Catalytic development progarmme (CDP) implemented through the Central silk Board. Under the schemes assistance is provided for entire range of activities from Mulberry plantation to cocoon production and post – cocoon activities.
State Schemes are meant to supplement the efforts being made the Central Schemes. The fund mainly utilized for providing support to societies for purchase of planting materials. Pest protection components, organizing awareness programmes, infrastructure support to cluster, Reeling, Grainage, Sericulture Training Instritute, powerlooms and development of sericulture in Tripura Tribal Area Autonomous District Councils.
Sericulture in Tripura comes under the Department of Handloom, Handicrafts & Sericulture (DHHS) and controlled by the Principal Secretary, Industries & Commerce (HHS), Govt. of Tripura, Agartala at the top. The Director, HHS being the Head of the Department is monitoring Head Quarter, District Offices and Sericulture Clusters. At the base it is run by Primary Cooperative societies (MRCS) which is taking active participation for development of sericulture. In the society, farmers representations is must and one of the official from department act as Managing Director.
The Apex Body of the society (BOD) takes all the decisions for development of the schemes which is being implemented by the Managing Director. The Managing Director implements the scheme with the help of the Cluster-incharge and other field functionaries. Thus, the Managing Director maintaining forward and backward linkages between offices as well as to the farmers.
In Tripura, Sericulture was introduced during 5th five year plan with the recommendation of North Eastern Council with small infrastructure. Initially a sericulture activity was confined only in the Govt. farm. But the impact of sericulture industry was only felt after 1990s. Gradually extension of sericulture was intensified in the village level covering good numbers of interested beneficiaries under state plan fund. The progress of area coverage and cocoon productivity is still low in compare Indian standard. Since tripura falls in rainfed zone, 4 -5 crops are at best harvested in a year by which beneficiary may earn 35-40 thousand in a year from one acre of land.
| Item/ Particular | District wise profile |
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
West Tripura |
Shipahijala |
Khowai |
Gomati |
South |
Dhalai |
Unakoti |
North |
Total |
|
District Office |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
7 |
Manpower |
21 |
15 |
3 |
17 |
20 |
8 |
0 |
19 |
103 |
Sericulture Cluster |
2 |
2 |
1 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
0 |
4 |
18 |
Sericulture villages |
27 |
31 |
3 |
25 |
37 |
28 |
0 |
23 |
174 |
Sericulture Sub-Cluster |
8 |
8 |
4 |
12 |
12 |
12 |
0 |
16 |
72 |
Mulberry Sericulture Societies |
1 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
11 |
Grainage unit |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
01 |
Chawki Rearing Centre |
4 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
5 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
18 |
Plantation |
825 |
975 |
27 |
630 |
950 |
625 |
0 |
468 |
4500 |
Actual & productivity areas |
730 |
880 |
22 |
550 |
840 |
570 |
0 |
433 |
4025 |
Sericulture Training Institute |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
Silk Reeling Unit |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
4 |
Silk Twisting Unit |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
Powerloom Unit |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
Silk Processing & printing Unit |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
Private Grainage |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Outlet of sulk fabrics |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
Status of Raw silk production during XI five year plan (2007-08 to 2011-12) and the target for 2012-13 is furnished below
| No. | Year |
Target for raw silk production (MT.) |
Achievement (MT.) |
|---|---|---|---|
1 |
2007-08 |
6.00 |
5.2 |
2 |
2008-09 |
6.93 |
5.3 |
3 |
2009-10 |
7.00 |
5.12 |
4 |
2010-11 |
7.5 |
6.7 |
5 |
2011-12 |
14.0 |
12.5 |
6 |
2012-13 |
14.0 |
2.9 (upto June, 2012) |