Thailand Silk Industry Successfully Produces Cassava Silk

< p > it is reported that Thailand's < a href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_c.asp" > silk > /a > industry has produced success similar to castor silk by cassava leaf silkworm production, which is a more environmentally friendly product.

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< p > cassava silk, similar to castor silk, has a non smooth texture. Its weight is light, and it is not easy to wrinkle. It needs no dry cleaning.

All these factors make the fabric popular around the world, especially in Japan and Europe.

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< p > cassava root is usually used in animal feed processing and ethanol industry, but its leaves are usually useless, so they are usually thrown away as rubbish.

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< p > however, Professor Tipvadee Attathom discovered that cassava leaves can be used to feed silkworms.

Based on this discovery, Entomology Department of Kasetsart University Gan Tong Sheng branch has launched a research project.

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Professor P Tipvadee is keen to help farmers grow cassava for better returns.

At the same time, Thailand is the world's major cassava producing country, which has prompted her to carry out related comprehensive utilization research.

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< p > the project has been effective in integrating supply chain. After raising silkworm, silkworm has been reeled into silk and pformed into finished product.

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< p > recently, 35 castor silk planting groups participated in the project with some a href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_s.asp" > textile enterprises < /a >.

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Professor P pointed out that they have already worked with silk international company to develop the silk industry and create environmentally friendly product standards like Tipvadee.

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Professor P Tipvadee said: "last year, the project was awarded the Thailand Research Fund (TRF)."

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Professor P > Tipvadee pointed out that the silkworm producing silkworm silk lived in the northeast of India, and was first introduced to Thailand about 40 years ago.

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< p > traditionally, Thailand reclaims silk by feeding mulberry leaves. However, castor silkworms generally rely on cassava and castor leaves.

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At the beginning of P, castor silkworms eat castor leaves, but the area of cassava planting in Thailand is very large. Farmers find that cassava leaves can be used to feed castor silkworms.

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Professor P > Tipvadee said: "due to its humid weather, Chiang Mai, Wu Tai Ni, Lampang, Chiang Rai and Na Kong Sha Wan provinces are more suitable for raising castor silkworms than other areas."

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P > one of the economic insects of cocoon cocoon with the leaf of the castor silkworm.

Lepidoptera, silkworm moth, the scientific name Philosamia cynthiaricini Boisduval. castor silkworm, originally produced in Assam, Northeastern India, began to spread from India in eighteenth Century. China, the United States, Sri Lanka, Malta, Italy, Philippines, Egypt, Japan, Korea and other countries were first introduced and reared.

Castor silkworm has four stages of development: egg, larva, pupa and adult.

The egg stage is about 10d, and the larva is 4 dormancy and the 5 instar is 20d. The pupal stage is about 20d. It is difficult to hatch a generation after completion of the 45-50d. egg period below 16.5 degrees Celsius or 32 degrees Celsius. The suitable temperature is about 25 degrees. The temperature of the larval stage is about 24 degrees. The protective temperature of the pupal stage is about 25 degrees Celsius, and the relative humidity is 75% - 90%.

At the height of growth, the weight of 7g increased by 5400 times than that of the silkworm.

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< p > castor silkworm cocoon can not be reeled. It can only be used as raw material for silk spinning and spinning of Ricinus spun silk.

There are also spun silk blended with silkworm waste silk, tussah waste silk, ramie and chemical fiber.

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< p > castor silkworm takes cassava as feed, and cassava silkworm is commonly known as production.

Actually, they are castor silkworms.

In 1956, Cenxi County of Guangxi province succeeded in rearing castor silkworm with cassava leaf. After that, it was raised in neighboring counties and was called cassava silkworm.

< a href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_p.asp > > Guangdong < /a >, Fujian also raised successively.

Their habits and characteristics are similar to castor silkworm.

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