ECO-TOURISM: SHUNDE ECOLOGICAL PARK

Dike-pond farming

Silk Making Performance

Mulberry trees were grown on dikes. Leaves from trees were harvested seven to eight times a year. This offers the same number of generations of silkworms, which feed on the mulberry leaves, to be raised. This ensures high productivity in silk, and hence a large profits, which cannot be matched by rice cultivation alone. Wastes from silkworms were used to feed fish in the ponds. This is the so-called "mulberry-dike fish-pond system" (®á°ò³½¶í) , which is believed to have attained the maximum benefit in energy flow for environmental conserving agricultural production (Ruddle and Zhong, 1988).