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Effect of novel insecticides treated mulberry leaves on the reeling performance of silkworm Bombyx mori L were studied. The cocoon filament length was longest in untreated control and in the insecticide treatments viz., dinotefuron 20 SG @ 0.25 g/l, dichlorvos 76 EC @ 2.63 ml/l at different time intervals of 10, 20, 30 Days After Spraying. Lowest filament length was recorded when flonicamid 50WG sprayed @ 0.3 g/l and 20, 30 and 40 DAS. This was followed by azadirachtin 1 % @ 1 ml/l recording shorter filament length at 40 DAS. However, at 10 and 20 DAS azadirachtin 1 % @ 1 ml/l recorded longest cocoon filament which were on par with untreated control. At 10 DAS, filament denier across all the treatments was on par with each other except in the treatments dinotefuron

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The silkworm Bombyx mori L. ends its larval stage with construction of silken armour called ‘cocoon’. The management of spinning larvae demands much care to maximize profit to the farmer, which necessitates manual picking of the ripened worms and provide proper anchorage to construct cocoons and the process is called as mounting. More than 40 % of the labour force is dedicated towards mounting (15 out of total 35 mandays/100 DFLs) that draws attention of the researchers striving hard to double farmer’s income by designing self mounting cocooning structures. Though corrugated plastic mountages are available, they are suitable only for Bivoltine (BV) silkworms that have a notable crawling habit. Ourefforts to design and develop new ecofriendly self mounting structures for mounting both crossbreeds (CB) and BV silkwormsevolved four new type of mountages viz., Spiral, Zig-zag, Square mountages made of bamboo and the Ribbon mountage. The lab tests of these mountages in comparison with the regular bamboo mountage and the plastic self mounting structures clearly indicated that the spiral mountages are comparable with the regular bamboo mountage with respect to various cocoon and reeling parameters among both CB (PM X CSR2) and BV double Hybrid (FC1 X FC2). Also these are self mounting cocooning frames that reduce the cost on labour during ripe worm management.

The present study was carried out in 23 Raitha Samparka Kendras  inGubbi ,Kunigal, Madhugiri  and Tumakuru taluks of Tumakuru district in Karnataka state to know the extent of awareness of farmers regarding Soil Health Management Scheme (SHMS). Thirty beneficiary farmers of SHMS were randomly selected from 12 RSKs for the study. A pre-tested schedule was used to collect relevant data from the respondents. The results revealed that half of the beneficiary farmers (50.00%) had more awareness about SHMS, whereas one-third (33.33%) and 16.67 per cent of the beneficiary farmers were awareness and less awareness regarding the SHMS, respectively. A vast majority of the farmers were aware of the objectives, interventions, mode of operation, selection criteria of beneficiaries and subsidy on various agricultural inputs pertaining to SHMS.A simple majority of the farmers (53.33%) had contacted Assistant Agricultural Officer for obtaining information on SHMS, while half of the farmers (50.00% each) had contacted Agricultural Officer and Agricultural Assistant for obtaining information regarding SHMS. The results of path analysis revealed that extension agency contact of farmers had direct and indirect effect on the extent of awareness on SHMS. The first, second and third largest indirect effect channelled through is extension agency contact (X9) in the case of five variables, mass media participation (X8)  in the case of five variables and education (X1) in the case of three variables, respectively.