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Bangalore: The Union Government is pushing through a legislation to regulate sericulture production in India and improve the stock of sericulture farmers and silk weavers.
Talking to newsmen here Central Silk Board Member Secretary H Bhasker said that the bill was likely to be introduced during the current Winter Session. It was now being vetted by the Parliamentary Sub-Committee on Textiles.
The Centre had been asking the States to come out with suitable amendment to the existing Acts to ensure that the plight of sericulturists was mitigated. Sericulture is in the concurrent list.
Mr Bhasker said the worst fear of a production loss of 20 per cent of mulberry silk due to a fungus attack, called muscadine, on silk in Southern Districts of Karnataka, Coastal Andhra Pradesh and some regions in Tamil Nadu had now been oevercome by largescale application of disinfectants. However there was a possibility of a ten per cent loss in production. This could be overcome during the summer season when production would be stepped up considerably he added. India produced 17,000 tonnes of silk annually.
He admitted that the strict regime required for bivoltine rearing had come in the way of enhancing the production of these superior quality of silk which is normally grown in temperate zones.
Last year the production was 900 tonnes and by the end of the current five year plan the production would be stepped upto 1500 tonnes. However in the next five year plan the production level of bivoltine silk would be increased to 10,000 tonnes, he added.
