This specialized agricultural practice involves cultivating mulberry trees, feeding the leaves to silkworm caterpillars, and harvesting their cocoons. The process requires precise temperature and humidity control to ensure the larvae spin high-quality silk threads. Once the cocoons are fully formed, they are processed to extract the continuous silk filaments before the pupae can emerge and break the threads.
Heard on the job
The new climate control system in the rearing house will reduce cocoon mortality and improve our sericulture yields this season.
Also heard as
- silk farming