Seasonal Performance of Bivoltine Hybrid Seed Production by Procuring Seed Cocoons from Local ASRs Against Seed Cocoons Procured from Southern SSPCs

The current study explores that the commercial silkworm seed production activities is not season specific in Udhampur district and the findings clearly reveal that the eggs recovery (65.83g/kg in FC₁ and 67.64g/kg in FC₂) was attained under self-generated seed cocoons from local ASRs and (53.50/kg in FC₁ and 73.95/kg in FC₂) eggs recovery was obtained from the seed cocoons procured from SSPC, Bangalore. Further, the cocoons dfls ratio over actual number of cocoons was found 2.56:1 in FC₁ and 2.48:1 in FC₂ under self-generated seed cocoons from local ASRs.