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UK
/sˈɛɹɪkˌʌltʃɐ/
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NOUN
- raising silkworms in order to obtain raw silk
- the production of raw silk by raising silkworms
How To Use sericulture In A Sentence
- Dyed silk was purchased from Arab and Indian traders until sericulture was introduced on the island in the early nineteenth century.
- The original focus industries were pottery, sericulture, carpentry, textiles, coconut fiber, and woven mats.
- A few women expressed willingness to train in sericulture and sought the help of the Sericulture Department to market the cocoons.
- For sericulture to flourish in the State, it was about time that its promotion started at the grassroot level.
- Across the Atlantic, sericulture got its first push in 1609 when James I of England encouraged the production of silk (and discouraged the growing of tobacco) so he could fill English looms.
- He said she failed to make much headway in sericulture because the department was neglected over the years.
- The original focus industries were pottery, sericulture, carpentry, textiles, coconut fiber, and woven mats.
- As for the development of agriculture and sericulture by the establishment of state institutions to promote the diffusion of the best available techniques, such policies had a longer history in China than in the West.
- The aim is to show the children the villagers' lives, and get them to learn about sericulture, agriculture, and the village markets.
- ‘Such events generate great interest in students on the huge returns in store for them, besides encouraging the undergraduates to take up sericulture, which has a huge untapped potential,’ a research scholar explained.