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1. Can you really make money by raising silkworms in rural areas? How can you raise silkworms on a large scale?

Introduction: With the continuous improvement of my country's economy, people have more and more ways to make a fortune. In addition, villagers in rural areas not only raise livestock, but also raise silkworms. In recent years, many villagers in rural areas have been raising silkworms. In fact, to put it simply, raising silkworms in rural areas is a very good way to make a fortune. So is it really profitable to raise silkworms in rural areas? How to raise silkworms on a large scale? Let's learn about it with the editor below.

1: Raising silkworms is a way to get rich.

Because with the continuous development of my country's economic level, a comprehensive poverty alleviation plan has been basically realized, so people in rural areas will also find their own suitable ways to make a fortune according to favorable conditions. Raising silkworms in rural areas is a very good way to make a fortune, and it is also a very old breeding industry. Yu Ming, you can see that some of the fabrics of people's clothes are processed and made through silk, which has driven the development of my country's clothing industry to a certain extent, and silk has also promoted foreign trade. Many foreign countries need to import silk from China. Now we can see that many companies are also investing in silkworm rearing and making a series of breeding plans, and the prospects for silkworm rearing are also very good. The silk spit out by silkworms is very shiny and of very good quality. It is very popular with consumers, and the prospects for sericulture are also very promising, so raising silkworms in rural areas can really make money.

2: How to carry out large-scale breeding?

In fact, sericulture is a very good way to make money, but in order to raise silkworms well, you must first invest energy and money to learn how to raise silkworms, as well as understand some precautions and professional breeding methods, so that you can raise silkworms better and on a larger scale. In order to be able to carry out silkworm breeding on a larger scale, you must prepare a place for raising silkworms before raising them. Generally, you should choose a house with a flat and clean floor and good air permeability. Pay attention to installing mesh doors and windows, and prepare some tools and medicines for raising silkworms. You should also pay attention to disinfecting the place where you raise silkworms, clean the environment and garbage regularly, and pay attention to estimating the yield of mulberry leaves, so that you can determine the number of silkworms to be raised, etc.

Three: Summary.

In order to better expand the scale of breeding, it is necessary to understand some breeding skills and methods in advance in order to obtain certain economic benefits. I believe that many people have raised silkworms in rural areas before, but because they do not have professional skills and experience, they have not been able to raise silkworms. Therefore, in order to better breed silkworms, it is very necessary to understand some professional breeding methods and skills. In the above, the editor only briefly introduced some skills and methods. If you need specific information, you can search and learn about it on the Internet.

Raising silkworms in rural areas can really make money. If you want to raise silkworms on a large scale, you must first find a good site, and secondly, you must select young silkworms of good quality and breed, and continue to hatch them. After the scale is formed, you can continue to develop them.

Of course you can make money by raising silkworms in rural areas, but it depends on your own skills. If you have a large scale and good breeding technology, you can make money and become rich as long as you persist in doing so for a long time.

Of course you can make money. If you want to engage in large-scale breeding, you need a relatively large farm and sufficient start-up capital.

If you want to raise silkworms in rural areas, you must master the most basic technical skills. For large-scale breeding, you need professional technicians to do the breeding, and there must be someone to specialize in the breeding, otherwise you will not make any money.

2. Does anyone know the whole process of silkworm rearing? Can you tell me? Is silkworm rearing profitable? Is the survival rate high? How many months does it take to raise silkworms?

Hello, Luo Xiaolong, here are my answers to your questions:

The process includes egg, larva, adult, cocoon and moth.

As for profit, if you raise more mulberry silk, you can sell the silk for money. The retail price of the best mulberry silk is generally above 120 yuan. The price will vary depending on the quality of your silk and the place where you are from.

Survival rate: Based on my personal experience in raising silkworms, it is quite high.

Usually 3 times a year.

The above is my answer, which is definitely based on my own experience and experience of raising silkworms in Huaizhao.

Hope you will adopt it! ! ! !

3. The process from silkworm to silk

Silk is a specialty of our country and a product of the wisdom of our ancestors. China is recognized as the country of silk in the world. As early as the Western Han Dynasty, silk became an important link between our country and the outside world, and China has embarked on the world-famous silk road.

As a Chinese, silk should be of great significance to us. So how does the fine silk become gorgeous silk? Let's start with sericulture.

