cocoon Silk Co., Ltd., Yingshan Hubei Mengsijia Green Health Products Co., Ltd., etc.

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The traditional sericulture industry in our province has begun to move from the small-scale farmer economy to the track of modern intensive management.

There are new breakthroughs in the scientific and technological progress of sericulture.

During the "Tenth Five-Year Plan" period, our province has successively bred new summer and autumn silkworm varieties "Xinhua × Jiuxue" and "895 × 892", which won the first prize of the Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award in 2005 and have been widely used in production.

The application coverage of small silkworm breeding and labor-saving sericulture technology has reached more than 40%, and the promotion of comprehensive prevention and control technology of silkworm diseases and pests has accelerated.

The application of new varieties and the promotion of new technologies have improved the overall level of the sericulture industry.

There are four hurdles to overcome to expand the sericulture industry. Reporter Wu Zhiyuan Correspondent Li Chuanyou Jiang Xiuping intern Xie Xianzhe Our province is the most suitable area for sericulture production determined by the national sericulture division. In history, Jingzhou satin, Tianmen silk, Mianyang silk, Yuan silk

Anyasi silk and Dangyang Rongsi silk have long been famous and sold at home and abroad.

However, experts from the Provincial Department of Agriculture who have studied cash crops pointed out that there are still "four hurdles" to overcome in order to achieve its past glory: corporate monopoly operations and disguised price-cutting acquisitions.

Silkworm cocoons are still an agricultural product that has not been fully liberalized and cannot be traded freely, leading to monopoly operations by some purchasing companies and disguised price reductions.

In 2005, the national silkworm cocoon purchase price ranking ranked our province last among the 10 key production areas.

In eastern Hubei, although the cocoon price has increased year by year, reaching 16.2 yuan/kg last year, it is 17% lower than the national average cocoon price of 19.52 yuan/kg, resulting in a loss of nearly 30 million yuan for silkworm farmers.