MUGA SILK

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• Muga Silkworm Seed Production Centre (SSPC), Tura, Meghalaya is one of the projects taken up directly by Centre Silk Board (CSB) for implementation under Integrated Sericulture Development Project (ISDP) of NERTPS to make the State self-sufficient for production and supply of Muga silkworm seed. 
  
  
• Silk Printing & Processing uniting Agartala, Tripura has been setup at a total project cost of Rs.3.71 crore for production, printing and processing of 1.5 lakh meter silk per annum. 
  
  
• Eri Spun Silk Mill in Sangaipat, Imphal East, Manipur was approved with a total project cost of Rs.21.53 crore. Around 65% of Eri cocoons produced in Manipur are converted into yarn within the State. The project will generate employment to around 1,500 Eri farmers through the backward linkage and around 730 weavers through forward linkage. 
  
  
• The project for development of sericulture in the aspirational district of Mamit, Mizoram, is for development of Seri culture in Mizoram which will focus on creation of pre-& post cocoon activities linkage from raising of silkworm food plant, rearing house, silkworm rearing activities, spinning, weaving along with capacity building.