{"id":13,"date":"2013-05-01T12:59:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T12:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silks.csb.gov.in\/aizawl\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2023-02-09T11:43:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T11:43:37","slug":"rearing-of-muga-silkworm","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/silks.csb.gov.in\/dhenkanal\/rearing-of-muga-silkworm\/","title":{"rendered":"Rearing of Muga Silkworm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Techniques of Rearing Silkworm<\/h1>\n

Rearing of Muga Silkworm<\/h4>\n

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Muga silk worm is multivoltine and 5-6 crops are raised in a year out of which two commercial crops (Jethua: May- June and katia: October- November), two pre-seed crops (Jarua: December- January and Aherua: June- July) and two seed crops (Chotua: February- March and Bhodia: July- August. Usually pre-seed and seed crops encounter adverse climatic condition resulting in heavy loss during the early stages due to environmental rigours, disease incidence and infestation of pests and predators.\n<\/p>\n

Package of practices<\/h5>\n

Prune 15-20% of the plants at 6 feet height 4 months prior to rearing for early stage and 5 months prior to rearing for late stage worms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Crop<\/th>\nTime of Pruning<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Early Stage Worms<\/td>\nLate Stage Worms <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aherua (June- July)<\/td>\n1st<\/sup>week of march<\/td>\n1st<\/sup>week of February<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bhodia (July- August)<\/td>\n1st<\/sup>week of April<\/td>\n1st<\/sup>week of March<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Katia (October- November)<\/td>\n1st<\/sup> and 2nd<\/sup>week of July<\/td>\n1st<\/sup> and 2nd<\/sup>week of June<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jarua (December- January)<\/td>\n1st<\/sup> week of September<\/td>\n1st<\/sup>week of August<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chotua (February- March)<\/td>\n1st<\/sup> and 2nd<\/sup>week of October<\/td>\n1st<\/sup> and 2nd<\/sup>week of September<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jethua (May- June)<\/td>\n1st<\/sup> week of December<\/td>\n1st<\/sup> week of November<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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  • Apply 30 kg FYM and N:P:K @ 44:62:17 g\/plant after pruning.<\/li>\n
  • Dust bleaching powder and lime @ 200 g\/m2 in the rearing plot one week before rearing.<\/li>\n
  • Consider only microscopically examined disease free eggs and incubate at 26\u00b11\u00b0C and 85\u00b15 % relative humidity.<\/li>\n
  • Use nylon net to protect the early stage worms from pests and predators.<\/li>\n
  • Brush newly hatched worms on 90 days old foliage (120 days old in winter) under nylon net in between 5 to 7 AM on the opposite side of the sun.<\/li>\n
  • Consider only 1-3 days hatched worms for rearing.<\/li>\n
  • Brush 2-3 dfls per plant through visual observation of the carrying capacity of the plant.<\/li>\n
  • During extreme weather conditions i.e. hailstorm, heavy rain, whirl wind etc., brush worms indoor for 2-3 days in twigs kept in wet sand or in bottles containing water.<\/li>\n
  • Wrap the tree trunk with oil coated polythene sheet to prevent the worms from crawling down and predators from climbing up the trees.<\/li>\n
  • Avoid frequent handling of worms.<\/li>\n
  • Use disinfected Chaloni for transfer of worms.<\/li>\n
  • Transfer only the healthy and uniformly mounted worms to new plants.<\/li>\n
  • Allow the worms to spin cocoons in bamboo box type mounts (capacity 1500 worms\/mount).<\/li>\n
  • Keep the mounts in semi dark, well aerated and rat proof room for better cocooning.<\/li>\n
  • Harvest cocoons only after completion of pupation (7th day in summer and 10th day in winter).<\/li>\n
  • Sort out good, flimsy, Uzi infested cocoons after harvesting.<\/li>\n
  • Select well formed good cocoons for seed production as well as for reeling purpose.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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    Source:<\/h5>\n
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      1. Package of practices of Muga, Eri and Mulberry Sericulture for North Eastern region of India, 2005, Central Muga Eri Research & Training Institute, Lahdoigarh, Jorhat, Assam.<\/p>\n

      2. Directory of Sericulture Technology 2008, Karnataka State Sericulture Research and Development Institute, Bangalore- 560 062.<\/p>\n

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      Techniques of Rearing Silkworm Rearing of Muga Silkworm Muga silk worm is multivoltine and 5-6 crops are raised in a year out of which two commercial crops (Jethua: May- June and katia: October- November), two pre-seed crops (Jarua: December- January and Aherua: June- July) and two seed crops (Chotua: February- March and Bhodia: July- August. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silks.csb.gov.in\/dhenkanal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silks.csb.gov.in\/dhenkanal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silks.csb.gov.in\/dhenkanal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silks.csb.gov.in\/dhenkanal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silks.csb.gov.in\/dhenkanal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/silks.csb.gov.in\/dhenkanal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":689,"href":"https:\/\/silks.csb.gov.in\/dhenkanal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silks.csb.gov.in\/dhenkanal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}