Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India] October 9 (ANI): Jammu and Kashmir authorities is working on a multipronged technique for the revival and holistic improvement of the Sericulture sector throughout Jammu and Kashmir.
According to an official launch, the futuristic roadmap for holistic development of agriculture and allied sectors will assist in making certain product high quality in addition to amount with a lift in world demand.
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“Jammu and Kashmir government is working on area expansion under mulberry plantations to increase leaf availability for rearers. The Forest Department and Sericulture Department are working jointly for achieving Jammu and Kashmir’s green mission and creating avenues of market infrastructures to provide a platform and facilitate the cocoon growers in selling their produce in their vicinity,” the assertion reads.
Recently at an occasion, Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha urged all those that are related to silk trade to come back out of the previous and look for the long run.
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“Our prime objective is to make the lives of farmers associated with this dream fabric better and to ensure uniqueness, beauty and ingenuity, which are the hallmark of J&K’s crafts, dominate the global market,” the LG stated.
Sinha stated that below the steering of Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, the Government endeavours to supply coaching, know-how inputs, IT instruments and different infrastructure assist required for the transformation of sericulture.
The Government is taking numerous measures for making this sector viable. There is a have to safeguard expertise handed down from era to era and make this sector financially extra enticing.
It additional stated that the Government is giving significance to the adoption of the most recent technological developments in silk to cut back the dependence on imported silk.
“One of the three important centres in the country for Research and Development, Training, Transfer of Technology and IT Intervention has been set up at Kashmir’s Pampore,” it stated.
To cater to the analysis, coaching and extension wants of Jammu and Kashmir, Central Silk Board (CSB) has arrange the Central Sericultural Research and Training Institute (CSR&TI) at Pampore, to revive earlier actions of the CSB in Jammu and Kashmir.
The institute is actively concerned in Research & Development and human useful resource improvement by means of its community of two Regional Sericulture Research Stations (RSRS) and eight Research Extension Centers, of which one RSRS at Jammu, two RECs at Barnoti and Lamberi are functioning. Besides, P4 Basic Seed Farm (BSF) Manasbal in Jammu and Kashmir is catering to R&D and extension wants.
High-yielding silkworm hybrids like Dun 17 x Dun 18, Dun 6 x Dun22, SH6 x NB4D2, SOH1 and improved mulberry varieties like S140, S146 and PPR1 have been developed by CSR&TI, Pampore to extend the farmers’ revenue by means of sericulture.
CSB is selling a bivoltine manufacturing program by extending technical assist by means of 6 clusters (together with 2 mega clusters), apart from extending the state of the artwork of soil testing services. Due to the continual efforts of the Institute and know-how intervention, the typical yield of bivoltine cocoons has been enhanced considerably.
Notably, the Silk Samagra Yojana launched in 2017-18 below the steering of the PM has proved to be a game-changer in making sericulture sustainable by supporting the nation’s in addition to Jammu and Kashmir’s silk trade in an built-in method. Jammu and Kashmir administration has elevated the revolving fund from Rs 70 lakh to Rs 3.50 crore.
In Silk Samagra Phase-I, about 900 silkworm rearers straight benefited and about 618 rearing homes had been additionally established. Central Silk Board has allotted Rs 35 crore for Jammu and Kashmir below Silk Samagra Phase-II benefitting round 27,000 households concerned in sericulture throughout the Union Territory. (ANI)
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