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The Status of the Sericulture Industry and the Development Strategy (양잠산물 생산·판매 구조와 산업분야별 개선과제)

  • Kim, Kyung-Phil;Kwon, Tae-Jin
    • Journal of agriculture & life science
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    • v.45 no.2
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    • pp.135-145
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    • 2011
  • Recently, silk farming trends are changed from silk production to functional production because of a slump in only silk production. The 'Functional silk farming production promotion and assistant ACT', which has been enacted and effective since 2009, provides an environment to create the integrated functional sericulture production program. The purpose of this study is to derive the current industry status and the development strategy resulting in promoting and creating a new value-added industry. The main items to be improved in current sericulture industry are production infra and facilities, post-harvest storage technology, processing and marketing, sericulture farming products trading, exporting and merchandised promoting, farm management and farm income etc. Future sericulture industry should be focus on Mulberry production and Processing instead of silk farming only for a new valued added industry.

Sericulture Practices and Future Strategies under Present Scenario of Indian Subtropics

  • Singhal, B.K.;Dhar, Anil;Bindroo, B.B.;Bakshi, R.L.;Khan, M.A.
    • International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.107-115
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    • 2003
  • The present paper deals with the mulberry cultivation technology with package of practices for successful sericulture in Indian sub-tropics. The information on leaf nutritional quality in trained and untrained trees is provided. Besides, the current status of sericultural practices is discussed based on the problems faced by the industry and intensive field surveys undertaken in different areas of one of the most potential sericultural provinces.

Prevention of Diapause in Bivoltine Eggs of the Silkworm, Bombyx mori, L., through a Cross with the Race KS-10 as Male Parent

  • Mundkur, Rajendra;Murthy, Mallesha;Mahadevappa;Raghuraman, R.;Bongale, U.D.
    • International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.107-109
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    • 2004
  • The present investigation reports a phenomenon hitherto unknown in tropical sericulture, wherein dia-pause nature of bivoltine eggs is overcome through a cross with a non-diapausing race of silkworm, Bombyx mori, L. Eggs of bivoltine silkworm Bombyx mori, L. generally do not hatch under tropical conditions. To prevent diapause, they are subjected to acid treatment or low temperature hibernation scheduled. A race developed at KSSRDI is found to prevent the diapause nature of bivoltine eggs when crossed as male parent, without any acid treatment or hibernation schedule. This phenomenon is reported for the first time, being unique, opens up interesting area of research in silkworm genetics of commercial implications in the industry.

The Current Status and Prospect of Sericultural Byproduct Industry in China

  • Gui, Zhongzheng;Guo, Xijie;Fuan, Wu;Jianyi, Dai
    • International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.1-4
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    • 2003
  • Sericulture is a traditional agro-industry, which involves mulberry cultivation and silkworm rearing, has made great contributes to the human civilization. With the development of national economy and modem technology, mulberry and silkworm are being used to develop products with functionality besides the traditional cocoon production in China. In this paper, we brief the current developing situation of sericultural byproducts with functionality in the following aspects. (1) Functional products from silkworm larvae: silkworm powder, white muscardine silkworm, isolation and purification of anti-bacterial proteins from the larvae and production of medically valuable substances by Bombyx mori nuclear polyhedrosis virus (BmNPV) vector. (2) Utilization of silkworm feces: for pillow and for isolation of chlorophyll etc. (3) Production of valuable Chinese traditional medicine like Cordyceps sinensis with pupae, functional utilization of pupa protein and chitin. (4) Silk as additives to cosmetics, silk food and medical materials. (5) Functional utilization of mulberry: cultivation of edible fungus on mulberry shoots as medium, mulberry fruit drinks, mulberry tea, etc. The prospect of sericultural byproduct industry in China is also discussed.

