Regional Sericultural Research Station, Central Silk Board, Government of India, Salem, 636017, Tamil Nadu Email: drnsakthivelcsb@gmail.com
Online published on 24 October, 2019.
This study evaluates coconut green leaves, coconut dry leaves, palm dry leaves, bamboo mountages (chandrike), rotary mountage and plastic collapsible mountage (n etrike) as alternate materials for coccon spinning of eri silk worm. The results revealed that rotary mountages were superior followed by bamboo chandrike and plastic collapsible mountage, in terms of the parameters resulting in its optimum rearing.
