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indication in the activity profile of the sericulturists that there are as
many as about five per cent of the work force in sericulture families ,
who are involved in higher salaried jobs.
Sericulture Adoption and Performance
A successful operation of sericulture involves intensive efforts
with effective inputs, contributing to its development in all its
dimensions, involving its improvement in breadth, depth and length. The
breadth implies its adoption or expansion. The depth implies its volume
or productivity. The length implies its longevity or sustainability.
Expansion and sustainability constitute the two sides of the same coin.
In a way, both are very much related to one another and are very much
affected by similar factors. Productivity, which is also affected by
similar and related factors, is itself one of the crucial factors in
expansion and sustainability (Gregory 1994c).
An analysis of the various factors affecting the adoption and
performance of sericulture is essential in understanding the process of
sericulture in a wider perspective. The effort here is to basically look at
sericulture and its development through socio-economic and cultural
factors. It is complementary to the perspective that looks at society and
the socio-cultural institutions and relations through sericulture, which
forms the second part of this study.
Studies have shown that sericulture has proved to be highly
remuneratIve with high yield returns (e.g., Hanumappa 1986;
Rajapurohit and Govindaraju 1986). However, remuneration and high
returns are subject to variation, depending on certain factors. Sericulture
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