The first batch of spring cocoons in Tianyuan Town of Yunnan Province had a bumper harvest.

The first batch of spring cocoons in Pastoral Town had a bumper harvest.

The first batch of spring cocoons in Pastoral Town had a bumper harvest.

On June 3, Tianyuan Town opened a scale to buy the first batch of spring silkworm cocoons. The snow-white and round cocoons are big and plump and of high texture, which has won repeated praises from manufacturers. The average selling price of fresh cocoons reached 21.6 yuan per kilogram, which made the masses happy.

On the same day, a total of 3844.3 kilograms of cocoons were sold by 173households, with a total income of 82333 yuan, of which 3767.4 kilograms of fresh cocoons were sold, accounting for 98 percent of the total.

This year is the second year of growing mulberry in the town. The first batch of spring silkworms, the town distributed a total of 136 silkworm eggs to farmers, planned to be divided into two batches of acquisition, this acquisition is the first batch, and the second batch will be acquired in six days. Although we encountered dry weather in the early part of this year, through the practice and exploration of last year, the broad masses are full of confidence in the development of sericulture, coupled with the fact that town and village cadres come to people to carry out technical training and services. the management, protection and breeding level of the whole sericulture industry has been greatly improved, and sericulture income has not decreased but increased a lot. Han Shaohui, a member of the top three group in Youwen Village, raised 2.33 spring silkworms, each of which sold 43.8kg of fresh cocoons, earning 2213 yuan on the same day. Lao Han said: "according to the growth trend of the mulberry garden, at least five batches can be raised this year, with an income of at least more than 10,000 yuan. Next year, when the mulberry garden enters a high-yield period, the number of sericulture will increase and the income will increase."

At the cocoon exchange station, town and village cadres are busy helping the masses with graded checks, hoping that every family can get value for money, while farmers compete secretly to see whose sericulture is the best and make the most money, and everyone's faces are covered with the joy and hope of a bumper harvest.