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Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir government is setting up a cocoon ware house and a hot air drier in Baramulla district to promote age-old silk industry in the state, a senior official said here on March 31.
Estimated to cost Rs 75 lakhs, work on the ware house and hot air drier has been started to facilitate silk worm rearers to dry their cocoon, Additional Director Sericulture S M Rafiq said during plantation drive-week at Shimlaran-Baramulla, 55 kms from here today.
During current year 9.30 lakh Mulberry plants, including 1.80 lakh grafts and 6.10 lakh seedlings, are being planted in different sericulture nurseries of the district, he said.
Thirty one kgs of Mulberry seeds are being sown in various nurseries during the current season while 1.37 lakh Mulberry saplings are being planted in the fields, he said, adding out of which 0.80 lakh plants are to be distributed among 1300 persons free of cost with an incentive of Rs 6.50 per plant.
The plantation drive was inaugurated in the district by District Development Commissioner Abdul Hamid by planting a mulberry plant.
Speaking on the occasion, Hamid impressed upon the officers of the departement for introduction of improved high yielding Mulberry varities in the field and making available Mulberry leaf to the rearers in their vicinity.
