Vol. 11, Special Issue 8 (2022)

Author(s):
Rakhi Kori, MK Dubey, Ajay Raut, A Shrivastava, Kamini Bisht and Kalpana Shrivastava

Abstract:
In tasar silk cultivation, sericulture farmers faced many problems during host plant cultivation and silkworm rearing. Therefore, the present study was carried out in Bastar district of Chhattisgarh to enumerate the constraints faced by sericulture farmers and also tried to pool out the possible suggestions as orated by respondents themselves. A total of 214 sericulture farmers were selected randomly as respondents. The data collection was done by the use of interview schedule through personal interview and appropriate statistical measures like frequency, percentage were applied to analyze the data. The study listed out the constraints in different areas such as host plant cultivation, silkworm rearing and marketing, enumerated by sericulture farmers like; lack of knowledge on planting method, rearers were not getting the eggs/worms at time, adequate quality & numbers and uncertainty of remunerative returns is major constraints faced by sericulture farmers. The main suggestions given by them to improving their managerial efficiency were “government should announce minimum support price for cocoons” followed by training should be provided on processing of cocoons”. Therefore, the concerned department and organizations need to pay attention to their problems in order to solve these and make the sericulture farmers more efficient.