Sericulture: An opportunity for the upliftment of rural livelihood

Abstract

Livelihood generation is one of the major potentials of sericulture and silk industry. Sericulture has emerged as the most important cash crop with minimum investment, low gestation period, high employment potential and highly remunerative return. It is well suited to the agrarian economy of the rural people. Sericulture is suitable for every section of society including a big farmer or a landless aged person irrespective of man or a woman. Involves simple technology, which is easy to understand and adopt. Sericulture has provided downstream employment and income generation in rural and semi-urban areas, high participation for low-income and socially under privileged groups. In this review an attempt has been made to investigate that how sericulture fulfill the opportunities of livelihood for rural people and concluded with some suggestions to improve the long term feasibility of sericulture.