Kerala is a relatively new entrant into sericulture field. Agriculture plays a crucial role in the Kerala economy in spite of its low per-capita availability of cultivable land. An integrated mixed cropping pattern is practiced in the State by majority of the farmers considering the land holding size. However the state has made considerable advancements in sericulture especially bivoltine sericulture. Kerala is one of the few states in India where bivoltine sericulture is practiced to the tune of 100%. The national level bivoltine technlogy adoption is just 5% in spite of intensive promotional efforts.
Recently Kerala has launched a poverty eradication project, "SERISREE", through intensive promotion of sericulture among the people Below Poverty Line (BPL).
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