Centre for Rural Enterprise Acceleration through Technology (CREATE)

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.