HK textile and garments supplier helps pave way out of poverty

Hong Kong-headquartered textile and garments supplier Profits Fund Global Holding Ltd donated 333 hectares of mulberry trees to a county in Sichuan province, alleviating local poverty by developing organic silkworm growing, also known as sericulture.

In celebration of Tree Planting Day on March 12, executives from the clothing company and officials in Yilong county planted 3,000 mulberry trees in the newly established mulberry cultivation and silkworm rearing area.

PFGHL plans to plant more trees and develop organic sericulture this year in the village of Xiangtanzi in Yilong, a poor county located in Sichuan.