Sericulture flourished here in Taiwan under the Japanese, and our agricultural schools even used to have sericulture departments. Silkworms are easy to acquire even today because elementary-school students still raise them as "pets" in their biology classes.
而台灣在日本影響下，早期養蠶工業興盛，農工學校中還設置蠶絲科，迄今蠶寶寶仍是台灣小學生上生物課的入門「寵物」，因此很容易上手。