The general revenues from silkworm breeding in Yizhou reached 1.2 billion yuan ($193.2 million) in the first half of this year.

Yizhou, a county-level city in Hechi, Guangxi, has the largest silkworm breeding area in the entire country, with mulberry fields covering an area of 330,000 mu (22,000 hectares). Some farmers in the county had a productive half-year so far.

Shi Zhongsheng, a large-scale silkworm raiser, living in Yizhou's Yongding village, has more than 40 mu of mulberry fields. He bred seven batches of grown silkworms in the first half of the year, harvesting more than 3.5 tons of fresh cocoon worth nearly 100,000 yuan based on 30 yuan/kg unit price.

Villagers process cocoon manually in Shi Zhongsheng's silkworm breeding farm. [Photo by Wei Jianping/hcwang.cn]

Edited by Mevlut Katik