The Cooperative Silk Farms of Ramanagara That Supply 60% of India’s Raw Silk
On a Monday morning in the Ramanagara Cocoon Market, the largest raw silk cocoon trading hub in Asia, a farmer named Manjunath from Channapatna taluk watches as his weekly harvest of bivoltine cocoons fetches ₹485 per kilogram — nearly ₹70 more than what he earned this time last year. He credits his local sericulture cooperative … Read more