Know the Silkworm Cultivation

Silk fabric would have been quite familiar in our communities, in addition to a sense of comfort when worn silk fabric is also known to be quite smooth. Silk is made with a traditional loom or loom machines (Lurik) further adds to the appeal of silk fabric. Most people do not know that silk fabric is made of silkworm cocoon silk, but for some people the cultivation of silk worms have become quite profitable business area. Silk worm farming business is intended to meet the demand for silk yarn as raw material for silk fabrics by means of traditional weaving.

If talk about the silk worm cultivation certainly can not be separated from mulberry silk worms as food. Silkworm very fond of mulberry leaves, so the availability of the mulberry tree becomes absolutely necessary in the cultivation of silk worms.

One advantage is the ability to live a mulberry tree on critical land, so that the cultivation of silk worms can also become a means for greening barren land.
Silk butterfly race

Currently in the cultivation of silkworms known four types or races kupuâ €?? Butterfly that has superior silk cocoon production is very high and can produce silk yarn with good quality. Silk tie the fourth race is Race Chinese, Japanese Race, Race and Race Tropical Europe.

Currently the lot is developed in Indonesia China butterfly race and racial Japan. And a hybrid of the two races of the butterfly. However, recent results of crosses with Ras Ras Japan, China actually is much cultivated.

Silkworm Cultivation of Business Analysis

To begin the cultivation of silkworms required initial capital in the form of about 7,000 stems of mulberry trees. This is for all crops (per box of seeds / Silk worm eggs) and continue onward.

So is the media / magnifying box, simply created once, forever. The price of a box of seeds / eggs veins containing 25,000 eggs, can be purchased for Rp 50,000. From the box, the cocoon that can be produced is weighing 40-50 pounds.

Price range cocoon itself is Rp 30,000 - Rp 35,000 per kilogram of cocoons. Silk worm cycle from egg hatch to pupate is 25 days. And, regardless of the number of cocoons produced, the market is always ready to accept it. (Galeriukm).