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Modern cocoon market to come up in Karnataka's Sidlaghatta
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Chikkaballapur (Karnataka) [India], March 12 (ANI): Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Saturday said Sidlaghatta along with Kalaburagi and Haveri to be included in the project to build modern cocoon markets.
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J-K govt starts scheme to provide production based incentives to cocoon fa
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Anantnag (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], November 25 (ANI): The Sericulture Development Department (SDD) of the Jammu and Kashmir government has started a novel scheme to provide production-based incentives for cocoon farmers of Anantnag and Kulgam districts of South Kashmir.
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Farmers in J-K's Udhampur generate good revenue from sale of cocoons throu
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Udhampur (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], July 14 (ANI): Farmers practicing sericulture in the Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir are generating good revenue from the sale of cocoons at the auction market organised by the Sericulture Development Department.
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CocoonIT Services helps enterprises harness digital transformation through
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 29 (ANI/SRV Media): Businesses are rapidly embracing digitization and CocoonIT Services Pvt Ltd has been a steady transformation partner for various large and small enterprises.
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J-K government begins rearing process of cocoons to increase silk producti
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], June 28 (ANI): As sericulture plays a significant role in generating employment for the locals in the Valley, the administration of Jammu and Kashmir has been taking significant steps placing emphasis on the rearing process of cocoons to boost the produc
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Fighting all odds, Kerala woman who once sold lemonade, ice cream to survi
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], June 27 (ANI): From her cocoon of anonymity, when life forced Anie Siva, then an 18-year-old woman to sell lemonade and ice cream to tourists at Varkala, she never thought to come off with flying colours to be a police inspector at the same place.
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J-K Sericulture Dept supervises mulberry pruning aimed at boosting cocoon
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], June 7 (ANI): Pruning operations of mulberry trees are currently being undertaken to boost cocoon production in the Kashmir valley.
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Discover Hong Kong's great outdoors with Nat Geo explorers Astrid Anderson
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 30 (ANI/Mediawire): The global world city, Hong Kong may be known for being one of the most densely populated cities in the world, cocooned in a thicket of gleaming skyscrapers.
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COVID effect: Delayed cocoon auction in J-K's Udhampur affects quality, pr
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Udhampur (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], December 21 (ANI): Like all other sectors, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has also hit the Jammu and Kashmir sericulture, not just delaying the Udhampur Sericulture Department's cocoon auction by over two months, but also bringing the prices to almost hal
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Govt sets up cocoon auction market in Srinagar
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Jammu & Kashmir [India], October 4 (ANI): The government has set up a cocoon auction market in Srinagar for the benefit of farmers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Study finds silk offers homemade solution for COVID-19 prevention
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Cincinnati (Ohio) [US], September 24 (ANI): With personal protective equipment still in short supply, researchers at the University of Cincinnati examined what common household fabrics might work best as a face covering.
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Rearing process of cocoons in full swing to boost silk production in Kashm
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], September 5 (ANI): Since the sericulture sector plays a significant role in generating employment for the local people in Jammu and Kashmir, the local authorities in the Kashmir Valley are focusing on increasing the production of mulberry fruit crops alo
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