For extra peace of mind, rub the silk between your fingers for a little while. The only method to identify a Muga silk from other natural silk is by using a certain kind of microscope. However, the strict quality check at the time of production and the GI status ensures that you only hold an original product in your hand.
Today, the cost of Muga silk is so high that for a middle-class woman in Assam it has become a prized possession, just as her gold ornaments. In short, there are four types of natural silk produced around the world: Mulberry silk, Eri silk, Tasar silk and Muga silk. Muga silk cloth is very largely used by the Assamese women as mekhela, riha-sador sarees. Eri spun silk is used for dress materials and the coarse variety for making scarves, chaddar, shawls and quilts. Trimoulters silk yarn is used as package material in pencil industry and for making talcum powder puffs.
While in ancient Rome Coan silk was widely used, today fabric production is limited. Silk is much more expensive due to the high production costs and high quality. You need to know how to distinguish between an original piece of silk woven with organic means and fake pieces of silk synthetically made with a bait. Skip to content Popular. Manipur Season: August- September. Muga silkworm Antheraea assama : It also belongs to the family saturnidae and semi-domesticated in nature.
Meghalaya Apply 0. Kerala Castor plant belongs to the family Euphorbiaceae and is a primary food plant of eri silkworm. Provide a shed over the bed to protect from the direct sun light and hailstorm.
Tamil Nadu of Assam. An experiment was carried out to rear the eri silkworms on the leaves of Tapioca as the primary food plants during autumn season in Assam. Maharashtra Details of the completed and ongoing projects can be obtained. Subsequent pollarding is to be done after the interval of years. Hatchlings of the eri-silkworm Philosamia cynthia ricini , one of the leaf-feeding insects, may be reared to the adult stage on an artificial diet, named as a semi-synthetic diet, which does not contain any extracts from leaves of food plants such as Ricinus communis, Aylanthus glandulosa etc.
Eri silkworm Attacus ricinni : D. Attacus rechinii. Eri silkworm feeds primarily on Castor leaves Ricinus communis Linn. Spray 0. Arunachal Pradesh Manihot esculenta , a host plant of eri silkworm, and the farmer has knowledge on sericulture as the way of life. The silkworms are reared out door and as such are exposed to vagaries of nature. Eri silkworm pupae can be harvested to provide a cost effective alternative edible oil that can be used to nutritional advantage in the food and feed industry.
Carry out hoeing and weeding whenever required. Sarmah, Shri B. Bombyx mori, the domestic silk moth, is an insect from the moth family Bombycidae. It is the closest relative of Bombyx mandarina, the wild silk moth. The silkworm is the larva or caterpillar of a silk moth. Therefore, several research projects have focused on rearing technique, machine and appliance development, textile, eri food and cosmetic products including exploitation of eri rearing waste.
However , the degree of preference with regard to the acceptance of the host, growth of the worm, development and cocoon yield vary. Agronomical practice. Land should be pulverized by times ploughing followed by cross ploughing to a depth of cm. Remove the weeds, make proper tilt and level for facilitating good root penetration. For castor cultivation pit system of plantation is followed with size of 20x25x25 cm pits are to be prepared maintaining 1x1 m spacing. Apply 1 kg FYM in each pit as basal dose and mixed properly with soil.
Two seeds per pit at a depth of 2. Germination takes place after days and only one healthy seedling per pit has to be allowed for vigorous growth after germination. Similarly apply only 30 kg Nitrogen per hectare as the 2nd dose after 3 moths of the application of the first dose i. Since castor plant is very sensitive to weeds, regular weeding and inter-culture operation like ploughing, light hoeing etc.
Carry out hoeing and weeding 3 to 4 times in a year and before application of fertilizer for better leaf yield. Remove floral primordial for better vegetative growth. Leaf can be harvested four times in a year in Northeastern region from same plantation. Disease management.
Some common diseases of castor plant, resulting considerable loss in foliage and their management strategies are as follows:. Leaves of young plants are affected with yellow or brown concentric brown patches. In stem, dull green round patch appears on cotyledons and spreads to the base.
Avoid sowing in low lying areas. Appearance of irregular light brown spots on leaves, Inflorescence and capsules develop sooty growth, premature defoliation. Wilting plants, dropping leaves, marginal necrosis leading to death of plants, root degeneration. Practice crop rotation, avoid continuous cultivation. Mechanical control through plucking and subsequent burning of diseased leaves. In severe infection spray 0. Pest Management. Mechanical control through plucking and subsequent burning of infected leaves or Spray 0.
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