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Related Keywords: Buniyad machines, Central silk board, CSB, current fiscal, development of Silk Industry, earmarked a budget of Rs6.3 crore, Odisha state, sericulture, State urged to send more proposals, tasar farming, under Central Sponsored Schemes

The Central Silk Board (CSB) has earmarked a budget of Rs6.3 crore for the development of silk industry in Odisha State in the current fiscal. They have already sanctioned Rs94 lakh and asked the State to send them more proposals under the Central Sponsored Schemes (CSS), said chairman of CSB KM Hanumantharayappa.

As promised by Union Minister for Textile and Information and Broadcasting Smriti Irani during International Women’s Day last year to replace thigh reeling, Hanumantharayappa said that Odisha has so far been provided 106 Buniyad machines.

Related Keywords: Abdul Kalam Agriculture College in Kishanganj, Bihar agriculture ministry, departments for detailed study, mulberry production, on mulberry plants, promote silk industry in the state, proposed advanced centre, sanctioned Rs 60 crore, sericulture, silk farming, silk growers, silk textile technology, silkworm

Bihar agriculture ministry has sanctioned Rs 60 crore for the proposed advanced centre on sericulture (silk farming) at Abdul Kalam Agriculture College in Kishanganj this fiscal to promote silk industry in the state, said agriculture minister Prem Kumar.

The advanced centre will have separate departments for detailed study on mulberry plants, mulberry production, silkworm, silk textile technology and the one dealing with the pest problem that afflict silkworms.

Related Keywords: conservation, discerning customers, jointly organized by Central Silk Board, on Wild Moths, part of three-day 8th International Conference, popularise silk fabrics, post-cocoon technology, research on host plants, sericulture, silk processing, silkworms, vanya or wild silk and Silkmark exhibition, wild silk industry

A vanya or wild silk and Silkmark exhibition will be part of the three-day 8th International Conference on Wild Moths jointly organized by the Central Silk Board (CSB) under the central ministry of textiles and the International Society for Wild Silk Moths, Japan, at Hotel Radisson Blu in Guwahati from January 22 to popularise silk fabrics among discerning customers in the state.

Related Keywords: Ajay Tamta, Central Government will extend all possible help, entire north eastern state, higher production of silk, largest producer of silk, located at Mantripukhri, process of producing new breed, promoting silk production in Manipur, RTSR, sericulture, Union Minsiter of State for Textiles, visit to Regional Oak Tasar Research Station

Union Minsiter of State for Textiles Ajay Tamta during his visit to Regional Oak Tasar Research Station (RTSR) located at Mantripukhri said that the Central Government will extend all possible help in promoting silk production in Manipur.

Manipur is the largest producer of silk in the entire north eastern state and there are varieties of silk available in the state and Scientist of the Station need to look into the process of producing new breed for higher production of silk.

Related Keywords: ambitious project launched in textile sector, design inputs, inaugurated Apparel and Garment Making Centre, laid foundation stone for Muga P3 Basic Seed Station Kobulong, launched newly approved Integrated Eri Silk Development Project, Mokokchung, NERTPS, Santosh Gangwar, sericulture, technology upgradation, Union Minister of state for Textiles

Union Minister of State for Textiles (Independent Charge) Santosh Kumar Gangwar on Tuesday inaugurated Apparel and Garment Making Centre, one of the most ambitious projects launched in the textile sector by the government of India at District Industries Centre Complex, 6th Mile Dimapur in north eastern states. The project was inaugurated in the presence of State Chief Minister TR Zeliang and Additional Secretary Ministry of Textile, GoI Pushpa Subrahmanyam.

Related Keywords: aim of expo to improve and facilitate entrepreneurs, attracted huge buyer seller response, exchange designs and skill, Fifteen days National handloom expo, handicraft, organized jointly by Development Commission for Handloom, sericulture, showcased handloom products created by master weavers, Under Ministry of Textiles and Department of handlooms

The fifteen days National Handloom Expo- 2016 held for the eighteenth time at the Purbasha ground organized jointly by Development Commission for Handlooms, under Ministry of Textiles and Department of Handlooms, Handicraft and Sericulture of Government of Tripura that concluded attracted huge buyers-sellers response where handloom products created by master weavers were showcased.

Related Keywords: a multifaceted designer, Angadi Ventures, development in organized and unorganized sector, handloom industry, House of Angadi, integrated textile parks, legacy in textile trade, mainstays of national economy, New government initiative, Radharaman, sericulture, Textile Industry

Government has set its sights on the development in the organised and unorganised sectors of the textile industry, which is one of the mainstays of the national economy. The initiatives of the government have raised hopes of resurrection of the Indian handloom and textile industries, said K. Radharaman of The House of Angadi, which has a 600-year legacy in the textile trade.

Setting up integrated textile parks, increasing export, development of handlooms, promotion of handicrafts and increasing sericulture are some of the elements the government has stressed upon.

Related Keywords: Commerce and Industries, Govindas Konthoujam, handicraft, Manipur handloom industry, Minister of Sericulture, NERTPS, new textile policy, powerloom, Santosh Gangwar, sericulture, Textile ministery

The Annual Conference of State Textiles Ministers was held on Wednesday at Scope Complex, Lodhi Road where Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Textiles Santosh Gangwar discussed the provisions of the proposed New Textile Policy such as introducing flexible labour laws and setting up integrated textile parks with States.

Participating at the conference, Govindas Konthoujam, Minister of Sericulture, Commerce and Industries, Manipur introduced a brief account of the status of handloom industry in Manipur.

Related Keywords: entire textile sector, garment and fibre, MGNREGA, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, rural job scheme, Santosh Gangwar, sericulture, Textile Minister

Textile Minister Santosh Gangwar had written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi soon after taking charge requesting him to link the entire textile sector, including garments and fibre, to MGNREGA, rural job scheme.

But, the Prime Minister’s Office has ruled out including the entire textile sector under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA). The scheme will link only specific sectors within the textile industry such as handicraft and handloom.

Related Keywords: Dakshina Kannada, queen of textile, sericulture, silk, silk farming, textile fibre

Silk is considered the most important of textile fibres and therefore is called the “queen of textile seems to have lost favour among farmers in Dakshina Kannada, with just 60 farmers taking up silk farming in the district. Due to high prices of rubber and areca, many farmers started taking up plantations of the cash crops.