What is Silk and Sericulture?
Silk which spells luxury, elegance and sophistication has been traditionally intermingled with the life and culture of Indians. It is a continuous filament consisting of two types of protein i.e. Sericin & Fibroin, secreted from the silk glands of a matured Silk worm Larva. Sericulture, an agro-based cottage industry, deals with the production of silk. The word Sericulture has been derived from a combination of Latin word Sericum meaning Silk and French word culture meaning Cultivation. It consists of 3 (three) distinct categories of activities:

i) Cultivation & Maintenance of Silk worm Host Plant.
ii) Rearing of silk worm for production of cocoons
iii) Extraction of silk yarn from cocoons i.e. Silk Reeling and other Post Cocoon activities like spinning, twisting, weaving, processing, printing etc.