Sericulture farms in India’s northeastern state of Assam, are suddenly witnessing a rush of female workers. Improved connectivity of villages is a major reason for this transformation. Women self-help groups (SHGs) involved in sericulture, a major cottage industry in the region, are happy with the new roads built through forest, …
India is the second largest producer of mulberry raw silk, next only to China accounting more than 15 per cent of the global raw silk production. This study was carried out in Tamil Nadu, which is one of the largest silk producing states in India. In Tamil Nadu, Coimbatore district …
Karimnagar Sept. 18: Notwithstanding the claims of the government on promotion of traditional occupations like sericulture, the agro-based cottage industry is facing a crisis due to lack of patronage in the district. The sericulture activity, which hitherto flourished in several parts of the district, is gradually diminishing. The underutilisation of …
Many farmers have switched over to sericulture from the conventional crops of paddy or groundnut in the central districts in the past two years. This has come in handy for officials of the Sericulture Department, which has planned to increase the area under sericulture in the Cauvery delta districts. Encouraged …
Farmers are inclined towards large-scale farming to cut down the cost, while increasing the productivity in the sericulture sector. According to a report by scientists in the Central Sericulture Research and Training Institute (CSRTI) and National Silkworm Seed Organisation, improved technologies and machineries have increased crop stability, while reducing labour …
sericin, a by-product of silk, may now find use in skin care products that protect from ultraviolet (uv) rays. A study revealed the protein protects the outermost layer of skin from uv rays. Sericin halts death of skin cells initiated by uv-b ray. Exposure to uv-b burns the outer layer …
The Central Silk Board (CSB), the apex body of the Indian sericulture industry, is involved in developing new hybrids to improve bivoltine silk production in sub-tropical Northern India. Among northern states, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, and Uttaranchal are the traditional bivoltine silk producers in the region. Despite more potential …
Mulberry sericulture is a labour-intensive industry in all its phases, namely, cultivation of silkworm food plants, silkworm rearing, silk reeling and other post cocoon processes. In the global context, silk accounts for about 0.2 per cent of total textile fiber production. However, in value terms, silk stands for high value …
scientists in the us have unravelled the genetic structure of one of the strongest silks that spiders produce. The discovery could help make super spider-silk products with a wide range of defence, industrial and medical applications. University of California, Riverside professor Cheryl Hayashi and her postdoctoral student Jessica Garb studied …
chinese scientists have mapped the genome (genetic make-up) of silkworm (Bombyx mori), a moth economically important to a large number of people in Asia, including about six million in India. The work, by a battery of 93 scientists drawn from several Chinese institutions, appeared in the December 10 issue of …
Jobs are what all Indians want. Governments know this. But they do not know how to create jobs. The problem is that the much-touted mantra of economic growth does not generate jobs. In fact, the reverse is quite true: India suffers from the growth-without-jobs syndrome. Therefore in the last decade …
There is one strong view in the job-business: more growth will lead to more jobs. We have to invest in only economic growth and not in employment creation programmes and other sectors. This is what the NDA-created Ahluwalia Task Force had maintained then. It would not be surprising if Ahluwalia, …
STATUS: Generates 10 million jobs currently POTENTIAL: Can generate 8.6 million additional jobs if bamboo plantations are undertaken and high value artisanal and other products marketed HURDLE: Remains a monopoly of forest departments. Has to be given agriculture status to cultivate, harvest and sell Sandni, a village in Rajasthan's Chittorgarh …
STATUS: Employs 8 million people currently POTENTIAL: Even the existing capacity can absorb another 3 million people HURDLES: Lack of productive silkworms. Poor technology. No access to forests, limits the production of wild silk The shimmer of silk captivates even the most languid eye. But first, the cocoon of archival …
What is clear is that finding jobs in India demands a change in the way we do business. Let us be clear, the formal industrial sector has never provided employment in the country. With greater mechanisation in the years to come, its contribution towards generating employment is bound to decline …
STATUS: Generates 2.5 million jobs in Orissa alone POTENTIAL: High capacity for employment because India has several sal forests. Can generate another 2.5 million jobs in Orissa alone HURDLE: Forest laws restrict plucking of leaves For a mere Rs 300, 27-year-old Somnath Mohanta sells a cycle-load of sal (Shorea robusta) …
the image of the Indian rural woman is changing. No more the stereotyped demure wife, she is searching for her own identity and cautiously trying to come out of the shadows of the patriarchs in her family. The rural women of Vidisha district in Madhya Pradesh are also a part …
a combination of high-yielding seed varieties, fertilisers and state-of-art production practices has resulted in an increases in agricultural productivity in India over the last few decades. However, there is growing realisation that over-dependence on chemicals to boost food output has an alarming, and wholly unwelcome, effect: deterioration of soil health. …
Japanese scientists have devised a novel way to process silk yarn into a fine powder. Raw silk is first boiled in an alkali solution of sodium carbonate to decrease its strength. The crushing is done in two stages. Preliminary crushing produces a coarse powder with particles about 20 I-t m …
A major programme of beekeeping and sericulture has been launched by the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) in Kenya. The project, it hopes, will alleviate rural poverty through small-scale incomegenerating enterprises. They will market honey, silk and wax to cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries. For the first time …
Silk industry wastes containing large quantities of waste pupae can be used as poultry feed, according to researchers of the Department of Chemistry, Cotton College, Guwahati. The scientists have shown that waste muga (a wild silk obtained from the cocoon of an Assamese moth) pupae in dry form is rich …
