Nigeria can now produce silkworm eggs for farmers – FG
Silk farming or sericulture, which is the cultivation of silkworm to produce silk, has since remained an excellent agro-based cottage industry for rural reconstruction and development.
Mr. Ojo Fashakin, an agriculturist, who specilalises in sericulture, noted that silk is an animal protein fibre produced by certain insects to build cocoons and webs.
He explained that the vast majority of the world’s production of silk was from the silk worm, scientifically known as Bombyx mori, which originated from China and that the species of the insect was known to feed exclusively on a plant known as mulberry.