Current status and future strategies for healing research using emotional insects (정서곤충을 활용한 치유 연구현황과 미래전략)

  • Kim, So-Yun;Song, Jeong-Hun;Ji, Sangmin;Kim, Wontae
    • Food Science and Industry
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    • v.55 no.2
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    • pp.140-153
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    • 2022
  • The purpose of this study is to organize research trends by analyzing healing studies using emotional insects, and to suggest future research directions. As a result, only six emotional insect species were used for healing purposes, and most of the age groups of the test subjects were elementary school students and the elderly. As for the type of research, field application of the healing program was dominant at 76.5%. Effectiveness verification was mainly conducted through questionnaires before and after participating in the healing program. In some cases, stress-related salivary hormones were used as indicators or clinical tests were conducted by medical staff. Based on the results of this analysis, future strategies such as finding new emotional insect species, developing various types of healing program models, and expanding and subdividing the target subjects were suggested to promote the growth of the healing industry using emotional insects in the future.

Present Situation and Prospects of Sericulture in China

  • Shen, Xing-Jia;Ye, Xia-Yu;Guo, Xi-Jie
    • International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.51-55
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    • 2006
  • Since 1970, China has become the biggest cocoon producer in the world, and made the highest historical record of cocoon output for 759,800 tons in 1995. However, in 1996 cocoon production reduced sharply to 470,900 tons. After a ten-year adjustment and reform, sericultural areas have shifted from developed regions to developing regions and from the east to the west. From 2000, the cocoon output has started to increase restoringly. By 2004 it recovered to 547,091 tons. With the development of market economy, sericulture management has been changed, including mulberry fields concentrated to the specializated households and cooperatives, cocoons produced in larger scale instead of individuals, Silkworm egg producing enterprises gradually changed into non-governmental joint-stock ones. The mechanism of market cocoon price has been gradually established. The management model of combination of trade, industry and agriculture is pushing and improving. It is the fruit of modern science and technology, especially sericultural basic research, that provides China's sericulture with the opportunity and vital force. China's sericulture, therefore, will continue to develop steadily in future.

The Strategy for the Development of Bio-Resources Utilizing Sericultural Products and Insects

  • Lee, Won-Chu;Kim, Iksoo
    • International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.95-102
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    • 2000
  • Experiments related to the field of sericulture started in the years 1900, in Korea. The sericultural experimental station in Korea was first organized among agricultural fields in Korea, indicating that sericulture in Korea was regarded as an important field of agriculture. Sericulture has been devoted to a great deal for the improvement of Korean economy during the past 100 years even under the coarse social circumstances caused particularly by the Korean War, However, the traditional Korean sericulture, aimed to produce silk yarn, was weakened, because of several reasons such as diminishment in silk consumption, increased labor charge in Korea, and so on. After this difficulty time, the Korean sericulture was revolutionized by shifting into functional sericulture from 1995, and the Korean sericulture now plays an important role for the improvement of human health. Mulberry tree, silkworm, and silk have a boundless potential to be developed as resources. We expect the know-how obtained through silkworm research would expand to the other insect research too. Thus, an area of entomological industry is hoped to prosper owing to insect research as well as sericulture. Mulberry tree is known to possess many bio-active substances, so it can be utilized as a resource for substitute medicine and a raw material for the functional food. In addition, an invention of genetically engineered mulberry variety, which will produce more bioactive substances, is expected. Silkworm is one of the most extensively studied insect organisms on the genome so far, Thus, silkworm is expected to be an "insect bio-factory", enabling mass-production of useful proteins by transformation, in which useful foreign genes are assimilated into silkworm. Silk can be transformed into several phases, because it possesses useful functional groups, which are sensitive to chemical reaction. Also, because silk fibrin itself is protein, it has a superior applicability as tissue membrane. Due to this usefulness, many researchers are now working on the silk as food, cosmetic, medical resource, and bioengineering resource, and even an expanded application is expected using silk in the future. Until now, the researches on insects were largely focused on the prevention of the damage caused by pest, instead of a beneficial aspect. However, insects are thought to be the fourth natural resource in the world, possessing unlimited potential as world resources in the near future. Therefore, our entomological research effort should be focused on the subject with potential for industrialization. Such subject includes selecting the insect species useful for environmental evaluation, construction of environment-friendly agricultural ecosystem, pollen mediation, pet, and advanced bio-resources.

