The Central Silk Board is planning on setting up automatic silk reeling units in key States to reduce dependence on imported raw silk. Addressing the sensitisation programme on production of ...

The Union Budget has given duty exemption to automatic shuttleless looms for modernisation of silk reeling and processing. The Finance Minister has given duty concessions of basic customs duty of 5 ...

In the mid-1800s, silk was one of the major cash crops in Jammu and Kashmir to the extent that silk fabric for parachutes used in World War 2 was exported from Kashmir before the industry’s ultimate ...

India is likely to reduce importing silk from China in the eleventh plan by establishing giant reeling units, interestingly with the help of made in China reeling machines. For the first time in the ...

"We will establish these parks based on funds and support from the central govt," said MB Rajesh Gowda, commissioner, sericulture development. The traditional process of extracting silk involved ...

: The silk reeling unit, supported by the government, on the premises of the Sericulture Department at Kuppam, is struggling to register the projected target, with farmers unwilling to supply cocoons, ...