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It aims at increasing area under mulberry cultivation Rearing appliances will be given to 25 farmers Tirupur: To help textile manufacturers meet the increasing demand for clothes made of finer silk, the Department of Sericulture will promote bivoltine sericulture within the recently notified areas of Tirupur district at a cost of Rs. 32.5 lakh. The scheme, to be implemented adopting a cluster-based approach at Udumalpet block, aims at increasing the area coverage under mulberry cultivation by another 125 acres before March 31 and the yield of bivoltine cocoon by an additional 2 kg from every bunch of 100 silkworm eggs or dfls (disease free layings). At present, 405.05 acres are under mulberry cultivation in Udumalpet block and the yield of bivoltine cocoon from the region stands at 63 kg from 100 dfls. Commissioner of Sericulture Harmander Singh told ‘The Hindu’ here that under the cluster promotion project, subsidy assistance would be extended to the farmers to establish a total of 25 rearing sheds to the tune of 50 per cent of the unit cost of Rs. 1 lakh and drip irrigation systems to cover 50 acres of mulberry cultivation. Besides, rearing appliances like shoot harvesters, racks and compressed power sprayers worth Rs. 30,000 each will be given to 25 farmers. “We will also disburse incentives at the rate of Rs. 3,000 for every acre of the additional 125 acres of mulberry plantation conceptualised in the scheme,” Mr. Singh said. The department has planned to give advanced training on bivoltine sericulture to select 50 farmers from the block at the Tamil Nadu Sericulture Training Institute, Hosur, in January. According to Mr. Singh, bivoltine sericulture will give value-addition to the farmers as they will be able to harvest a kilogram of internationally graded white silk (ie bivoltine silk) from about 6 kg of cocoon against a kilogram of yellow silk obtained from about 9 kg of cocoon under traditional mulberry cultivation.
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