Traders want Chinese reeling machines, not silk
The Central Silk Board (CSB) is keen to promote quality reeling of silk yarn in the country. This comes on the heels of the success of the bivoltine silk programme.
By Arun Iyer, TNN |
BANGALORE: The Central Silk Board (CSB) is keen to promote quality reeling of silk yarn in the country. This comes on the heels of the success of the bivoltine silk programme. As part of the process of promoting quality reeling, CSB is willing to advise entrepreneurs who want to put up reeling facilities, notably in the south.
CSB officials told ET that it had identified reeling-machine makers in China and would subsidise the import, installation and operation of these machines. “These machines are superior and they require less manual intervention, besides ensuring higher output. Chinese machines can produce around 30 tonnes annually, compared to the three to four tonnes of Indian machines,” sources added.
On a two-shift basis, a Chinese machine produces about 70 kg of yarn daily. The need for such machines is also driven by the changes in Indian sericulture where, besides the conventional multi-voltine variety, there is the temperate bivoltine and, more recently, a cross-bred form of hybrid sericulture.
The quality of the yarn is another reason why CSB is keen to promote Chinese machines. Close to 60% of the yarn produced goes in as warp in weaving operations. Yarn breakage is something that acts as an obstacle to the carrying out of continous weaving.
CSB on its part is looking to have three such Chinese machines on a pilot basis in the country. The cost of importing, installing and operating these machines is estimated to touch Rs 3 crore and CSB will subsidise the entrepreneur. The first entrepreneur has been identified at Dharmavaram in AP.
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Raw silk (or silk yarn) costs around Rs 1,400 per kg in India and between Rs 1,500 and Rs 1,600 in China. CSB officials said that if the plan to improve reeling comes through, Indian yarn could also cost as much as yarn from China.Start a SIP with as low as ₹500 with ET Money App!
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