Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Wednesday, Mar 13, 2002
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Wednesday, Mar 13, 2002 |
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Silk Japan agency to support bivoltine silk project Our Bureau
NEW DELHI, March 12 THE Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is keen to extend technical cooperation for the third phase of the bivoltine sericulture technology development project, which aims at disseminating and commercialising bivoltine silk cultivation technology in a large scale. ``The proposal to extend technical cooperation for the third phase is under consideration of our Government'', Mr Toshifumi Sakai, JICA's new Resident Representative told reporters here on Monday. He noted that the JICA-assisted project had succeeded in `tropicalising' bivoltine sericulture technology to suit Indian conditions. As a result, the country managed to produce around 300 tonnes of bivoltine silk yarn in 2000-01, with output expected to touch 900 tonnes this year. Farmers were able to realise cocoon yields of up to 80 kg for each disease free laying (DFL), as against 45-50 cocoons per DFL from traditional multi-voltine races. Further, the bivoltine cocoons reared through JICA's technology have rendittas of 6-7 kg, i.e only 6-7 kg of cocoon are required to produce one kg of raw silk. Compared to this, the average renditta for multi-voltine cocoons was 8.5-9 kg. Over and above this, farmers rearing bivoltine silk were able to realise up to Rs 160 per kg of cocoon, compared to only Rs 110 per kg for multi-voltine cocoon. The reason for this had mainly to do with quality. The country currently produces around 16,000 tonnes of silk yarn annually, most of which is yellowish mulberry silk. The Government has set a target of producing 7,000 tonnes of bivoltine silk by the end of the Tenth Plan. ``We would be extending all cooperation to promote commercial bivoltine sericulture on a large scale, especially in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh in the third phase''.
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