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Assam and the North Eastern region produces all four commercially exploited varieties of silk – mulberry, muga, eri and tasar which contributes about 21 percent of the total silk production in the country. The Centre to promote and expand the silk industry has sanctioned a total of 24 sericulture projects.

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Silk Mark is an initiative of Silk Mark Organisation of India (SMOI), Central Silk Board to protect the interest of the sericulture farmers on one hand and the consumers on the other hand by safe guarding the purity of silk in the products through the introduction of Silk Mark Labels.

There are more than 3540 authorised users of Silk Mark and over 2.8 lakh Silk Mark labelled products in the market.

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The Central Silk Board Member Secretary H. Nagesh Prabhu speaking to reporters in Mysuru on Monday said that India doubled its raw silk production in the last 10 years from 15,000 tonnes a year to almost 29,000 tonnes a year. With a growth rate of 7.5 percent per annum, silk industry is likely to become self-sustaining by 2020.