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Sericulture is agro based industry with its industrial super structure and low gestation period. It has rural base with equal opportunity to all age, gender, education and economic status human society. This industry is environmental ecofriendly and does not interfere with any agricultural activity; rather it provides supports to agriculture, dairy, fisheries, live stock culture, organic farming in rural area. This is an attempt to provide information on sericulture industry, silk production, history of silk filament and all related components like silkworm rearing, host plant culture, extraction of silk and management of diseases to ensure quality production of silk. The global mulberry raw silk production largely depends on superior silkworm hybrids, improved rearing technology, nutritious mulberry leaf (feed to silkworm), disease free environment for rearing and improved cocoon reeling system for higher quality raw silk production. Cocoon quality contributes to a great extent in cocoon productivity and raw silk production. Various chapters under the article deal with techniques related to qualitative and quantitative improvement in silk cocoons production, besides scientific principles behind the sericulture in general and silkworm in particular. Recently, biotechnology has opened up new dimension in sericulture industry in general and silkworm breeding in particular. Synthesis of disease resistant silkworm genotypes through gene manipulation has been attempted in recent past.

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The authors are thankful to the Central Silk Board, Bangalore, India, for providing the opportunity to learn and understand the core issues related to sericulture industry in general and Indian sericulture in particular, which has helped us in writing this manuscript.

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  1. Ex-Scientist, Central Silk Board, 21-A, Deshmeshpuri, Indira Gandhi Marg, Niranjanpur, Dehradun, 248171, Uttarakhand, India

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  2. Regional Sericultural Research Station, Central Silk Board, Miransahib, Jammu, 181101, Jammu and Kashmir, India

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Chauhan, T.P.S., Tayal, M.K. (2017). Mulberry Sericulture. In: Omkar (eds) Industrial Entomology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3304-9_8

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