Sericulture is an agro-based and economically rewarding enterprise consisting of several sets of activities and plays a predominant role in shaping the economic destiny of the rural people with lot of employment potentiality. The production process of silk fabric contains a long chain of interdependent operations i.e. cultivation of mulberry, silkworm seed production, silkworm rearing, silk production, twisting, warp and weft making, dyeing and printing, spun silk production, finishing of silk fabric, designing of silkgarments etc., that provides medium of livelihood to rural and semi urban people. India is blessed with favourable climatic conditions throughout the year and availability of human resource remained the advantage to the Indian silk Industry. Sericulture provides rich dividends with low investment and profitable return within short gestation period and provides employment throughout the year. It is obvious that, sericulture plays a pivotal role in economic development of the country by generating employment, income, as well as foreign exchange.
