Farmer Friendly MATLAB Based Automatic Silkworm Eggs Counting System

Sericulture is art of rearing silkworm for production of cocoons. Production and timely supply of superior quality silkworm seed is essential to sustain sericulture as a commercial crop in competition with other cash crops. Sericulture in India is practiced both in temperate and tropical zones. The silkworm seed production is an important activity of sericulture. This involves the rearing of parent seed crops for the production of seed of silkworms known as Disease Free Lyings (DFLs). To find out the laying capability of the month and hatching percentage, counting silkworm eggs is essential during silkworm rearing. Similarly, it is important to count silkworm eggs accurately so that farmers can pay accordingly and they will not suffer any loss while buying. The manual counting of silkworm eggs is very tedious work and involves chances of errors and damage to the eggs. Also as it's in large number, it takes a lot of time to count it manually. So there is a need to develop some fast and automatic methods to count the number of silkworm eggs. This paper presents an image processing technique that calculates the number of eggs and displays it on LCD for ease. For displaying count on LCD we are using Arduino UNO as controller.