Domesticated silkworms appeared in my country during the Xia Dynasty. When the young silkworms have just hatched from the eggs, they must be treated with extreme care and must be fed with tender mulberry leaves. When changing mulberry leaves, they are moved with soft hairs. No need to be too careful because the silkworms are very fragile at this time, and if the mulberry leaves are too dry, the young silkworms will be left on the leaves during the change of mulberry leaves. In this way, the silkworms can be left to form cocoons, and then the cocoons can be processed into silk.

Step 1: Reeling (sao) silk

The original silk reeling method in my country was to soak the cocoons in heated water, and then stir them with a wooden stick. Legend has it that when Leizu's maids found the cocoons, they thought they were wild fruits, but they couldn't bite them no matter how hard they tried. At this time, a minister named Gonggu who passed by reminded them to boil them in water, but the boiled cocoons still could not be bitten. One of the maids anxiously stirred the cocoons in the earthenware jar with a wooden stick. When she pulled the stick out, she found many white silk threads like hair on the stick, and she told Leizu about this phenomenon.

Of course, this is just a legend, but the ancient silk reeling technology in my country was indeed like this. The silkworm pupae were taken out from the boiled cocoons, and the silk was drawn by hand and rolled on a silk basket, which became the raw material for weaving silk. The silk basket was an important prop for drawing silk. One cocoon could produce about one kilometer of silk, and several strands were combined to form raw silk.

Step 2: Simple weaving of the cover

After processing, raw silk is divided into warp and weft, which are intertwined according to a certain pattern to form silk fabrics. It is worth noting the difference between raw silk and cooked silk. Raw silk refers to the silk that is woven without dyeing and refining the warp and weft. It is dyed after weaving, which takes less time. Cooked silk is the silk that is woven after the warp and weft are dyed. It does not need to be dyed after the finished product.

Step 3: Dyeing and finishing

This step is relatively complicated, including refining, bleaching, dyeing, printing and finishing, etc. It has to be said that modern technology is not much different from ancient times, but in ancient times it was purely manual, and nowadays it has been mostly replaced by machines, but what has always been passed down is the ancient technology, which shows the wisdom of the ancient working people of our country.

The production of silk sounds complicated, but the Chinese people still inherit the ancient method of silk hand-making. Although some of them are called differently, the results are similar.

The methods mentioned before are inevitably somewhat procedural. In fact, these folk pure hand-made methods are more like a miniature of ancient Chinese quilt weaving, and they are easy to understand when explained.

First, from boiling the cocoons to rinsing, then peeling the cocoons and separating the cotton, drying the cotton, etc., you can understand it clearly with just a few pictures, which makes people sigh that the wisdom of our ancestors is really unfathomable.

The process from silkworm to silk

Speaking of silk, we are all familiar with it. For example, silk clothes, silk quilts, silk embroidery, silk products are soft and comfortable to use. So many people like them very much.

The following is an introduction to the process from silkworm to silk.

Silkworms feed on mulberry leaves and are also called mulberry silkworms. It is said that they were bred before the Xia Dynasty, and their history is very long. The silk spit out by a silkworm is as long as 1.5 kilometers. In ancient times, people wove silk into high-grade cloth, called silk. Therefore, mulberry silkworms have extremely high economic and medicinal value.

The life of a silkworm goes through the process of eggs, larvae, mature silkworms, cocoons and moths, which takes more than 50 days. Mulberry trees are deciduous trees. Mulberry leaves are egg-shaped and are the feed for silkworms. Gao Qi, a poet in the Ming Dynasty, said in his "Sericulture Lyrics": After sleeping for three times, silkworms eat a lot of leaves, and the branches of mulberry trees on the street are empty. That is to say, after the silkworms shed their skin for the third time, their appetite increases greatly, and they can eat several mulberry leaves a day.

According to people with many years of experience in silkworm rearing, a silkworm generally eats 0.4 to 0.6 kilograms of mulberry leaves in its lifetime.

Under normal feeding conditions, it takes 20 to 28 days for the larvae to hatch and eat mulberry leaves and spin silk cocoons. The cocoons are taken from the cocoons. The cocoons are transported to the silk reeling factory for processing. First, the cocoons are boiled, and then the silk is drawn by machine. This process is called reeling. The cocoons become silk threads.

The silk is bright and soft. After the raw silk is processed, it is divided into warp and weft, and they intersect according to certain rules to form silk fabrics. It is worth noting the difference between raw silk and cooked silk. Raw silk refers to the silk that is woven without dyeing and refining the warp and weft. It is dyed after weaving, which takes less time. Cooked silk is to dye the warp and weft before weaving, and it does not need to be dyed after the finished product. Then it forms silk or satin. Silk production workshop, silk shuttles on the loom. Careful and meticulous work. The silk products produced. Silk is processed into clothing.

