After closing down the Chandrapur Silk Basic Seed Multiplication & Training Centre (BSMTC) unit in Maharashtra, the Central Silk Board (CSB) established a new BSMTC in Bhandara, also in Maharashtra to ensure continuity of supply of DFLs and silkworm eggs to silk farmers in the state. The Central Silk Board (CSB) had earlier established a BSMTC at Chandrapur for production and supply of basic tasar seeds to the state owned Pilot Project Centers (PPCs) for further multiplication and supply of tasar farmers. The tasar seed production and seed cocoon generation at BSMTC, Chandrapur was adversely affected continuously due to opening of coal mines and other industrial establishments in and around the tasar farms and surrounding operational areas of the Centre.
In order to promote sericulture industry in the country, Govt. of India through CSB is implementing ‘Catalytic Development Programme’(CDP) during the XII Plan period, in collaboration with all the State Sericulture Departments, including Maharashtra.
