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Related Keywords: boost production, Central silk board, DX system, import substitute bivoltine raw silk, in India, increase total storage capacity, Mysore facility, NSSO .mulberry silkworm, preserve hibernated bivoltine silkworm seed, Santosh Gangwar, sericulture industry, set up silkworm egg cold storage plant, Union Textile Minister

Central silk board has set up high capacity state-of-the-art silkworm egg cold storage plant at Mysore in Karnataka where up to 1 crore disease free layings (dfls) can be comfortably preserved in this plant. In effect, with this plant, the total storage capacity of the Mysore facility would go up to 1.5 crore dfls.

The new plant was inaugurated by Union Textiles Minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar is expected to give a boost to the production of import substitute bivoltine raw silk in India.

Related Keywords: Central silk board, identify silk, mulberry, pure silk, Silk Mark Expo 2014, silk varities, Union Ministry of Textile

Silk Mark Expo-2014 organized by the Central Silk Board under the Union Ministry of Textiles to create awareness among consumers on ascertaining authenticity of silk items and to help identify Silk - the Pure Silk! The Consumer of Silk has long been having a difficulty of identifying the pure silk from the host of other fibers.

Related Keywords: Central silk board, India silk industry, sericulture

Central Silk Board to meet growing domestic and international demand is looking to extend the area of mulberry cultivation in the state by focusing on arable land in north Karnataka. As of now, sericulture is concentrated in Mysore, Kolar, Ramanagaram, Bangalore rural, Chikballapur and Kolar districts.

Karnataka is a top silk producer which accounts for 35% of silk production in India at 8,219 metric tons (MT); but sericulture is essentially restricted to southern parts of Karnataka.