Factors affecting production of Silk yarn and Cocoon in Assam

The sericulture industry of India has a very high potential of supplying more employment and source of income than what is being currently supplied by the industry.Sericulture is found to be a very important practice of tribal life and practice by around 1.5 lakh tribal people of states like Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, and Andhra Pradesh.The growth rates of both silk yarn and employment by the sericulture industry in Assam are not continuous and seamless.This study reveals a few years of the negative trend in the case of silk yarn production by the state.Analysis of the production data shows that the trend line of silk production in the state has fluctuation.The production quantity of different types of silk in Assam also has variations.The main aim of this study is to understand the relationship among the number of sericulture villages, the number of the family engaged in sericulture, the area under food plants, number of cocoons and silk yarn produced in Assam.It was found that the increased number of sericulture villages, the number of families engaged in different sericulture, and the area under food plants are not clearly ensuring more cocoon and raw silk production in the state.