Study of Growth and Instability in Raw Silk Production and Marketing in India

Abstract

Economic potentials of Sericulture and its popularity are reflected by the fact that it is no longer limited to the traditional areas of sericulture.  Sericulture provides much needed employment, income and foreign exchange in developing and labour rich countries especially India. Keeping these thing in mind, present study was attempt to highlight the growth and instability in production of different varieties of raw silk and also the variations in raw silk marketing system in different states of India. The results showed that raw silk production has an increasing trend and raw silk exchanges markets have direct impact on averages raw silk prices, therefore states which have good marketing infrastructure yields good prices to the produce. In order to achieve the maximum growth rate of this industry, government should come forward to set up maximum number of raw silk exchanges in different states so that variation in raw silk price among states will reduced in one side and role of middle man (buying in one state and selling in other state) gets eliminated.