Defective eggs spell doom for silk farmers
Who have allay the fears of sericulture farmers in Virudhunagar and Tirunelveli district who were worried about an unnatural development in the silk worms in Jan 2010. The development has caused loss of several lakhs of rupees to farmers.
The problem was first reported at Ramalingapuram village near Srivilliputhur. Sericulture farmers suffered huge loss because of this. The samples of the worms were sent to REC of Srivilliputhur (Central Silk Research Board, Mysore).
The team consisting visited the village and inspected the spot. “It is not at all a disease. Farmers need not worry about it. The unusual development might be the result of local weather
It was suspected that the eggs purchased at Tenkasi might have been defective and cause the death of worms,
Farmers underlined need of inspection at Tenkasi Grainage .
A team from Central Silk Research Board in Mysore visited the village to take stock of the situation.
Even as the disease was yet to be identified, experienced such a disease to the silkworms” was the reaction of another farmer
“We have to wait till the results to know the nature of the problem,”
An inspection senior officers of the Sericulture Department in Tenkasi about the issue..
Although this was the reality, farmers are waiting for an official note regarding this report .
Meanwhile, farmers’ organisations have urged the Government to take proper measures to identify the “disease”.
“The whole sericulture sector may be in peril if the disease attacks and spreads to other places. If such disease haunts sericulture farmers at the spinning stage, they may get into trouble and may be forced to opt out of taking up sericulture itself,”
“It is necessary to take a scientific view about the present problem to avoid unwanted developments in future and save farmers from the ruins,”
