CONTENTS:- - The Silk Industry. - Silk Worms and Food Plants. - Sericulture in Assam. - Silk Industry of Sualkuchi. - The Case Study. - Investment, Employment and Income. - Silk Products and Marketing. - Problem of the Silk Industry.
DESCRIPTION
Silk is the perennial queen of textiles. It is very light, elegant, smooth and lustrous as we all know, Even royalty, such as the Queen of England and other are happy to be attried in Chinese or Japanese silks.
In Assam silk fabric is the national dress and worn on special occassions. Inspite of the host of competing glossy fabrics and man made fibres, the silk fabric is the most preferred, to those who can afford it. Sericulture, on which the silk industry survives, is by far the best rural industry, to provide jobs and generate income in the rural areas. It also helps creating a humanized habitat of green cover in the face of the increasing ecological degradation around us.
