Iran Press/ Iran News: Gilan produces almost half of the country’s raw cocoon thanks to its climate, which is conducive to mulberry tree plantation.
The process of breeding of silkworms from the beginning to after the cocoon is woven and harvested is very interesting and spectacular.
Putting silkworms in a two-story wooden room, feeding them with mulberry leaves, and weaving cocoons around the worms take some time, and after the cocoons are woven, it's time to harvest.
Silk and its byproducts such as silkworm powder are used as a raw material in pharmaceutical, cosmetics, and toiletry industries.
If there is a delay in harvesting, the cocoons will turn into butterflies and the long efforts of the Sericulture industry will vanish.
Images are related to the harvesting of silkworm cocoons in Shaft and Langrood in Gilan province.
The industry generates numerous direct and indirect jobs, especially for the rural population.
Other provinces in which sericulture is practiced include Mazandaran and Golestan (in northern Iran), Khorasan Razavi, North and South Khorasan (all in eastern Iran), East Azarbaijan (in the northwest) and Isfahan (in central Iran).
Iran is the world’s eighth-biggest country in silk farming after China, India, Uzbekistan, Thailand, Brazil, Vietnam, and North Korea.
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