Effect of Frequency of Feeding on the Commercial Characteristics of Bombyx mori L.

Abstract

The effect of feeding frequency on the commercial characteristics of Bombyx mori L. was investigated in the present experiment. The result indicates that there is no significant differences between frequency of feed 4/day (control) (T⁰) and frequency of feed 3/day (T¹) in dry summer. But frequency of feed 2/day (T²) is not effective in dry summer. During dry summer 4 feeds/day is ideal to maintain requisite humidity in the rearing bed. The present study clearly indicates that double feeding is highly useful in wet summer. Double feeding is highly economic in terms of management of labour, rearing and other rearing operations.