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Current status and prospect of the sericulture industry in gyeongsangbukdo (경상북도 양잠산업의 현황과 전망)

  • Lee, Hi-Su;Gwak, Byeong-Sam;Kim, Ki-Jae
    • Journal of Sericultural and Entomological Science
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    • v.55 no.1
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    • pp.6-10
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    • 2019
  • Current status and prospect of sericultural industry in Gyeonsangbukdo were examined through history and business of institute, sericultural status of Gyeongsangbukdo, purchasing results, and prospects of Gyeongsangbukdo. Silkworm & Insect Business Center was established in 1911 as Sericultural training institute. Original silkworm 400 case, and Nuedongchunghacho inoculant 100 box will be spreaded. Sericultural farmer is 339 and 41.5 percent on the whole country in 2016. Ten thousand kilogram of cocoon was purchased by institute in 2016. Farm income was increased to 13.7 million won and purchased cocoon 9,875 kg in 2017. To activate sericulture Gyeongsangbukdo will support Hanbok Institute in 2019 and make sericultural complex.

An Integrated Approach in the Pest Management in Sericulture

  • Singh, R.N.;Saratchandra, Beera
    • International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.141-151
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    • 2002
  • The success of sericulture industry in India is mainly attributed to the well-planned annual sericultural activity and the systematic implementation of pest preventive and control measures. The insect spectrum of silkworm and its food plants is complex and plays a major role in limiting the production of silk. Insects cause extensive damage to plant whereas predators and parasites either kill the silkworm larvae or force them to spin flimsy cocoons. Unilateral control measure against this pest is mainly based on the use of synthetic organic insecticides. Though these approaches initially paid rich dividends, the undesirable consequences soon surfaced. Insecticide induced resurgence of gall midges, leafhopper, leaf roller, secondary pest out breaks and development of pest biotypes has led to realization of Integrated Pest Management in sericulture. Various components of IPM, viz. Host plant resistance, cultural practices, biological control, chemical control and integrating them at various technological levels have been studied. Sources of host plant resistance have been identified for some of the major insect pests. High yielding mulberry variety has been propagated and their resistances towards major pests have been recorded. Cultural practices like pruning, pollarding, judicious use of nitrogen, optimum spacing and weed management have preyed to be the powerful tools in containing pests. Natural control over the pest population build- up exerted by the wide range of parasitoids, predators and pathogens has been well documented with identification of natural enemies and studies on their potential. Augmentation, through inoculation or inundative releases of parasitic arthropods, is the most direct way of increasing the numbers of these beneficials in sericulture.

In vitro screening of anti-skin aging and antioxidant properties of aqueous/solvent extracts from distinctive stages of silkworm (Bombyx mori L.) pupae

  • Rahul, Kamidi;Kweon, HaeYong;Kim, Hyun-Bok;Lee, Ji Hae
    • International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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    • v.45 no.1
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    • pp.1-11
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    • 2022
  • Silkworm pupae, a by-product of the silk industry are known to be valuable resource of nutrients for humans as well as animals besides encompassing diverse bioactive constituents. However, there is a paucity of knowledge on their role in amelioration of oxidative stress and anti-skin aging properties. In the present study, we evaluated the inhibitory effect of aqueous as well as ethanolic (30% and 70%) extracts from distinct stages of male and female silkworm pupae belonging to two silkworm varieties on skin aging-related enzymes. The activities of collagenase, elastase and tyrosinase were effectively inhibited by 70% ethanolic silkworm pupal extracts (SPE), followed by 30% with aqueous extracts exhibiting meager inhibitory potential. SPE were also investigated for their antioxidant activity in oxidative-stressed murine fibroblasts (L929). The intracellular ROS and lipid peroxidation induced by tert-butyl hydroperoxide (t-BHP) in fibroblasts was better attenuated by pre treatment with ethanolic (30%) and aqueous extracts, respectively. The safety of the extracts was determined by studying their effect on fibroblast cell viability and it was found that none of the extracts were cytotoxic. Our findings indicate the potential utility of SPE as anti-aging components in cosmeceuticals.