期刊名称：International Journal of Humanities & Social Science Studies
印刷版ISSN：2349-6711
电子版ISSN：2349-6959
出版年度：2015
卷号：1
期号：6
页码：13-18
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出版社：Scholar Publications
摘要：Artisanal silk industry, being low-capital intensive with low gestation periods and assured returns suits a vast marginal class including landless farmers, low-skilled artisans and rural women with low opportunity cost of getting employed elsewhere. However, despite having high land productivities and generation-borne technical skill, artisanal silk industry is far from its desired position. The reality is that the rural artisanal silk sector is dwindling in West Bengal. The paper tries to focus on few pertinent issues of West Bengal sericulture against the backdrop of its national scenario. Primary survey on Malda district of West Bengal exposes that cost of raw materials including implements; loans taken by the artisans irrespective of its source of collection and mandays creation for this avocation are significantly enhancing annual income flow generated by the sericultural family. In order to improvise this situation an effective institutional effort is required so that poor sericulture farmers can receive sufficient credit benefit to sustain this rural industry. All the extension work whether it is at State Government Co-operative level or Central Silk Board level, needs to be synchronized, intensive, time-bound and target oriented to regain the past glory of Bengal artisanal silk industry. JEL Classification: R20, R30, O15, Key Words: Artisanal Silk, Income, Sericulture, Artisans, West Bengal.
