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This book covers the problems of pest management in sericulture through research and development of different integrated pest management tactics. The book has been written primarily for students of sericulture and applied biology, but it can also be used with equal benefit by researchers, extension workers and educated farmers. The distribution of silkworm host plants and brief life cycle of all the commercially exploited silkworms in India have been described. ...
Indian silk industry has registered an impressive growth, both horizontal and vertical through planned approaches and emerged as the second largest producers of silk in the world only after China. Silkworm seed, which forms the basic foundation and backbone of sericulture industry, plays a decisive role in the production of silk. To meet the requirement of sericulture farmers to produce 15848 MT of raw silk or 139616 MT of reeling cocoons, the country requires ...