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BANGALORE, JUL 15: Central Silk Board (CSB), apex body of the Indian sericulture industry, has almost met its targets in releasing new sericulture products during the 10th five-year Plan. The CSB’s inventions were primarily aimed at improving the productivity in a bid to reduce silk imports from China.
Of the total 297 research projects targeted during the 10th Plan period, the research institutes attached to the CSB have completed 281 projects. The remaining 16 projects would be completed during the current 11th five-year Plan.
As the research mainly involves the biological materials like mulberry and the silk insects, the results of the products could not be ascertained in short-term. The benefits of these products could be felt during the 11th Plan period.
However, a few products have already started yielding aimed results during field trials. To highlight a few, officials said the mulberry leaf productivity has doubled to 60 tonne per hectare per year when compared to 30 tonne during the 9th Plan period.
Cocoon productivity has also increased to 60 kgs per 100 dfls (Disease free layings) from 40 kg, pushing up the cocoon production to 698 kgs per hectare from 627.5 kgs. Input cost per kg of cocoon produced has been brought down to Rs 75 from Rs 100.
Primarily, raw silk production per hectare has increased to 82.9 kgs from 68.3 kgs. The CSB has also filed 40 technologies for patenting, of which 16 have been commercialised.
During the 10th Plan, the fiscal year 2002-03 witnessed 16,319 tonne of silk output but the production declined to 15,742 tonne during 2003-04 due to drought and again surged to 16,500 tonne in the next financial year of 2004-05 and further increased to 17,305 tonne in 2005-06 and now in the financial year 2006-07 it touched 18,760 tonne. Despite increase in production, India still imports around 8,000 tonne of silk from China.
With new inventions, the CSB anticipates to increase its production to match the local demand and reduce imports from China as much as possible during the 11th Plan period, when the country would witness the benefits of newly invented sericulture products.
Source: Industry Website
Of the total 297 research projects targeted during the 10th Plan period, the research institutes attached to the CSB have completed 281 projects. The remaining 16 projects would be completed during the current 11th five-year Plan.
As the research mainly involves the biological materials like mulberry and the silk insects, the results of the products could not be ascertained in short-term. The benefits of these products could be felt during the 11th Plan period.
However, a few products have already started yielding aimed results during field trials. To highlight a few, officials said the mulberry leaf productivity has doubled to 60 tonne per hectare per year when compared to 30 tonne during the 9th Plan period.
Cocoon productivity has also increased to 60 kgs per 100 dfls (Disease free layings) from 40 kg, pushing up the cocoon production to 698 kgs per hectare from 627.5 kgs. Input cost per kg of cocoon produced has been brought down to Rs 75 from Rs 100.
Primarily, raw silk production per hectare has increased to 82.9 kgs from 68.3 kgs. The CSB has also filed 40 technologies for patenting, of which 16 have been commercialised.
During the 10th Plan, the fiscal year 2002-03 witnessed 16,319 tonne of silk output but the production declined to 15,742 tonne during 2003-04 due to drought and again surged to 16,500 tonne in the next financial year of 2004-05 and further increased to 17,305 tonne in 2005-06 and now in the financial year 2006-07 it touched 18,760 tonne. Despite increase in production, India still imports around 8,000 tonne of silk from China.
With new inventions, the CSB anticipates to increase its production to match the local demand and reduce imports from China as much as possible during the 11th Plan period, when the country would witness the benefits of newly invented sericulture products.
Source: Industry Website
