Central Silk Board opens silkworm storage plant in Mysore

The Central Silk Board of India has opened a newly built, state-of-the-art, high-capacity silkworm egg cold storage plant in Mysore. It was inaugurated by the Union Textiles Minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar. The new plant was necessitated due to increasing seed production targets of National Silkworm Seed Organisation (NSSO) and the leading role that Southern India has to assume in the coming years in this area.

Up to 1 crore Disease Free Layings (DFLs) can be comfortably preserved at the plant. In effect, with this plant, the total storage capacity of the Mysore facility would go up to 1.5 crore DFLs, stated the Ministry of Textiles. The size of the cold rooms has been designed to suit the requirements of the sericulture industry and to utilize the space effectively for preserving hibernated bivoltine silkworm seeds under different schedules, ranging from 4 to 10 months.