About Centre for Rural Enterprise Acceleration through Technology:
- It will enhance local productivity, product quality, and economic potential and improve livelihoods for the local communities.
- It will help advance rural industrialization and foster enterprise creation, to retain the traditional artisans particularly in regions like Ladakh.
- CREATE will provide
- A Pashmina Wool Roving Facility.
- Training for development of production facility for Essential Oil Extraction from Roses and Other Flowers and Training for development of production facility for Bio-processing of available fruits and other raw materials.
- The machinery required for Pashmina wool roving has been installed, commissioned and is ready for operation.
What is Pashmina Wool?
- Pashmina refers to a fine variant of spun cashmere (the animal-hair fibre), that is derived from the downy undercoat of the Changthangi.
- Pashmina is obtained from a breed of mountain goats (Capra hircus) found on the Changthang Plateau in Tibet and parts of Ladakh.
