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• n  raising silkworms in order to obtain raw silk
• n  the production of raw silk by raising silkworms

• Organized trade is ancient: silk did not get to Rome because the Romans figured out sericulture; someone imported it from China.
• Japanese farmers clop-clopped about their sericulture more cheerfully, for the sudden demand had shot raw silk prices 82% above the June low of $1.

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• Sharad Pawar in SINDH TODAY
  The mulberry acreage will be increased to 213,000 hectares this fiscal from 190,000 hectares and provide irrigation facility to about 10,000 hectares to boost the sericulture sector which has been reeling under the onslaught of cheap imports from... Dayanidhi Maran http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayanidhi_Maran&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNE6oknKDCZfAP55N1n5RTOX7Mhk8g Business Standard http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/textile-park-may-get-rs-200-cr-investments/400305/&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFOUKSxlXmXqTfV_NCV6NpN9_U8aQ Jul 4, 2010 88398 117885 sericulture In the Integrated Farming System approach, there is appropriate combination of crop husbandry, livestock, horticulture, vegetable, goatry, piggery, fishery, apiculture, mushroom, sericulture etc. This project will help to improve the livelihood of...