It takes 600 kilograms of mulberry leaves to raise a silkworm egg.

Original title: Fengdu Chen Qingguo: it takes 1200 jin of mulberry leaves to raise a piece of silkworm eggs

"in previous years, my family always had a lot of mulberry leaves left in sericulture, but the aging of mulberry leaves in the next crop of sericulture was wasted. This year, I received technical help. After all the silkworms were picked in late autumn, the mulberry leaves were just finished, thus maximizing the benefits of sericulture." Recently, Chen Qingguo, a villager of Renhe Village, Huwei Town, Fengdu County, said.

Apply sufficient base fertilizer to mulberry trees

Chen Qingguo's family is mainly engaged in farming, in addition to farming, sericulture is the main economic income. However, in recent years, his sericulture has been listed as a poor household due to the lack of a careful plan, which has greatly reduced his income. At the beginning of this year, the county association of science and technology helped the village. After investigating and understanding the causes of poverty in his family, the team members decided to help them out of poverty through technology.

"We first investigated the mulberry planting situation in his family, accurately calculated the annual mulberry leaf yield, and then worked out a more suitable support plan for how many silkworm eggs can be raised." Help the team members say.

Sericulture is also the same as raising pigs and sheep, if you want to get good income, you must provide it with enough high-quality feed to ensure that it has three meals a day. To this end, the help team told him that mulberry leaves are the feed for silkworm babies. Only by protecting the mulberry tree well and making it flourish, can we raise more silkworms, raise silkworms well, and increase income.

Under the guidance of helping the team members, Chen Qingguo took advantage of the beginning of spring when mulberry trees sprouted and branched. He transported his family's livestock and poultry manure to the mulberry garden and gave sufficient fertilizer to mulberry trees to ensure adequate nutrition and lay the foundation for raising silkworm babies.

High profit from accurate calculation

As the saying goes, "the occasion of the year lies in spring". Raising spring silkworms is the most important thing in the whole year. "there are more than 900 mulberry trees of all sizes in your family, and it is estimated that you can produce 10, 000 jin of mulberry leaves in spring. According to the 1200 jin of mulberry leaves needed to raise a piece of silkworm eggs, your family can raise 8. 5 pieces of spring silkworm eggs." Help the team members say to him.

In the past, Chen Qingguo was worried that there were not enough mulberry leaves, so he raised no more than five spring silkworms a year, but now he is not sure if he wants to increase it to 8.5, but when he thinks of helping the team members to give him advice, he has no choice but to give it a try. Under his meticulous feeding, silkworm babies successfully completed the growth process of one to three sleeps. when they woke up from sleep, their appetite gradually increased, ate mulberry leaves very fast every time, and made a "rustling" sound like a light rain. He and his wife were busy picking mulberry leaves from morning till night.

Kung Fu lived up to his heart, watching the silkworm babies eat the last mouthful of mulberry leaves, the whole body transparent, experience told Chen Qingguo, this is a harbinger of silking cocoons. Looking back at his mulberry garden, he found that all the mulberry leaves on the tree had been picked, leaving only a few tender leaves on the top of the branch, which gave him a long sigh of relief.

"the calculation of helping the team members is really too accurate. I raised the next summer silkworm eggs, autumn silkworm eggs, and late autumn silkworm eggs according to the number calculated by them. in the whole year, the four crops of silkworms produced more than 3200 jin of cocoons, and the income from selling cocoons was about 30,000 yuan. compared with previous years, the income increased by more than 40%." Chen Qingguo said happily

Mulberry garden management and protection must be in place.

After the sale of the last season of late autumn cocoons, he helped the team members to continue to guide him to comprehensively transform the mulberry garden in terms of technology, eliminate aging mulberry trees in time, and replant a number of high-quality mulberry. And do a good job in ploughing the land, fertilizing and clearing the garden, pruning branches and so on.

"after the Beginning of Winter, I also spread lime paste on the tree trunk in time in accordance with the techniques taught by helping the team members, and carried out bud grafting on some grass mulberry. At the same time, sufficient base fertilizer is applied to ensure the fertility needed for jointing and branching of mulberry trees in spring. " Chen Qingguo said that he finally understands that only when the output of mulberry leaves goes up can the number and income of sericulture be increased, and there is hope for his family to get rid of poverty and take off its hat. (correspondent Li Dayuan)