Director Sericulture Jammu and Kashmir Aijaz Ahmad Bhat, Saturday chaired a meeting where in he set the roadmap for 2025-26 silkworm and Cocoon production. A statement issued here ...

Between 2017 and 2023, mulberry plantations had expanded by 1,563 percent, with silk cocoon production rising by 278.67 percent and raw silk production hiking by 760 percent, PTRI had said.

Silkworms spin cocoons that silk producers eventually unravel and join to create the thread. Silk production costs have gone up with the introduction of synthetic fabrics like polyester.

They make silk by hand in a tedious, 30-step process. Craftspeople feed the silkworms every four hours so they spin brilliantly yellow cocoons. And turning those cocoons into silk is even more ...

This festival season, Co-optex will be launching a range of ahimsa pattu sarees to cater to a niche market that shuns silk as conventional production ... worm has spun the cocoon, which is later ...

That's the silk. The silkworms spin this filament into a cocoon. Then the caterpillar begins its transformation. Except, this is when silk producers butt in. The cocoons are steamed. This cleans ...