Xinfeng village in Hai'an is included on the list of the 10th group of national "One Village, One Product" demonstration villages and towns for its sericulture industry. [Photo/WeChat account: hafbwx]

The list of the 10th group of national "One Village, One Product" demonstration villages and towns was announced by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs on Nov 13.

Xinfeng village in Longzheng sub-district of Hai'an, a county-level city in Nantong, was included for its sericulture industry, the only village in Nantong chosen for that honor.

"One Village, One Product" means that within a certain area, taking a village as the basic unit and giving full play to the advantages of local resources, and vigorously promoting the construction of scale, standardization, branding and marketization, a village (or several villages) can own one (or several) leading products and industries with great market potential, distinct regional characteristics and high added value.

Xinfeng village is a demonstration base for large-scale, high-efficiency sericulture. It vigorously promotes a new model of silkworm rearing which integrates group, core base, consortium farm and silkworm raiser, to build a characteristic industry focusing on mulberry planation and silkworm rearing.

The village promotes electrified intelligent silkworm breeding, improves the technological content and labor efficiency of sericulture production through technologies such as mechanized mulberry cutting, cocoon selection and electric drying.

In addition, it also extends the industrial chain, such as using mulberry leaves to make mulberry tea and using residual leaves to feed sheep, directly bringing jobs to the area and increasing the incomes of more than 1,500 locals.