The above is the whole process from silkworm to silk.

Speaking of silk

We are all too familiar with it

Such as silk clothes, silk quilts, silk embroidery

Silk products are soft and comfortable to use

Popular with the public



Then do you know

What about the journey from silkworm to silk?

Let us unravel its mystery bit by bit

Chongqing, as the main cocoon production area in my country

I believe many people were like me when they were young.

Have experience in raising silkworms



Although from hatching the egg to spinning silk into a hungry oak cocoon

The life journey of a silkworm is very short

But silk has a long history of more than 5,000 years in my country.

According to legend, silk was created in ancient times.

The dead thing that Huangdi's stupid wife Leizu accidentally discovered

In Xiping County, Henan Province

The tradition of worshipping Leizu is still preserved.

Silkworm is a metamorphosis insect

It will go through the stages of "egg, larva, pupa, and adult"

Four morphological processes

There are only 40 days left in life

But the silkworm spins silk from the beginning to the end

It takes about 50 hours to complete.

The silk spun out is about 1,500 meters long.



Why do silkworms produce silk?

Because silkworms feed on mulberry leaves

Mulberry leaves contain water, protein, sugar, fat and other ingredients.

After the silkworms eat mulberry leaves

Decomposed by digestion

Absorb protein and sugars from mulberry leaves

Silk protein

Silk protein re-forms into silk liquid

The silk liquid is spun by silkworms and solidified

It becomes silk

Therefore, silk is different from hemp fiber

Different from wool fiber

It is a biological protein

It is made entirely of the life of silkworms.



Why do silkworms spin silk and make cocoons?

The purpose of spinning silk is to protect itself

No harm from the outside world during the process of becoming a moth

Wrapping oneself in a cocoon

Silkworms have a good appetite

As long as the environment is right, you can eat day and night

The so-called "cannibalization" is not an exaggeration.

When the silkworm reaches the fifth instar, that is, after molting four times,

The silkworms start to eat less mulberry leaves and prepare to spin silk.



The silkworm farmers will then take out the cocoon grid frame

Convenient for silkworms to live in single rooms

Focus on spitting out cocoons of uniform size

If you pay attention

You will find that the silk-spinning of silkworms is very regular.

They always spin silk in the order of 8

Scientific research has found that this is related to the composition of silk



Silk is composed of sericin and fibroin

Silk is a protein

Sericin is used to fix silk

When the silkworm writes the word 8

Use sericin to fix the two ends of the silk

This forms a strong cocoon.

Preventing the cocoon from breaking out

After the cocoons are formed, can we collect them and spin the silk?

Don't worry, you still have to wait about 96 hours

Waiting for the silkworm to transform into a pupa after spinning its cocoon

Why can’t we collect cocoons before silkworms pupate?

Because the silkworm can only wait until it turns into a pupa

Its feet will disappear.

When drawing the thread

The silk will not be caught by the silkworm's feet

The quality of the extracted wire can be better

It is also easy to judge whether the cocoon has pupa

Pick up the cocoon and shake it gently

I could hear some banging noises going back and forth inside.

That means the pupation is complete.



Can I draw the thread now?

Uh, it needs to be baked again.

It takes about two weeks for the pupa to emerge from the cocoon.

But the factory usually takes 48 hours after the silkworm pupates.

Drying the cocoons

The purpose is to kill the silkworm pupae

One reason is that the pupa needs to breathe during its transformation into a moth.

The cocoons will not be dry enough.

Not conducive to preservation

Second, the moths that have completed their emergence will bite through the cocoon.

Damage to the quality of silk



Wait until drying is complete

Screen out inferior silkworm cocoons

Finally, I can start spinning.

This process is called silk reeling.

That is, soaking the cocoons in hot water to extract the silk.

Why take a hot bath?

We have talked about the composition of silk before: sericin and fibroin

After heating to 90~100℃

Sericin and silk will separate naturally.

This makes it easier to pull the thread



Finding the silk thread from the boiled cocoon

Wrap several strands of silk together and wrap them around the tool to draw the silk.

This process is very time-consuming if done manually.

Some netizens draw silk at home

It took about half an hour to make a cocoon.

That’s why the ancients said that illness is cured just like pulling out a thread.

The machine saves time, effort and is efficient

The extracted silk will be spun into silk thread again

Sent for dyeing in various colors

After washing and drying, it can be placed on the assembly line

Silk woven by hand or machine

Made into beautiful clothing