ASSOCIATION BETWEEN QUALITY AND PRICE OF BIVOLTINE HYBRID COCOONS TRANSACTED IN KARNATAKA

摘要

Cocoon price fixation according to quality has played an important role in improving cocoon production, The productivity and quality of raw silk produced are depends on quality of raw material, reeling process. human skill and quality of water. The quality of cocoon alone would determine 80 percent of quality and productivity of raw silk produced. Reeling is a critical activity of sericulture linking cocoon production with chat of silk fabric production. Of the several parameters used to measure cocoon quality, Shell Ratio (SR) and Defective Cocoon Percentage (DCP) have been identified as the most significant ones. The SR & DC, Cocoon Quality Index (CQI) and Estimated Renditta are calculated as per the procedure followed by Chiyuki Takabayashi (2004). The results indicated that the increase in the estimated renditta has a negative effect on die price of cocoons and vice versa. Hence the cocoon testing prior to auctioning plays an important role in fetching meaningful returns to the farmers as well as the reelers.