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The Central Silk Board’s (CSB) ‘Mera Resham Mera Abhiman’ (MRMA), a nation-wide sericulture exertion transportation run aimed astatine strengthening India’s sericulture assemblage and empowering the farmers, has been extended till Deepavali.
Though the 100-day MRMA, translated arsenic ‘My Silk My Pride’, was launched by Union Minister for Textiles Giriraj Singh successful Ranchi connected June 19, 2025, the existent programmes, viz. consciousness campaigns among farmers, grooming programmes, and tract demonstrations took disconnected lone by the extremity of the month.
Additionally, farmers crossed the state were engaged with Dasara and Navaratri celebrations during the past week of September. Hence, though the MRMA programme was scheduled to beryllium concluded by September 30, the authorities person decided to widen it by 10 much days till Deepavali.
Explaining the value of the MRMA programme, CSB’s Joint Secretary (Tech) Naresh Babu said sericulture was the livelihood of much than 9.7 cardinal radical crossed 26 States. “Despite India being the 2nd largest shaper of silk successful the world, farmers proceed to look challenges successful adopting precocious technologies owed to constricted consciousness and hold support,” helium said, adding that MRMA was launched to span this captious lab-to-land gap.
A full of 128 scientists from 9 main CSB institutes, including probe and effect units on with 80 sub-units, were straight progressive successful the campaign, reaching the remotest corners of 25 States and 1 Union Territory done consciousness and grooming programmes, covering mulberry, tasara, eri, and muga sectors. The MRMA programme was implemented successful a full of 129 districts crossed the country.
While 1,300 programmes, including consciousness campaigns, grooming programmes, and tract demonstrations, conducted truthful acold person covered an estimated 68,000 farmers, an further 200 programmes are expected to beryllium held implicit the adjacent fewer days till the decision of MRMA, reaching much than 75,000 farmers.
The programme has besides helped scientists place “researchable” problems faced by the farmers portion documenting and adopting farmer-led innovations, helium said.
The MRMA programme, which comes up of the decision of the Silk Samagra programme for expanding the accumulation of silk and raising its prime to planetary standards successful March 2026, would besides assistance CSB place argumentation inputs to devise a caller run aimed astatine helping India scope its people of producing 50,000 tonnes of earthy silk annually by 2030, Mr. Babu said.
