Price of Cocoons

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..... Price of Cocoons
News and Press Release
Dated:- 14-5-2012

Press Information Bureau Government of India Ministry of Textiles 14-May-2012 15:39 IST During the period between April 2011 and March 2012, there was a significant drop in the prices of cocoons in various cocoon markets from about Rs.275/- per Kg. to about Rs.175/- per kg as a result of reduction in prices of raw silk in .....

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..... the domestic market. However, prices improved in the recent months and cocoon prices have gone up to about Rs.220/- per Kg. The Government has taken steps to improve productivity of cocoons and raw silk, strengthen the extension support to the farmers and develop improved seeds and host plants. Government has also permitted import of modern Automatic Reeling machines and Dupion Reeling machines .....

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..... alongwith their accessories and packages at concessional duty of customs to bring down cost of production, and make the sericulture and reeling sector competitive. The estimated demand-supply gap of silk in the country in last 5 years is given below: Years Estimated Demand for Silk in MTs Actual Raw Silk production (MTs) Demand-Supply Gap (in MTs) 2007-08 28,579 18,320 10,259 2008-09 3 .....

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..... 1,381 18,370 13,011 2009-10 31,408 19,690 11,718 2010-11 32,152 20,410 11,742 2011-12 (p) 30,406 23,000 7,406 (p) Provisional The demand supply gap of raw silk is being met through imports, mainly from China. The Government envisages enhancing domestic production of silk through strengthening the existing programme, i.e. Centrally Sponsored "Catalytic Development Programme" (CDP), .....

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..... being implemented by the Government through Central Silk Board (CSB), for development of sericulture and silk industry. Central Silk Board has a proposal to establish an "Institute for Silk and Biomaterial Technology" within the CSB Campus at Kodathi in Bangalore, in collaboration with Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology. CSB has taken up the proposal with the Departm .....

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..... ent of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology and has identified the land for the above. This information was given by the Minister of State for Textiles, Smt. Panabaaka Lakshmi in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today. DS/GK
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