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Sericulture is the technology used to derive silk from silkworms for production of textiles. Hence the cultivation of the material is a lengthy process and involves a number of factors that are to be taken good care of for maximum gain. The land selection and preparation techniques, plantation arrangement and mulberry twig sorting, methods of cultivation and propagation and the entire process of selecting the leaves and preserving them, sorting of seeds and pairing for egg production, egg preservation banks, rearing practices of the larvae, washing and cleaning of silk and the triad process of lacing, skening and bailing are stated in the course topic dealing with the geographical and technical concepts. The second section is about the job related variables like wage administration for the departments overseeing the various processes like drainage, mulberry cultivation, extension, rearing, reeling. There are additional topics on mulberry cultivation that include history, morphology and meteorology too.