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5 Points about Sericulture

Answer 1

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• Sericulture is the process of cultivating silkworms and extracting silk from them.
• The caterpillars of the domestic silkmoth (also called ‘Bombyx mori’) are the most commonly used silkworm species in sericulture.
• Sericulture is a very important domestic industry in many countries. India and China are the world’s leading producers of silk.

1. The sericulture process follows three primary steps.:
2. Moriculture – the cultivation of mulberry leaves.
3. Silkworm rearing – promoting the growth of the silkworm.

• Silk reeling – the extraction of silk filaments from the silkworm cocoons.
• In sericulture, the silkworm rearing process begins with the laying of eggs by the female silk moth. Typically, 300-500 eggs are obtained from one female silk moth.

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Answer 2

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Sericulture is  agro and forest based cottage industry.

Sericulture, or silk farming, is the cultivation of silkworms to produce silk.

There are several commercial species of silkworms, Bombyx mori is the most widely used and intensively studied silkworm.

Silk was believed to have first been produced in China as early as the Neolithic Period.

Producing silk was a lengthy, complex process. As show in the illustrations below, men took responsibility for the mulberry trees, growing the only food silkworms.

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