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Team evaluates project on silkworm rearing

Staff Reporter

Krishnagiri: A team from Japan evaluated the final results of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Phase - III Project method of white silkworm rearing and mulberry production, which concludes in July.

The JICA project is implemented by the Central Silk Board in association with the Department of Sericulture and Japanese Scientists at Hosur and Krishnagiri, Pappireddipatti in Dharmapuri district and Sathyamangalam in Erode district from 2002-2007. Hybrid bivoltine white cocoons are produced under the scheme in the above blocks.

The team led by Chairman Tombi and comprising Mikoyi Masuda, Kayosi Kwakami, Yusakimori and Yanakawa inspected the seed farm at Avalapalli and Sericulture Training School at Hosur in Krishnagiri district. The team members also interacted with the farmers selected under the project in Krishnagiri district.

Mr. Tombi said that the JICA scheme had become a money-spinner in the district. More than 3,600 sericulture farmers from Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka have benefited under the scheme.

According to Assistant Director Sericulture Purushothaman, the district accounts for more than 20 per cent of the total area under sericulture in the State. Under the scheme, more than 200 sericulture farmers from Avadhanapatti, Avalantham and Kokkanur villages have taken up cultivation of bivoltine white cocoons in about 350 acres.

The production of white cocoons, which was 375 tonnes in 2002, has now touched 1,176 tonnes. The selected farmers were motivated to plant high yielding mulberry varieties and imparted training in mulberry cultivation and rearing. Japanese technology was adopted to ensure quality disease-free laying (DFL) and increased cocoon productivity.

The main objective of the project was to improve the quality of cocoon production and provide sustainable income to farmers.

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