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In West Bengal, there are around 1 lakh 20000 farmers involved in sericulture covering 24,000 hectares of land in 29,000 villages of 17 districts where mulberry sericulture is practiced. Murshidabad, Malda, Birbhum, Nadia and Midnapore are the highest silk-producing districts in Bengal where the stakeholders are mainly marginal and semimarginal farmers, said Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi on the occasion of the plantinum jubilee of Central Sericulture Research and Training Institute (CSRTI) at Behrampore a premiere research institute of India.
