SKILL ENHANCEMENT COURSE
PAPER 1 : SERTICULTURE TECHNOLOGY
POWER POINT PRESENTATION READING MATERIAL
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The success of a rearing depends in great measure, upon the care and skill bestowed in the earlier age’s viz., first and second ages. If the worms have been spoiled by carelessness or ignorance in the earlier ages
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Silkworm being a poikilotherm, the body temperature is changeable according to the environmental temperature. The physiology of silkworm viz., metabolic rate, activity of enzymes, nutrients conversion, assimilation
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Mulberry silkworm Bombyx mori is affected by a number of diseases caused by viruses, bacteria, fungi and protozoa. These diseases are known to occur in almost all the silkworm rearing areas of the world causing considerable damage to the silkworm cocoo
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Pests and diseases are important factors affecting the cocoon production. Many kinds of pests and diseases of silkworm, along with appropriate measures to control them, have been identified. Besides
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This group of insects belongs to the family Dermestidae of the order coleoptera. They often attack pupae and adult silkworms in the grainages, and mostly cause extensive damage to the stored cocoons. Presence has been reported in India
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