BSS, Rajshahi :
The present government is pledged bound to revitalise the silk sector after the best uses of the existing potentialities through boosting local yarn.
Various time-fitting measures were adopted so that the lost glory of silk sector can be revived within near future.
Secretary to Textile and Jute Ministry Mijanur Rahman revealed this while addressing a view-sharing meeting with officials and employees of Bangladesh Silk Development Board (BSDB) at its conference hall in Rajshahi city yesterday.
He urged the BSDB people to discharge their duties with utmost competency, sincerity and honesty to supplement the government endeavor of fostering the silk sector.
Chaired by BSDB Director General Abdul Hakim, the meeting was addressed, among others, by its Members Syeda Zebinnissa Sultana, Nasima Khatun and Abdul Mannan and Director of Bangladesh Sericulture Research and Training Institute (BSRTI) Monsur Ali.
Secretary Mijanur Rahman said importance should be given on providing necessary support and inputs like disinfectant eggs, high yielding mulberry plants, technical support and soft loan for construction of rearing house along with ensuring sound marketing facilities.
Mr Rahman said sericulture, a labor- intensive agro- based industry, is ideally suited to the socio-economic condition of the country and the sector cover both agriculture and industry.
Referring to various positive aspects of the sector he also said promotion and expansion of sericulture throughout the country could contribute a lot to eradicate the acute poverty of the hardcore people of the rural Bangladesh.
As a cottage industry, all family members can work and earn supplementary income in sericulture and it facilitate four to five crops in a year and ensure more income requiring less investment and training.
Abdul Hakim told the meeting that BSDB has taken initiative to revive the silk industry. Accordingly, several projects have already been adopted. A project has been taken to identify char and khas lands for silk farming.
In the last fiscal year, the board distributed four lakh mulberry saplings. Sericulture has been incorporated in the ‘Ekti Bari, Ekti Khamar (EBEK)’ project for strengthening the agro-based economy through reviving the lost glory of sericulture.
The present government is pledged bound to revitalise the silk sector after the best uses of the existing potentialities through boosting local yarn.
Various time-fitting measures were adopted so that the lost glory of silk sector can be revived within near future.
Secretary to Textile and Jute Ministry Mijanur Rahman revealed this while addressing a view-sharing meeting with officials and employees of Bangladesh Silk Development Board (BSDB) at its conference hall in Rajshahi city yesterday.
He urged the BSDB people to discharge their duties with utmost competency, sincerity and honesty to supplement the government endeavor of fostering the silk sector.
Chaired by BSDB Director General Abdul Hakim, the meeting was addressed, among others, by its Members Syeda Zebinnissa Sultana, Nasima Khatun and Abdul Mannan and Director of Bangladesh Sericulture Research and Training Institute (BSRTI) Monsur Ali.
Secretary Mijanur Rahman said importance should be given on providing necessary support and inputs like disinfectant eggs, high yielding mulberry plants, technical support and soft loan for construction of rearing house along with ensuring sound marketing facilities.
Mr Rahman said sericulture, a labor- intensive agro- based industry, is ideally suited to the socio-economic condition of the country and the sector cover both agriculture and industry.
Referring to various positive aspects of the sector he also said promotion and expansion of sericulture throughout the country could contribute a lot to eradicate the acute poverty of the hardcore people of the rural Bangladesh.
As a cottage industry, all family members can work and earn supplementary income in sericulture and it facilitate four to five crops in a year and ensure more income requiring less investment and training.
Abdul Hakim told the meeting that BSDB has taken initiative to revive the silk industry. Accordingly, several projects have already been adopted. A project has been taken to identify char and khas lands for silk farming.
In the last fiscal year, the board distributed four lakh mulberry saplings. Sericulture has been incorporated in the ‘Ekti Bari, Ekti Khamar (EBEK)’ project for strengthening the agro-based economy through reviving the lost glory of sericulture.
