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This course is organised as follows
No.
Blocks
Units
1
Scope of non-mulberry sericulture
1.
Introduction and spread of non-mulberry
sericulture
2.
Non-mulberry sericigenous insects
2
Commercially exploited
1.
Physical characteristics – Eri, tasar and
muga cocoons
2.
Commercial characteristics- Eri, tasar and
muga cocoons
3
Reeling technology for non-
1.
Reeling technology for non-mulberry silk
mulberry silk cocoons
cocoons
4
Spinning of Eri silk cocoons and
1.
Spinning of Eri silk cocoons
By-product utilization
2.
By-products of non-mulberry silk industry
and their utilization
5
Economics of non-mulberry silk
1.
Organization of non- mulberry silk reeling
reeling unit establishments
units
6
Conventional and non- conventional
1.
Use of conventional and non-conventional
energy, health and environmental
energy in silk Reeling industry
hazards
2.
Health and environmental hazards in silk
reeling
VI. Theory
BLOCK 1: Scope of non-mulberry sericulture
Unit 1:
Introduction and spread of non-mulberry sericulture
Introduction, spread of non-mulberry sericulture in world and India
and its utility to tribal people.
Unit 2:
Non-mulberry sericigenous insects
Different non-mulberry sericigenous insects - fagara silk, coan silk
and anaphe silk.
BLOCK 2: Commercially exploited non-mulberry silks
Unit 1:
Physical characteristics – Eri, tasar and muga cocoons
Cocoon colour, shape, size, compactness, peduncle and ring in respect
of Eri, tasar, muga, anaphe, fagara and coan silk cocoons.
Unit 2:
Commercial characteristics- Eri, tasar and muga cocoons
Cocoon weight, shell weight, shell percentage, filament length, denier,
kakame, non-breakable filament length, reelability, raw silk percentage
in respect of Eri, tasar, muga, anaphe, fagara and coan silk cocoons.