Statesman News Service
MALDA, Nov. 26: The Malda district magistrate, Mr Sridhar Kumar Ghosh, has asked the deputy director, sericulture department, to report the loss after a large number of silk worms in Kaliachak area died. Several sericulture farmers in Kaliachak areas are not in a position to produce cocoons due to the silkworms getting affected with a disease.
It may be noted that central sericulture, state sericulture and private producers supplied huge quantity of silk worm eggs in the silk producing areas for Aghrayani crop.
The state sericulture officials blamed sericulture farmers for not taking the preventive measures and disinfecting rearing houses.
According to sericulture officials, a section of farmers who procured silk worm eggs from unlicensed producers and did not take any preventive measures when silk worms were seen to be dying.
The disease was spread from those cultivators and it infected other silk worms just before the maturity worms for producing cocoon.
The sericulture official suspects that fluctuation of climate may be another reason for the spread of the disease here.
A senior field officer of sericulture department said that there is no method to check the death of silk worms.
“Preventive measures are only solution to save the silk worms,” he added.
After receiving letter from the district magistrate, the sericulture department will start a survey in the affected zone to estimate loss from tomorrow.
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