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The Central Silk Board (CSB) has released two high productive silkworm breeds – Bivoltine double hybrids ( and improved cross breed for large-scale field trials.
Union Minister for Commerce, Industries and Textiles Anand Sharma released the breeds that will undergo large-scale field trials in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.
These breeds have been developed by the CSB scientists and it is expected to enhance farmers’ income significantly.
The Minister also launched the new vanya silk products made out of mill spun eri silk yarn, an outcome of joint research by CSTRI- Bangalore and NIFT-TEA knitwear Fashion Institute Tirupur, CSB and NIFT-TEA.
Sharma also launched Silk Mark India Fusion Label that gets integrated with the silk fabric.
Speaking on the occasion, Sharma called upon the stakeholders of sericulture and silk industry to help India to emerge as major silk producing and silk goods exporting country of the world.
He also assured to the stakeholders that there would be no roll back on the duty hike on imported raw silk.
Sharma also assured that the Centre will consider hiking custom duty on imported Chinese silk fabrics.
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