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note on sericulture fast

Answer 1

Sericulture:

It is the art and science of silkworm breeding for producing silks. The sericulture is an importan cottage industry, but is now the basis of large industries in China, Japan, India and some European countries, where the silkworm, Bombyx mori is ared on mulberry leaves on a mass scale to get raw silk from the cocoons of the caterpillars of the moth.

The eggs of the silkworm moth hatch out within 10 days into creamy white rapidly moving caterpillars. The latter feed voraciously on the fresh mulberry leaves and soon undergo a fast growth and are popularly referred to as silkworms.

Answer 2

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