Mulberry planting and processing is quietly developing a mulberry tree to find a way to get rich.

In the mulberry fields that have just been moisturized by the spring rain, the mulberry trees that are taller than people look energetic and lush; under the green mulberry leaves, the red mulberries are covered with branches, emitting an attractive fragrance and coveted. Recently, the reporter walked into the fruit mulberry planting farm of the Spring Source vegetable and Fruit planting Co-operative in Sihui City, which is located in Xinwu Village, Jianggu Town, and saw a large number of mulberries covered with mulberry branches, which is ushering in the best time for picking.

Wu Caigen, head of the cooperative, told the reporter happily that these mulberry trees were the first batch of fruit mulberry she planted three years ago, and now they are growing well, and the yield per mu is higher and higher every year. "after planting mulberry trees, they can produce fruit in the first year, and they can be harvested twice a year. Three years later, they enter a comprehensive harvest period and can be harvested for 30 consecutive years. In addition to sustained high yield, income-generating channels are also very wide, mulberry, mulberry leaves, mulberry roots, mulberry branches and so on can be sold for money. " Ecological planting breeds good green products

Since 2013, Wu Caigen has been developing mulberry planting in Sihui Jianggu Town and Luoding City, Yunfu City, taking the form of "cooperative + base + peasant household" to operate. "at present, our cooperative has nearly 3000 mu of mulberry land in Luoding and more than 100 mu of fruit mulberry in river valleys." Wu Caigen told reporters that at present, the scale of the cooperative is still further expanding, and more than 200 mu of planting bases have been opened up in the Sihui River Valley, and it is planned to build a 400 mu sericulture planting demonstration base this year, and use the next three years or so to create a scale of 5000 mu of sericulture.

Will it be difficult to take care of such a large planting scale? Wu Caigen shook his head confidently. According to her, mulberry itself is a kind of plant that is resistant to cold, drought and waterlogging. New seedlings can sprout after a month and a half, and their daily management is much easier and simpler than other crops. "the usual thing is to loosen the mulberry fields, do some topdressing work, and prune the branches and leaves once a year." Wu Caigen also said that at present, all mulberry trees planted in the cooperative adopt the method of ecological planting, that is, diluted vinegar water is used instead of pesticides to kill insects, and organic fertilizers such as peanut bran and cow and sheep manure are used to ensure that the mulberry quality is ecological and natural.

The whole body is a treasure. Deep processing broadens the value.

In addition to being easy to manage, the economic value of mulberry is also very high. Wu Caigen told reporters that mulberry trees are covered with treasures, and not only mulberry, mulberry leaves, roots and branches of mulberry trees, and even plants parasitic on mulberry trees (that is, "mulberry parasites"), but also wood borer on mulberry trees can be eaten or used medicinally.

In order to give full play to the maximum utilization value of mulberry, starting from the development of mulberry planting, Wu Caigen simultaneously opened up a road of deep processing, relying on his own brand of "A Cai Mulberry Field", to put mulberry deeply processed products on the market, in order to maximize the profits of crops. According to her, at present, their cooperative has a processing plant in the sericulture planting base in Luoding, which can produce mulberry twig slices, mulberry root slices, mulberry tea, silkworm sand tea, silk quilt and other products. In addition, they also cooperate with a beverage processing factory in Guangzhou to produce mulberry juice, mulberry wine and other products.

After deep processing, the categories of mulberry products become more and more, and the economic value of mulberry products is naturally higher than before, and there are many kinds of mulberry products, which make them more competitive in the market. Wu Caigen also said that in recent years, cooperatives have also made use of the geographical advantages of the four societies adjacent to Guangzhou, Foshan and other developed cities in the Pearl River Delta to actively promote sericulture products to these cities and further broaden their profit margins.

Integrate into sightseeing and extend the industrial chain

In recent years, the tourism agriculture model of integrating tourism elements into agricultural development has made great achievements in various places, which has also made Wu Caigen smell business opportunities. Last year, relying on the sightseeing picking garden of more than 100 mu of mulberry in Sihui, Wu Caigen held the first Mulberry Festival, which attracted many tourists from our city and other cities in the Pearl River Delta to taste fresh, and the response was very good. In early April this year, Wu Caigen planned to continue the mulberry festival and increase the picnic section, while displaying and selling a series of mulberry products at the scene to continue to polish the mulberry brand with the tourism mode of "tour, purchase and entertainment". "in the next few years, I will also improve accommodation, amusement facilities and other facilities in the planting base, and build it into an ecological farm covering functions such as eating, drinking and playing, planting experience, popular science research, and so on."

Wu Caigen said: in the past, when growing mulberry and raising silkworms, we followed the Silk Road, but now we grow mulberry and raise people on a healthy road. "as the concept of health preservation becomes more and more popular, mulberry products will enter more families. In the future, I hope to continue to strengthen the mulberry industry and turn it into a representative of new characteristic agriculture in Sihui, so that more people will be exposed to this kind of green and healthy products. "