And, furthermore, from the same article some good nuggets of info (simple interpretation from the Vietnamese article)…
Output prospects
The golden time of the mound Mulberry was almost 30 years ago, almost every home also planted mulberry, at least 1-2ha, many growers had when up to hundreds of hectares. Only the period between 1987-1992, each year in Dien Quang commune, it is almost 20 tons, in the village to clear the space for silk weaving. However, the period 1993 to 1996 the area of planting strawberry is gradually narrowed. Nowadays, the go floating has only one household to plant the mulberry but not silk woven, but mainly silkworm... Sales.
Mr. Phan Tín – Deputy director of Dien Quang Agricultural COOPERATIVE, said that in order to wake up the village, HTX has collaborated with the PPC conducting land delivery for farmers to grow mulberry. Before the eyes, it will be a 3ha pilot, scheduled to grow more than 20ha, aiming to recover 150ha in the next two years. Although they planted more than three months, most of the strawberry trees have grown in good green, promising high-yield harvests. "Each participant of the project will be closed a pump well and mounted a power meter to get the job of strawberry juice. In addition, the HTX also supports each strawberry pole 20kg stool NPK. The Central Mulberry Strawberry Company supports free GQ2 varieties; When the company has continued to support Nong Nia, while buying product targets with minimum price of 145 thousand VND/kg cocoon, average 5 poles will be 30kg cocoon/litter. According to Mr. Phan Tín, with the way farmers have only public care and raising silkworm eggs, the same egg is supplied by the HTX when there is a cocoon to subtract the price or the mechanism of support. Striving from here until the end of the year will have 1-2 generations of the first (a silkworm 22-25 days), when the harvest is stable every year people will be around 7-8 fussy.
The comparison shows that the effect of strawberry trees is 5 – 10 times higher in color and rice. Especially, tied to environmental protection for non-pesticides. Not to mention, the strawberry tree has a large effect in protecting the land, each season floods the strawberry tree lying down to hug soil and accumulate alluvial, preventing avalanche. Mr. Le Thai VU – Chairman of BOD, CEO of Hoi An Silk Joint stock company, in addition to the determination of local government, price, market output products guarantee will be a good base for the farming area Silkworm electric desk in particular As well as the Renaissance Quang Nam. The last time, besides the Organization for the residents to visit, learn the experience of farming mulberry in Bao Loc (Lam Dong), the Enterprise has also collaborated with the provincial survey of raw materials in Dai Loc District , Duy Xuyen, Dien Pong. "In the first case, the unit will coordinate with the government, the people of Dien Quang commune as pilot in the 5ha floating go. After the evaluation, the results will continue to expand into multiple zones. Today's advantage is that in addition to having many new varieties for high productivity as well as modern silkworm formulations, we have also collaborated with the Central Silk Research Center to transfer the technology to the way of raising silkworm. , planting the bride for her. In particular, the enterprise will also be responsible for the output, so I trust the prospect of restoring this profession is great "-Mr. Vu said
