What are the benefits of rearing silkworm on mulberry shoot in prevention of diseases in silkworm rearing?
1. Silkworm rearing on platform using mulberry shoots helps to reduce the rate of secondary contamination and the spread of diseases as the frequency of handling the silkworms is minimum. 2. In this method, the silkworms are separated from the source of contamination viz., feces, diseased larvae with every feed 3. The diseased larvae and feces remain at the bottom and healthy larvae moves to the fresh shoots at the top reducing the chances of infection 4. As trays are dispensed with, there sill be reduction in the requirement of disinfectant. It also lowers the expenditure on labour as the labour requirement is reduced in this method.
