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BERHAMPUR: The National Silk Worm Seed Project at Ramgiri in Gajapati has dispatched better quality cocoon to West Bengal for the first time in 12 years.
The project has also encouraged many people in surrounding villages to go for sericulture.
According to B D Dash, assistant director of the project, latest technology and proper nourishment of silk worms have enabled the project farm to produce 28 kg cocoon.
Similarly, the locals have produced another 112 kg using same technology and a total of 140 kg of cocoon was sent to Malda in West Bengal last week.
Since the cocoons were of better quality, they fetched Rs 180 per kg and the locals too had their share, Dash added.
A workshop on nourishing silk worm was organised to provide latest know-how as well as encourage locals to go for sericulture. After dispatch of cocoon, sericulture officials of West Bengal visited Ramgiri centre and applauded the efforts of the staff and locals, Dash said.
