Chief Secretary RS Sharma on Wednesday said that strengthening tasar plantation and lac cultivation with high value addition has high employment potential in the State.
The CS said at a meeting to improve tasar plantation and lac cultivation and its convergence with other Government schemes. The capital investment is also low. Sericulture and lac cultivation like pisciculture, dairy and rubber plantation are the allied livelihood activities of the State, he said.
Sharma focussed on scaling up of cocoon rearing as an integrated programme for development of sericulture. He suggested devising a robust micro-level plan by strategically identifying land, panchayats and the beneficiaries and a mechanism to ensure timely fund-flow. He also said to allot a project ID and a web-based information system as scalability and replication of the projects are very important. He also emphasised on broodlac production.
At the meeting, Jharcraft Managing Director Dhirendra Kumar presented a draft vision document on sericulture. Principal Secretary Personnel SK Sathpathy, Principal Secretary IT NN Sinha, Agriculture Secretary NM Kulkarni, Industries Secretary Vandana Dadel along with others were also present at the meeting.