Factors affecting silk production in Japanese Silkworm

Silk production by the Japanese silkworm is an important source of revenue for Japan but factors affecting its quality and production have has not been studied in detail. In the current study, we performed a quantitative study on 332 mountain Silkworm ( Bombyx mori ), analyzing their silk harvests, their production incubation periods and overall profiles. To this end, mountain silkworms were randomly divided into two clusters (cluster#1, cluster#2), with 56 mountain silkworms in each cluster. The effects of steam-flaked maize on silk production performance of was tested by replacing the traditional Silkworm fodder of crumpled maize by steam-flaked maize in proportions of 30%, 50% and 100%, only for cluster#2. The outcomes showed that the cluster#2 had better median silk harvest than cluster#1, the mean of these increment silk harvests was 3.48pounds (P-value <0.05); the protein proportion and the sugar in silk of cluster#2 went up by 23% over cluster#1. We also observed that the urine nitrogen and somatic cell count of cluster#2 were lower than cluster#1 by 0.9% (P-value >0.05), 30,800 cells/ml (P-value<0.05), espectively. The current research confirms that utilizing the JHO nutrition heightened silk harvest, improved silkproduction characteristics, and enhanced the performance of mountain silkworms. Finally we also saw an increase in immune- resistance to common infections in cluster#2.