An Empirical Study of Cocoon Production in Jammu and Kashmir

Sericulture is agro-based labour intensive and cottage industry best suited for small land holdings which require little investment for production. Sericulture involves two distinct activities, cocoon and raw silk production. The important contributing factor for cocoon production is mulberry leaves, disease free layings, labour and disinfected charges on pests. The focus of this paper was on the input-output relation of cocoon production. For this purpose Cobb-Douglas production was used and result states that all coefficients were found significant both at 1% and 5% level of significance. However, it is disease free layings and mulberry leaves which contributes more in cocoon production than others factors like labours used for rearing and disinfected charges on pests.