Local Industry: Diversified Utilization Of Silkworm In Hubei Yingshan Fali

On April 26, the "Yipin Mulberry" Fruit Mulberry Garden in Zhoufan Village, Shitouzui Town, Yingshan County, Hubei Province was bustling. The annual Mulberry Picking Festival opened to welcome guests, attracting hundreds of tourists to come to pick mulberry.

The mulberry orchard is located in the scenic belt of West River 18 Bay in Yingshan County, covering an area of more than 600 mu. In the picking garden, tourists are in small groups. They take the basket to experience the fun of picking while tasting. From time to time, visitors' cheerful laughter comes from the mulberry garden. Several popular webcasters set up a live broadcast room in the park to open the "immersive" live broadcast of "sightseeing+experience+bringing goods" and interact with netizens enthusiastically while shopping.

It is reported that Zhoufan Village, relying on the local market, has continuously held the mulberry picking festival and the live broadcast with goods festival. This year is the ninth. The whole activity will last until the end of May. Tourists can not only pick mulberry, but also taste mulberry feast, taste mulberry leaf tea, look after silkworm shed, visit silk museum, and intuitively experience silkworm culture.

Yingshan has a long history of planting mulberry and sericulture. "Silkworm spinning" is one of Yingshan's "three treasures". The silkworm cocoon and silk textile industry used to be local traditional competitive industries. In recent years, with the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy and the rise of rural tourism, Yingshan has made great efforts to integrate the business form of mulberry tourism, build the sericulture base into a new tourist clocking place, and make it a new choice for citizens to visit mulberry gardens, pick mulberry fruits, taste mulberry tea, and experience silkworm culture in rural tourism. The county has introduced relevant safeguard measures to promote the transformation and upgrading of the sericulture industry, and awarded and compensated new sericulture bases. Encourage enterprises to build scientific research cooperation platforms, hire expert teams to carry out technical research, promote the innovation and application of advanced technologies, gradually extend the traditional sericulture industry to cultural tourism, health care, food processing, health care and other fields, achieve "multi legged walking", and strive to build a diversified and multi-level modern sericulture industry chain.

On the same day, more than 80 representatives from relevant municipal and county agricultural and rural bureaus, competent departments of labor-saving and efficient sericulture demonstration projects, and specialized sericulture cooperatives came to Yingshan to conduct field research on local mulberry demonstration bases and diversified sericulture processing enterprises.

(Source: Edong Evening News)