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Ind. Jn. of Agri. Econ. Vol. 63, No. 4, Oct.-Dec. 2008 Performance of Large Scale Farming in Sericulture Œ An Economic Analysis P. Kumaresan *, R.G. Geetha Devi*, S. Rajadurai**, N.G. Selvarajuƒ and H. Jayaram* I INTRODUCTION India is the second largest producer of mulberry raw silk, next only to China, accounting more than 15 per cent of the global raw silk production. The total annual production of raw silk in India was 18.76 thousand tonnes, of which mulberry raw silk output aggregated to about 17.31 thousand tonnes during 2006-07. However, the productivity and quality of the silk produced in India is comparatively lower than that of advanced silk producing countries such as China and Japan. Further, the cost of production of the silk is also higher than that in many other countries. One of the major reasons attributable for lower pro ductivity and quality is small-scale operations by the farmers and reelers and the adoption of traditional technologies for the production of cocoons and raw silk. Sericultural operations are mostly confined to small or medium scale mostly with the mulberry holdings ranging from 0.5 acre to 2 acres in India due to the labour intensive nature and the personal care requi red for silkworm rearing operations. As the improved technologies evolved by the research institutes of the country have increased the crop stability and considerab ly reduced the labour dependence for silkworm rearing operations, large-scale or commercial farming has now become economically viable and is becoming popular especially among progressive farmers and educated persons. It is hypothesised that high production and cost efficiency and quality are characteristic of large-scale sericultu ral farming. In this context, this study has been taken up to examine the performan ce of large-scale farming in sericulture through the measurement of productivity and economic differences between large and small scale sericulture farming and anal yse the sources of such differences. *Central Sericultural Research and Training Institute, Central Silk Boar d, Mysore, Karnataka, **Research Extension Centre, Central Silk Board, Madiwala, Kolar Di strict, Karnataka and ƒResearch Extension Centre, Central Silk Board, Udumalpet, Coimbatore District, Tamil Nadu, respectively.
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