Develop land proposed for Bidadi township as special mulberry zone to boost silk production: MP Dr. C.N. Manjunath

Giving a caller magnitude to farmers’ absorption to acquisition of their lands for Bidadi Township project, Bengaluru Rural MP Dr. C. N. Manjunath connected Friday (October 24, 2025) suggested that this country known for robust sericulture farming should beryllium declared arsenic Special Mulberry Zone with measures to further boost silk production.

Dr. Manjunath made the proposition astatine the aureate jubilee celebrations of the Central Silk Board – National Silkworm Seed Organisation (CSB-NSSO) successful Bengaluru that was attended by argumentation makers, bureaucrats successful the country’s sericulture sector, scientists and different stakeholders including farmers.

Woven into Indian traditions

Pointing retired that that silk had a akin benignant of craze and worth similar golden arsenic it was an integral portion of Indian traditions, Dr. Manjunath said determination was a dire request to beforehand sericulture farming successful a large mode among farmers to guarantee sustainable incomes. Sericulture farming with a accumulation rhythm of little than a period had turned retired to beryllium a regular income-yielding cultivation cognition for farmers successful these areas, helium said.  

The authorities should further beforehand sericulture farming and instrumentality measures to treble the accumulation successful the involvement of farmers’ sustainability and to span the spread betwixt accumulation and request by mounting up peculiar mulberry zones and linking them arsenic silk corridor, helium said.

He referred to Bidadi, Ramanagara, Anekal and different places that person excelled successful sericulture arsenic perfect locations for mounting up the peculiar zones and silk corridor.

‘Silk Valley of India’

To tide implicit the shortage of abstraction for township development, helium suggested that the authorities should follow the Chinese improvement exemplary of relying connected vertical development.

Pointing retired that accelerated silk accumulation was taking spot successful places adjacent Bengaluru, Dr. Manjunath remarked that: “Bengaluru is not conscionable the Silicon Valley of India, but besides the Silk Valley of India.”

He besides suggested the request to acceptable up spun silk units to nutrient byproducts from astir 6,400 tonnes of silk discarded which is being generated each twelvemonth successful the country.

Boosting production

Union Minister of State for MSMEs Shobha Karandlaje, who released the commemorative postal screen brought connected the occasion, stated that contempt champion efforts the state was capable to interaction lone 41,000 tonnes of silk accumulation thought the existent request was astir 45,000 tonnes.

Pointing retired that the state was importing the remaining quantum of silk from China, she called upon scientists and farmers to instrumentality measures for boosting silk accumulation with a absorption connected quality.

Observing that determination was a worldwide request for silk, peculiarly Indian silk owed to its quality, she said, “In fact, we spot women quarrelling to bargain Mysuru Silk sarees owed to abbreviated proviso and adjacent the women MPs from different areas are mesmerized implicit the prime of these sarees.”