Sericulture means cultivation of silkworms, which finally produces silk. Silk is an amazing fabric and a naturally produced animal fibre of unparalleled grandeur is rightly called as the �Queen of Textiles�. Silk is a product of labour of love of the sericulture farmers and artisans engaged in adding value to silk that reaches customers in its beautiful and precious form. Chemically speaking, silk is made of proteins secreted in the fluid state by a caterpillar, popularly known as 'silkworm'. Silkworm feeds on the selected food plants and spin cocoons as a 'protective shell' to perpetuate the life. Silkworm has four stages in its life cycle viz., egg, caterpillar, pupa and moth. Man interferes this life cycle at the cocoon stage to obtain the silk, a continuous filament of commercial importance, used in weaving of the dream fabric.