Vol. 11, Special Issue 12 (2022)

Author(s):
M Younus Wani, NA Ganie, KA Dar, MF Baqual and MR Mir

Abstract:
Sericulture is a cottage business based on agriculture with significant potential to provide jobs in both urban and rural locations. However, in order to make the sericulture sector sustainable, several processes need to be changed through the use of smart technology. Practically speaking, environmental factors that affect silkworm rearing are highly challenging to manage and a danger. The process of manually counting silkworm eggs by individually marking each one with a pen or marker. Poor pen quality can cause silkworm eggs to break, and grainage loss. Along with impairing accuracy, continual reckoning can result in headaches, eye fatigue, vertigo, and other symptoms. Manual procedures produce erroneous results and take a lot of time. The separation of the sexes during breeding programmes also requires a lot of labour and time. It is difficult to thoroughly research diapause, internal egg development, and to count, identify, and categorise healthy and ill silkworms. The safe and assured healthy growth of the silk worms is achieved with the aid of technological intervention, which is computer-based techniques such as Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI) approaches, and Image Processing Algorithms, fully equipped disease detecting and protection through automated spaying medicine system. The automated method will eliminate the need for additional labour and eliminate the possibility of human error. As a result, models must be developed to encourage the application of artificial intelligence in the sericulture industry, making it a more appealing and extremely lucrative sector.