Recent Trends in Sericulture

Contents 1 Preface 1 Antheraea mylitta D Lepidoptera Saturiidae breeding practices in India before 21 centuryMZ Khan AK Saha and K Manda 2 Economic importance of bio-diversified insects affecting Mulberry leaf productionGhan Shyam Singh RK Khatri AK Sharma Babu Lal VP Sharma and Alok Gautam 3 Sericulture and silk industry present scenario opportunities and challengesJayaram H 4 Disease response of some elite mulberry genotypes under subtropical climatic regionManas Dev Maji Debojit Das Chinu Das Asish Ghosh and Arbinda Kumar Bajpai 5 Augmentation of tropical Tasar seed production through adopted seed rearing and its impacts on empowering tribals in ChattisgarhNK Bhatia MM Bhat and MA Khan 6 Ericulture a bio prospecting for supplementing livelihood environment and food security in rural and semi urban IndiaMonica Chaudhuri TK Biswas and AK Bajpai 7 Haemolymph biochemical constituents during course of Pupal diapause development in Daba Trivoltine Ecorace of Tropical Tasar Silkworm Antheraea mylitta DruryPK Mishra Dinesh Kumar Lily Jaiswal BMK Singh Jay Prakash Pandey Ashutosh Kumar SK Sharan and BC Prasad 8 Sericultural potentials under the radius of Central Sericultural Research and Training Institute Berhampore WBMS Khan AK Saha K Mandal NB Pal and AK Bajpai 9 Effect of soil application of micronutrients to Mulberry on the rearing performance of Bivoltine silkworm and the quality of cocoons in sub-tropical regionPC Bose and BB Bindroo 10 Effect of nitrogen phosphorus and potassium to mulberry on the rearing performance of bivoltine silkworm and the quality of cocoons in sub-tropical regionPC Bose and BB Bindroo 11 Ecoraces of Philosami ricini Donovan a new hope for Eri farmers of Wetern OrissaPurusottam Dash Priti Pragyan Roy and TV Rao 12 Diversity of Erisilkworm under Orisa climatological conditionR Sahu KV Shankar Rao and KC Brahma 13 Field Trial of Sericillin a new bed disinfectant on silkworm Bombyx Mori L under Eastern Ghat Highland Zone of OdishaKc Brahma R Sahu KV Shankar Rao and AK Bajpai 14 Role of trait selection for improving Daba Ecorace of Antheraea mylitta Drury during seed and commercial cropsR Manohar Reddy MK Sinha AK Srivastava Suresh Rai BMK Singh and BC Prasad 15 Haemolymph trehalose and fat body glycogen phosphorylase Inter relationship in silkworm Bombyx mori L Chronically exposed to flurideS Vidyunmala P Ramanjaneyulu S Smitha and A Vijaya Bhaskara Rao 16 Electron microscopic observation of five microsporidia infecting silkworm Bombyx moriLSK Gupta Z Hossain M Mohanan P Mitra K Mandal and AK Bajpai 17 Induction of sex limited yellow blood colour trait y in the popular multivoltine silkworm breed m12w for cost effective seed production in Eastern IndiaTK Biswas SK Das MZ Khan CR Sahu and AK Bajpai 18 Breeding practices of Bombyx mori L Lepidoptera Bombycidae at central sericultural research and training institute Berhampore WBMZ Khan AK Saha K Mandal and AK Bajpai 19 Farmers field school an effective extension tool for sustained sericulture prosperity in IndiaKR Maurya NK Bhatia H Chandra BBS Negi MM Bhat and MA KhanSilk the textile queen is one of the major commodities traded world wide India is one of the major contributors both in production and global silk trade Non mulberry silk and applied products are of outmost importance The muga silk of Assam is regarded as Pride of India on account of its fine texture durability tensile strength and amazing shimmering golden colour Tussar and Eri are two other prominent non mulberry silk varieties which have registered their eminence globallyThe demand for silk and allied products now registering new heights There is a wide gap between demand and supply of silk products No doubt with the aid of scientific and bio technological innovations much progress has been made in Indian sericulture But on the other hand silk industry is facing a host of challenges on account of diversification commercialization and economic viability India has ample scope for sericulture.…