Nghe An: Early season silkworm food is in short supply, but has good prices
(Baonghean.vn) - Being a nutritious, delicious, and clean food, the first-season silkworms of the farmers in Khanh Son commune (Nam Dan) are priced and in high demand. Local people who grow mulberry and raise silkworms are quite excited.
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| The silkworm farming profession in Khanh Son commune has existed for a long time. Recently, people have switched from raising silkworms for cocoons to raising silkworms for food. Photo: Huy Thu |
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| To raise silkworms, one must grow mulberry. In recent times, households that still maintain the silkworm farming profession here have devoted a large area of alluvial land along the Lam River to growing mulberry. The old purebred mulberry variety has many green, soft leaves that are a good source of food for silkworms. People often pick mulberry and store it in their homes for silkworms to eat gradually. Photo: Huy Thu |
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| Currently, in Hamlet 4, Khanh Son Commune, there are dozens of households raising silkworms for food. People here mainly raise them individually or join two households to raise them together. People often use the area inside the house and the kitchen to raise silkworms. However, some households dedicate the entire area of their large houses to raise many silkworm trays. Photo: Huy Thu |
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| Ms. Nguyen Thi Hoe (53 years old) - a woman with experience in raising silkworms in the village said: The silkworm breed that families here are raising is the golden silkworm, which can withstand hot, humid weather, is less susceptible to disease, and has good product quality. Each day, depending on the age of the silkworm, they are fed from 3 to 6 times, all night long. Photo: Huy Thu |
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| In the process of raising silkworms, people have gained experience in care, especially creativity in using plastic nets to line the silkworm trays. After the silkworms have eaten all the mulberry leaves, they just need to lift the net to replace the tray, instead of having to pick up each silkworm as before, which was very time-consuming. Photo: Huy Thu |
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| According to the people, the weather at the beginning of this year's silkworm season was quite favorable for silkworm farming, and all the food silkworms grew well. Prolonged cold weather or erratic rain and sunshine all had negative effects on silkworm farming. Photo: Huy Thu |
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| Ms. Pham Thi Tuyet, a household that both raises silkworms and supplies silkworm seeds to local people, said: Since the 15th of the first lunar month, people here have started raising silkworms. Up to now, most of the silkworm raising households in the village have raised the second batch of silkworms, some have raised the third batch. Each household raises 1-3 egg cycles, which produces 4-12 silkworm trays. Each first batch of silkworms lasts about 25 days, when the weather is hot and sunny, the silkworms develop quickly, so it will take less time. Photo: Huy Thu |
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| After the "feeding" period, the silkworms turn pink and stop eating mulberry, which is the time when the silkworms "ripe", people will select them to sell as food. Silkworms are sold directly at home or shipped to other places... Photo: Huy Thu |
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| Golden silkworms in Khanh Son commune are nutritious, delicious, clean food that can be processed into many delicious and attractive dishes that are favored by locals and customers near and far. Currently, people are selling silkworms at a price of around 110,000 VND/kg. Customers come to their homes to buy silkworms as they "ripe", without having to take them to the market. At the beginning of the season, a household sold 12 baskets of silkworms, earning 7 million VND. Photo: Huy Thu |
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| In addition to raising silkworms for food, Khanh Son commune also has a silkworm raising cooperative with new silkworm and mulberry varieties. Here, silkworms are raised using new techniques, small silkworms are raised in air-conditioned rooms, large silkworms and above are raised on concrete floors without using trays like traditional silkworm raising. Photo: Huy Thu |
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| Silkworm farming with cocoon farming model has appeared in Khanh Son commune in recent years, promising to open up new prospects in exploiting land and labor potential, creating new products (cocoons, silk), contributing to increasing income for people. Photo: Huy Thu |
Early season silkworms in Khanh Son commune. Video. Huy Thu |
