Green groups are helping the Maisin to find a worldwide market for their products. Mulberries have been adapted to a very wide variety of local conditions. Japan has about 700 different types. The trees can grow from cool temperate to warm tropical regions, from dry to moist areas, from sea-level to as high as 3,300 metres. It was fruiting within weeks.
Mulberries are attractive trees, and the fruit is delicious.
Integration of fish, livestock, and crop production in China has been refined for over 2,000 years. The silkworm pupae are used as fish feed, and the worm faeces and wastewater from silk processing as pond fertilizers. Pond silt is used as fertilizer for fodder crops, which can in turn be used to feed livestock, poultry, and fish. Biological and ecological aspects of rice-fish culture, and the economic and social dimensions. Uses, Folk Medicine, Chemistry, Description, Germplasm, Distribution, Ecology, Cultivation, Harvesting, Yields and Economics, Energy, Biotic Factors, References.