The Arunachal Pradesh government has submitted a proposal for a sericulture project worth Rs 95 crore to the Central Silk Board (CSB), the state’s commissioner of textile and handicraft Tahang Taggu said recently at a farmers’ fair at Sille Sericulture Farm in East Siang district. He urged silk farmers to adopt scientific practices with commercial objectives.
The state has prepared a five-year plan for rearing mulberry, eri and muga silk and is fully dependent on central government funding to implement the project, he said.The Arunachal Pradesh government has submitted a proposal for a sericulture project worth Rs 95 crore to the Central Silk Board (CSB), the state's commissioner of textile and handicraft Tahang Taggu said recently at a farmers' fair at Sille Sericulture Farm in East Siang district. He urged silk farmers to adopt scientific practices with commercial objectives#
Taggu suggested the farmers to take attend training programmes periodically to gain technical knowledge about sericulture, according to a top English-language daily in Assam.
According to SN Gogoi, scientist at the Regional Sericulture Research Station in Assam’s Jorhat, from the budgetary estimate of Rs 230 crore for north-eastern states to run a three-year sericulture project, Rs 30 crore has been earmarked for a mulberry project in Arunachal Pradesh. He said scientists have recommended S-1635 high yielding mulberry plant for rearing silk breed SK-6, SK-7 and B-coccon-2 for the state. (DS)
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