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sericulture
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sericulture \Ser"i*cul`ture\, n. [See Sericeous, and Culture.] The raising of silkworms.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. The rearing of silkworms for the production of silk.
WordNet
n. raising silkworms in order to obtain raw silk
the production of raw silk by raising silkworms
Wikipedia
Sericulture, or silk farming, is the rearing of silkworms for the production of silk. Although there are several commercial species of silkworms, Bombyx mori (the caterpillar of the domesticated silk moth) is the most widely used and intensively studied silkworm. Silk was first produced in China as early as the Neolithic period. Sericulture has become an important cottage industry in countries such as Brazil, China, France, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, and Russia. Today, China and India are the two main producers, with more than 60% of the world's annual production.
Usage examples of "sericulture".
They at least had some quantifiable output: fabric mills and sericulture, glasswork, mining .
The fall of silk prices was particularly distressing to farming families, many of which were greatly dependent on supplementary income from sericulture to make ends meet.
Girls carried straw baskets up the hill to the monastery, and the bonzes lined them with yellow paper upon which they had drawn pictures of Lady Horsehead, and the abbot blessed the baskets and burned incense to the patron of sericulture.