Since ancient times, Zhejiang Jiaxing and Huzhou are known as “land of fish and rice” and “capital of Silk”. But in the recent years, Sericulturist is not so initiative in silkworm breeding. Amount of Mid-Autumn silkworm egg this year have a obvious decline.
This year, the growth of cocoon silk industry is optimistic, cocoon price hits a new high record. Raw silk prices broke through 300.000 yuan per ton.The sericulture production is more profitable,therefore the amount of Mid-Autumn Silkworm egg should increase. But according to the information from price monitoring center of Jiaxing and Huzhou on the 8th of Sep , the preliminary statistics show Huzhou Mid-Autumn Silkworm number is 67,492 PCs of silkworm egg paper, down 2,999 or 4.3%, compare to the same time last year; Jiaxing Mid-Autumn silkworm egg paper is 89361.2, 12801.3 or 12.53%less than last year.
Price monitoring center of Jiaxing City declare,though the amount of summer silkworm egg has a significant increase but the Mid-Autumn silkworm egg amount still have a significant decline like the spring.This is mainly caused by the influx of illegal silkworm from foreign market , and the quantity is increasing. According to estimation, inflows account for around 30% of the unified silkworm.
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Jiangsu cocoon silk industry Unveiled Strategic Alliance
Approved by the Provincial Science and Technology Department of Jiangsu Province, Cocoon Silk Industry has unveiled a strategic alliance for technical innovation. The alliance include three famous universities, three research institutes, as well as the top 10 key cocoon silk enterprises of the province.
Alliance will mainly target industrial technological innovation to form a new Interest Community for joint development,advantages complementary , benefit & risk-sharing .The formation of Alliance will reslove the problems of Cocoon Silk Industry in science and technology innovation in working alone, inefficiency, resources wastage, the research results not shareed, contribute to high concentration of industry innovation and integration of resources, establish an effective mechanism for the close link production and research,market-oriented, diversified investment and financing and to promote the transformation of research achievement, to promote the silk industry technological innovation and improvement.