Tajikistan

Brief summary about sericulture in Tajikistan : The silk branch of Tajikistan has deep historical roots. Recent years, thanks to the government's initiative a purposeful work is going on in the direction of silk goods production increase and strengthening of export potential of enterprises. Now structure of the “Pilla” association, under the Ministry of industry includes 59 enterprises engaged in preparation and primary processing of cocoons: 3 regional associations including 42 cocoon dry ing enterprises , 2 silkworm egg factor ies , 1 parental silkworm egg production station , 3 facilities for mulberry saplings production , 2 silk-reeling factor ies , and also 2 joint venture s , sericulture experimental station , 2 auto - enterprises, 2 silk-weaving factories. Tajikistan produces 10-12 tons of pure-line seed cocoons and more than 1.5-2.0 millions of mulberry seedlings annually . Totally the Republic produces 3000 – 3150 tons of fresh cocoons or 1.2 – 1.26 thousands tons of dry cocoons a year. For this 60-90 thousands of boxes of silkworm eggs (1 box=29 g), 2 silk-reeling factories with an output of 354.9 tons are prepared, but they produce only 133-230 tons of raw silk; 2 silk-weaving factories with an output potential of 11406 meters produce about 5703.5 meters of silk fabric. Work on increase of economic potential of the branch is going on at all production stages, starting with increase of fodder basis for cocoon raw materials preparation, cocoon processing and till ready made fabric production, its advertisement and advancement in the world market. Attention is being paid to such problems as braking of economic relations which lead to production decrease. Tajikistan tries to find ways of solving problems of restoration and development of sericulture industry and small silk enterprises both in scientific and production aspects.

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