Vol. 11, Special Issue 11 (2022)

Author(s):
NA Ganie, KA Dar, SZ Haque Rufaie, FI Qadri, MF Baqual and Afifa S Kamili

Abstract:
Sericulturists in Kashmir are facing dearth of rearing space which is responsible for cocoon crop loss at the terminal stage of rearing. To address this issue an attempt was made to design and develop a rearing hut model from the locally available material which will enable the farmers to conduct silkworm rearing on scientific lines thereby helping them to harvest a good cocoon crop. A comparative study of hut rearing and the normal rearing revealed that all the economic parameters were decisively better in hut rearing with an average cocoon weight of more than 2 gms.