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Jharkhand: Bhagaiya silk, Kuchai silk, Munda jewellery, bamboo craft get GI tagJharkhand's traditional crafts have achieved a significant milestone for the artisans and weavers of Jharkhand. Bhagaiya silk, Kuchai silk,...
Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma retains key portfolios, allocates ministriesAssam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has allocated portfolios to the newly sworn-in ministers. He retained Home, Power, Public Works, a...
Assam Cabinet okays GoM report on proposal to grant ST status to six communitiesThese communities are holding protests at different places.Assam is going to assembly polls early next year and ST status is emerging as an...
Chikkaballapur MP Sudhakar urges Centre to expand PM Fasal Bima & Kisan Yojana with more farming activitiesBJP MP Dr K Sudhakar called for the inclusion of sectors like sericulture, livestock farming, and aquaculture under PM Fasal Bima Yojana an...
UP govt to honour individuals with 'Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay Samman' for contributions to silk industryThe UP government will honour exceptional contributions to the Silk Industry with the 'Pandit Deen Dayal Updhyayay Samman' awards for 2024-...
Manipur CM Biren Singh releases benefits amounting to Rs. 1.23 crore to about 495 beneficiariesThe Chief Minister of Manipur highlighted the joint efforts of the Department of Sericulture, Government of Manipur, and Manipur Building a...
Assam assembly is expected to hold winter session in new buildingAssam, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma took stock of the progress of the construction and asked PWD (Building) to complete the construct...
Govt go ahead for field trials of transgenic silkwormsIndia is the second largest producer of silk and accounts for nearly 18 per cent of global raw silk production.
H Nagesh Prabhu assumes charge as secretary general of International Sericultural CommissionISC, instituted on August 8, 1960, is the only inter-governmental organisation engaged in the development of sericulture and silk industry ...
Akhilesh Yadav allocates portfolios to 21 newly-inducted ministersUP CM Akhilesh Yadav allocated portfolios to 21 newly-inducted ministers and reshuffled departments of 12 others, while retaining Health, F...
Punjab scheme to boost sericulture in the stateThe Department of Horticulture, Punjab, has proposed a new State Plan Scheme for Catalytic Development Programme during the current year.
Coimbatore's silk farmers in despair due to unstable pricesCocoon prices in the country fell by more than 60 per cent, once the import duty on raw silk from China was reduced from 15 per cent to 10 ...
Textile Ministry to give Rs 1,000 crore financial aid for sericulture for Jharkhand"I would urge Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh to sanction Rs 1,000 crore and my department will give Rs 1,000 to help Jharkh...
Rs 232 crore for handloom and sericulture departmentAssam government has earmarked Rs 232 crore under the state plan to promote growth in the handloom and sericulture sector.
- Government to promote cocoon production
Between April 2011 and March 2012, there was a significant drop in the prices of cocoons in various cocoon markets from about Rs 275 per Kg...
- Silk board weaves new mulberry breeds
The Central Silk Board (CSB) is open to the idea of developing region- and season-specific breeds of mulberry as demand for seed cocoon out...
- Malda to get country's first Silk Park
The country's first Silk Park will be set up here on 40 acre land, Deputy Director of sericulture department Bijon Kumar Mandal said on Fri...
- TN to take up Rs 15 cr silk development activities
The Tamil Nadu government, in association with the Centre, will spend about Rs 15 crore for development of sericulture in the state, Minist...
- Govt's putting emphasis on forest-grown silk
With China far ahead of India in the sericulture sector, the Centre is laying emphasis on the growth of ‘vanya’ or forest-grown silk that h...
- Jharkhand plans to patent organic silk
Aiming to give a boost to the state’s economy, the Jharkhand government is planning to patent the variety of organic silk available here.