Sericulture Is Boon and Tradition: Growth and Development of Silk Industry in Various Districts of Tamil Nadu 2016 - 2020

Abstract Sericulture activities are highly successive and productive in nature. Sericulture is a source of providing employment to the marginal people. It is astonishing to know that sericulture industry is providing gainful employment to 60 lakhs of people every year in India. This sector employs one man throughout the year for producing every 3.07 kg of silk produced and used in handlooms. This potential is very high and no other industry generates this kind of employment, especially in rural areas. Sericulture is highly suitable to small and marginal farmers, because of its capacity to generate a high income with comparatively less investment Economically benefit in different stages of silk industry like mulberry cultivation, silkworm rearing, reeling, twisting, dying and weaving. Every stage is income generating in silk industry like sericulturists to weavers. The study result showed that the area under Mulberry plant and silk worm production has increased in various districts of Tamil Nadu. It also reveals the employment generation and new planting areas also has steep lift in various districts of Tamil Nadu