SILK PRODUCTION IN AFRICA Recently some African countries recognised a great opportunities and potential in sericulture industry. Sericulture industry is a silk industry or silk farming involving rearing of silk worm and a raw silk production. The Sub Saharan African countries have a suitable environmental and climate conditions all year round to grow the mulberry tree which is needed by the silk worms to live, feed and grow. This industry seems to be very promising agricultural enterprise and
thereby increasing employment avenues in rural and backward areas. Government of India has created the rural infrastructure development fund in NABARD to create infrastructure such as irrigation, roads, bridges and market yards in rural areas. D) Sericulture: Jharkhand carries the envious status of producing 60 % of the total Tasar production of the whole country .The Government shall strive to attain the following objectives in a time bound manner. •
• Not resistant to abrasions and sunlight and air impurities, resulting in fading of the color. • Water spots can be easily visible. The fabric should be dry cleaned. • Silk fabric do not resist wrinkle. Producing silk From Cocoon to Yarn : Sericulture has a old history by which silkworms are used to cultivate silk by feeding them on mulberry leaves. The worms increase their body size by almost 10,000 times within a very short span of time. The silk worms stop eating by the end of a month and
Definition of Saree Saree, also known as sari, is a female garment in the Indian subcontinent. A sari is a strip of unstitched cloth, It is from four to nine meters in length, It can draped over the body in various styles. There are various traditional styles of saree: Sambalpuri Saree from East, Mysore silk and Ilkal of Karnataka and, Kanchipuram of Tamil Nadu from South, Paithani from West and Banarasi from North among others. The most common style is for the saree to be wrapped around the waist
by the wife of the Yellow Emperor, Hsi Ling Shi. According to legend, a cocoon fell from the tree above her and unraveled, allowing her to discover the Bombyx mori silkworm. After her discovery she developed the cultivation of silkworms called sericulture (History of Silk, 2012). China had a monopoly on silk trade for thousands of years and arranged the Silk Road; which expanded the trade of silk and other products all over the world. Silk was not available America until the 17th century and today
industry is one of the oldest industries in Indian economy dating from several years back. It is one of the largest employer and also labour intensive. The clothing industry is divided in two broad segments. First, the unorganised sector consists of sericulture, handicraft and handloom which are operated in small scale and through traditional tools and methods. Second, the organised sector consists of apparel, garments and spinning which modern machinery and technologies such as economics of scale. Indian
Silk, sometimes affectionately referred to as the “queen of fibers,” is the strongest natural fiber in the world, and it is used to make expensive cloth. There’s more to silk, though, than being great to make fine garments. Did you know that a thread of silk can be stronger than some kinds of steel? Probably not. We hope to give you more insight into the wonders of silk in our report. THE DISCOVERY OF SILK One of the only – if not the only – documentation on the discovery of silk is an ancient
The Yangtze China, the worlds biggest country, is so large it is the home to the fourth longest river in the world. China alone has over 100,000 miles of inland waterways that are open to navigation. The country's most important inland waterway is the Amur River, but that is nothing compared to the Yangtze River. The Yangtze is one of the most economically important water way of not just China, but of the world! Unlike the Amur River the Yangtze River is not icebound in the winter and because
During the long nineteenth century, political revolutions, industrialization, and European imperialism resulted in dramatic changes in the role of women in Western Europe and Eastern Asia. As industrialization spread in Western Europe, women were no longer able to fulfill their dual role as a mother and a worker. After the introduction of industrialization, laborious tasks were moved from the household to factories and women were forced to choose either the life of a mother or the life of a worker
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WORK UNIVERSITY OF DELHI Assignments MA (SW), Semester III Paper 7204: Occupational Social Work Issues and Concerns of Construction Workers SUBMITTED BY : Ms. SYED BINISH JAWAID SUBMITTED TO : PROF. SANJAI BHATT SUBMITTED ON : 1ST NOV’ 2014 CLASS : M.A. FINAL, 3RD SEMESTER INTRODUCTION The Indian Economy includes a majority of people
Cultural Differences in The Regions of Japan Japan is a country made from four major islands. Though its area is small, each region has different tastes. The country has the population of 123.6 millions according to the 1990 census, or 2.5 % of the world total, and it is the seventh most populated nation according to The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Japan.(5, p.25). Japanese political and economical world power has been one of the success stories of the twentieth century. Though small in geographic
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 OVERVIEW OF SMALL SCALE INDUSTRIES In India, the small-scale industrial sector has been a key contributor to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This sector in India is measured to have a huge growth panorama with its wide range of products. With 40% contribution in total industrial output and 35% contribution towards exports, the small-scale industrial sector in India is performing as the engine of expansion. 1.1.1 SMALL-SCALE INDUSTRY: A CONCEPT In the course of passing
1. Introduction The Tata Group is a 140 year old multinational conglomerate with headquarters at Mumbai, India [1]. It is one of the respected companies in the world [2]. It has 96 Companies with 350,000 Employees across 80 countries and with a yearly turnover of 62.5 Billion USD (2007-2008) [2] [3]. TATA business sectors are materials, energy, engineering, consumer products, technology, services, chemicals and communications & information. The major companies in TATA group are Tata Motors, Tata
Bilingual Education Bilingual education has been a politicized topic of debate for years. There are many whom support bilingual education being incorporated into students’ curriculums while others are adamant that it should not be a part of the classroom. Those that are opponents of bilingual education seem to fear the idea of students being exposed to a second language or becoming proficient in two languages. Bilingual education has many dimensions and definitions, which can cause some confusion
A Comparison of the Chemical Structures and Production Methods of Silk and Artificial Silk Abstract Despite their seemingly similar exteriors, the chemical structures and production methods of natural silk and the artificial silks rayon and nylon are quite different. Silk yarn, extracted from the cocoon of the Bombyx mori moth, is made up of fibroin molecules with beta-pleated sheet secondary structures. The fibroin molecules consist of crystalline fibers constructed of regularly paralleled
Monkeys are haplorhine primates, a group generally possessing tails and consisting of about 260 known living species. Many monkey species are tree-dwelling (arboreal), although there are species that live primarily on the ground, such as baboons. Most species are also active during the day (diurnal). Monkeys are generally considered to be intelligent, particularly Old World monkeys. There are two major types of monkey: New World monkeys (platyrrhines) from South and Central America and Old World