New State Plan Scheme For Catalytic Development Programme
Author(s): City Air NewsChandigarh, September 6, 2015: The Central Silk Board, Government of India has discontinued the Catalytic Development Programme being implemented in the State with effect from the financial year 2015-16. The Department...
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Sep 6, 2015 12:30
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Chandigarh, September 6, 2015: The Central Silk Board, Government of India has discontinued the Catalytic Development Programme being implemented in the State with effect from the financial year 2015-16. The Department of Horticulture Punjab has proposed a new State Plan Scheme for Catalytic Development Programme during the current financial year with Rs.30.47 lac to sustain the development of Sericulture in the State.
Disclosing this here today Director, Horticulture department Mr. Gurkanwal Singh said that the state produces Bivoltine silk. The popular silk worm races are NB-4 D2x SH6 and its reciprocal. He said that the Agro climatic condition of some pockets of the state is very congenial and conducive for cultivation of mulberry silk. The component-wise funding of the proposed scheme would be met from the State and beneficiary share in different ratios ranging from 75:25 to 70:30 subject to final clearance of the scheme by the State Finance Department. He said that marginal and landless farmers can adopt silk farming and get good returns as mulberry leaves is all that they need to feed silk worms.
He further said that the main objective of the scheme is to bring horizontal and vertical growth in Cocoon production, promote bivoltine Sericulture and Sericulture in the State and to harness the available natural resources viz waste/degraded land for development of viable and sustainable sericulture.
He said that in India the major silk producing states are Mysore, West Bengal, Jammu and Kashmir, Assam, Bihar, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, U.P., Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Manipur, Tripura and Maharashtra. The total annual production of raw silk in India is about 31 lakhs kg. out of which mulberry alone accounts the highest i.e. 25 lakhs kg. and non-mulberry is around 6 lakhs kg. The total output of Silk waste in India is about 12.5 lakhs kg. annually, out of which mulberry shares about 10 lakhs kg. and the rest is shared by non-mulberry Silk. Next to China India is the second largest producer of silk.
In the Punjab State Sericulture is practiced in the sub-mountainous area i.e. mainly in 4 districts (Gurdaspur, Pathankot, Hoshiarpur and Ropar). In the State around 1200 beneficiaries are covered under Sericulture. The total annual production of Mulberry cocoon in the State is 25 Tonne by using 800 Ozs. Silk Seed.
Date:
Sunday, September 6, 2015
