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2006-06-28 14:59:00
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Srinagar: Sericulture industry in the state is back on the path of revival as the cocoon production is expected to exceed 8.50 lakh kgs this year against 7.62 lakh kgs recorded last year. This will be the highest record of cocoon production during last 16 years.
This according to an official statement was stated by the Minister for Agriculture and Cooperatives, Abdul Aziz Zargar during his inspection to sericulture Nursery at Mirgund, Pattan here the other day. He also inspected the basic cocoon seed station in the nursery.
The Minister said that government has made elaborate arrangements for organizing cocoon auction markets to provide remunerative price to the cocoon rearers and 20 cocoon auction markets are being organized by the sericulture department in Jammu where cocoon cropping is at its peak nowadays.
The Minister said that government have decided to provide attractive incentives to the entrepreneurs for setting up of reeling units in private sector as the raw material for the purpose is abundantly available in the state. He said about 26 private reeling units are functional in the state and an amount of Rs. one crore has been released as working capital assistance to these reelers under Cocoon Bank Scheme (CBS). Out of this, Rs. 60 lakh has been kept available for operating cocoon markets in Jammu division. He said more than 2900 beneficiaries will be provided CGI sheets @ Rs. 10,000 per beneficiary to improve cocoon rearing conditions during 10th five year plan.
Director Sericulture informed that there has been significant improvement in the average price of cocoons during current year. In the cocoon auction market Udhampur the farmers have fetched an average price of Rs. 260 per kg (dry) of cocoons in comparison to Rs. 220 per kg last year. He said a cash assistance of Rs. 94 lakhs has been provided to the farmers for planting mulberry trees during 10th five year plan. He said modern technology based 100 Chowki Rearing Centres (CRC) have been set up in the state at a cost of Rs. 3 crore during last 5 years to provide hatched silk worms to the cocoon rearers.
