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Note on sericulture

Overview of Silk Industry

 Introduction

Sericulture is a labour-intensive industry in all its phases of the production chain, viz, cultivation of silkworm food plants, silkworm rearing, silk reeling, and other post-cocoon processes such as twisting, dyeing, weaving, printing and finishing. It provides employment to approximately 72.5 lakh persons, most of whom are small and marginal farmers. Cultivation of sericulture is being practiced regularly in contiguous districts in the traditional States of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and J&K; in all the States of the North Eastern Region; in the tribal areas of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Uttaranchal, Orissa. The cocoons and silk processing industry has traditionally existed in clusters. India has the distinction of cultivating all the four commercially known varieties of silk, namely, Mulberry, Tasar, Eri and Muga.    To read more ....