Sustainable Development: Indian Sericulture Development- An overview

                                                                                    SMRITI SINGH

                                           UNIVERSITY DEPT. OF ZOOLOGY

                                       S.K.M.UNIVERSITY

                                      DUMKA-814110
                                      (JHARKHAND)

DEFINITION

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT- It’s which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

SERICULTURE- It’s a silk farming which is rearing of silkworms for the production of raw silk.

                                                                                    ‘OR’ 

The science that deals with the culture of silkworm both under indoor and outdoor conditions and till the production of silk yarn is designated as sericulture. It is an emerging discipline of Applied Biology.

·        Sericulture is both an art and science of raising silkworm for silk production.

·        India is the second largest producer of raw silk after China.

·        Sericulture has better prospects for growth.

·        It is a farm based, labor intensive and commercially attractive economic activity falling under the cottage and small-scale sector.

·        It requires low investment but with potential for relatively higher returns.

·        The domestic demand for silk, considering all varieties is nearly 25,000 metric tones.

      

·        The present strategy of sustainable rural development in India mainly focuses on poverty alleviation, better livelihood opportunities, provision of basic amenities through innovative programs of wage and self-employment.

·        Today, China and India are the two main producers, together manufacturing more than 60% of world production each year.

·        Jharkhand has become the single largest producer of Tasar Silk in the country and Central Silk Board has appreciated the state.

·        Tasar culture is practiced traditionally in Jharkhand mostly by tribes and weaker section of the society.

Learning how to weave silk yarn into cloth at Dumka (Jharkhand) 

Silk clothe prepared 👌👌

IMPORTANCE OF SERICULTURE

·        Sericulture is combination of agriculture, animal husbandry, cottage industry and pure textile activity.

·        Sericulture and silk textile industry is one of the major sub-sectors compromising the textile sector, related to natural fiber i.e., silk.

·        Sericulture has the potential of employment generation: export oriented and makes the flow of wealth from rich classes to poor classes.

·        Silk is inseparable part of Indian culture and tradition. No ritual is complete without silk being use as a wear in the form of saree or other.