A study on envisioning the export of sericulture industry in India- A Spatiotemporal Analysis

Indian sericulture industry employees 9.2 million people in the semi urban and rural arears across the country. Sericulture industry is the economy producer compare to other agricultural products with this the country is 2nd largest exporter of mulberry, Eri, muga and Tasar silk because of the great traditional background and a strong domestic market. India’s climatic conditions is one greatest benefit for the high production. A major contributors states are Karnataka, Andra Pradesh, Assam, Tamil Nadu and Jharkhand in the nations sericultural output, these states occupy 97% of mulberry production a pure form of silk. The current global scenario opens enormous opportunities for the silk export in the sericulture industry. In 2022-2023 silk and silk products of India stood at ₹ 22,859 million (US$276.84 million). China is the 1st producer of silk in the world and its contributions stands at 2023.21million (US $ 24.5 million) in 2023 but in 2022 China is the top export of silk of USD $ 276 million and India’s top imported in 2022 is USD $221 million. According to the Annual Report published by the Central silk board (CBS) for the year 2021-2022 raw silk production is 34,903 metric tonnes, own production is 33770 metrics tonnes, Raw silk imports are 1804 metric tonnes and silk exports are worth USD 277 million. India Sericulture villages are 52360 total sericulture families in India is 947631 employment is about 7.52 people. The study analysis’s the market dynamics and the exports data and export destination of silk products also the competitive advantages with challenges that Indian sericulture exporters are faced by, sericulture is the only crop highest’s economy generating.