Limitless production of silk is now possible at the Organization for Industrial, Spiritual and Cultural Advancement factory in Bago City with the recent arrival of a new machine from Japan, Negros Silk Center manager Thelma Watanabe said yesterday.

The P3 million machine that can detect diseases of silkworms was brought to Negros Occidental by the group from OISCA Ibaraki headed by Takeyasu Onose who paid a courtesy visit to Gov. Joseph Marañon at the Capitol in Bacolod City yesterday.

We have a silkworm-breeding machine so we needed to be able to detect diseases to determine if the mother moths have diseases so we can stop the strain, Watanabe said.

The machine for detecting diseases is very vital to our industry because we will not be importing silkworm eggs anymore, we are now producing them in Bago, she said.

It even has the potential to supply other countries, there is no limit to production, she said.

We are now giving our farmers silkworm eggs bred by our technicians at the OISCA Bago Training Center, she added. The Japanese who are on an educational visit and met with the governor included Satoko Akita, Tomoya Iizumi, Hatsumi Izawa, Nobuaki Ohkubo, Etsuko Otsu, Keigo Hosoya, Katsuya Noguchi, Takae Sakamoto, Yoshimi Yatabe, Makoto Yasuda, Yumiko Suzuki, Taro Hitoki, Erika Nakashima, Tomoko Chiba, Mrs. Miyazawa and Kinzuo and Masako Higuchi.*CPG

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