Sericulture

The present book entitled Sericulture: Processing, Cultivation and Marketing includes different aspects of Sericulture spread over in nineteen chapters, which covers introduction, moriculture, mulberry cultivation, pests and diseases of mulberry, propagation methods in mulberry, advanced micropropagation methods, irrigation, manuring and pruning, harvesting and storage of mulberry, botany of bombyx mori, morphology of bombyx mori, anatomy of bombyx mori, seed technology, by-products of sericulture, silk reeling, silkworm extension, Govt. schemes and subsidy, sericulture tools, appliances and machines, value addition to sericulture, silkworm marketing and economics and climatic factors for higher silk production. The text is substantiated with many figures and illustrations that will help better understanding of the text. The book, which is primarily intended for the undergraduate students of agriculture, will be of use to the postgraduate students of entomology and sericulture, fellow teachers, farmers, naturalists, policy makers and to the officials working in the department of agriculture, especially those involved in sericulture and also to the elite public who are interested in sericulture.