(i) Technologies for Tropical Tasar

Technologies for Host plants

• Nursery technique for raising Terminalia arjuna and T. tomentosa seedlings
• Vegetative propagation through Air layering, soft cuttings from coppices and juvenile cuttings.
• Integrated package for raising and maintenance of host plants as Economic plantation.
• Integrated nutrient management through organic manures, chemical fertilizers, green manuring, micro- and secondary nutrients.
• Foliar application of Urea, as cheapest method of boosting leaf production.
• Utilization of farm refuse through composting and vermicomposting.
• Integrated weed management practices.
• Integrated farming system for effective land utilization
• Eco-friendly package for control of leaf gall insect – a pest of tasar food plants through botanicals and bio-control agents.

Technologies for Silkworm culture

• Commercialization of three wild tasar ecoraces (Daba TV, Daba BV, Sukinda BV).
• Model for in-situ conservation of ecoraces.
• Technology for loose and white egg production.
• Outdoor preservation of cocoons in moderate climate for synchronized emergence in shorter span with lower disease incidence.
• Integrated Silkworm seed production technology.
• Development of several Egg laying devices.
• Nylon-net for enhancing coupling efficiency in tasar silkworm.
• Egg incubation system.
• Package for Chawki (young age) silkworm rearing.
• Integrated Package of late age silkworm rearing.
• Indoor silkworm rearing technology.
• Sodium hypochlorite as foliar application to check virosis and bacteriosis.
• Tasar Keet Oushad against silkworm diseases.
• Management of Virosis through botanical formulation.
• Management of Virosis through Vaccine.
• IPM against Uzifly.
• Tasar Rakshak: A biological control of tasar silkworm diseases.

Technologies for Reeling & Spinning

• Cocoon cooking by enzyme, hydrogen peroxide and papaya extract.
• Improved reeling charkha and reeling machine.
• Pedal-cum-motorised tasar reeling- cum-twisting machine for reeling of pierced Tasar cocoons.
• Dry and Wet reeling processes.
• Vegetable and Lac based dyeing of tasar fabrics.
• Reeling of core spun and fancy yarn to reduce cost.
• Waste reeling – use of peduncles.
• Cocoonase reeling.

Technologies for Temperate Tasar

• Development of inter-specific silkworm hybrid and breeds.
• Voltinism regulation through thermo-photo periodic and altitudinal deviations.
• Indoor chawki rearing technique.
• Indoor rearing of silkworm.
• Outdoor rearing technique for late age silkworm.
• Silkworm disease management.
• Crop regulation by development of rearing schedules incorporating different altitudes.
• Raising of host plant seedlings and maintenance of plantation.
• Technology for maintenance of cocoon quality and fecundity.

Useful and beneficial products developed by CTR&TI, Ranchi

• Flame gun device for disinfection of field and grainage.
• Nylon bag for oviposition and brushing of worms.
• Egg drying tray.
• Cooling incubator for egg incubation in summer.
• Egg transportation basket.
• Nylon net for silkworm rearing and pest control.
• Motorized tasar reeling cum twisting machine.
• Collapsible spinning mountage in indoor rearing.
• CTRS Path for pebrine disease control.
• Keet Oushadh for disease control.
• Tasar Rakshak for diseasae control.
• Twin Charkha.
• Cocoonase enzyme isolated from pupa for cooking of cocoons.
• Core spun yarn for product diversification and low cost.
• Pierced cocoon reeling technique.
• Pupa oil and pupa protein.
• Attenuated AmCPV culture against virosis.
• Jeevan Suraksha, botanical formulation for prevention of Tasar silkworm diseases.
• Jeevan Dhara, botanical formulation for Tasar silkworm protection from Virosis.
• Semi-synthetic diet for young age silkworm rearing.
• New Drug formulation for the control of Pebrine.