SERICUL TURE AND THE PROCESS OF CHANGE - Institute for ...

trip on a hired matador to a distant market at Kollegal or Ram ~agar
When a group of sericulturists returns from their marketing trips. those
sericulturists who are awaiting their tum for marketing their cocoons,
throng them for knowing the latest market rates and the prevathng
trends. Though the rates are generally flashed through radio and news
paper, the first-hand information of the fellow sericulturists provides a
realistic picture, facilitating them better, in their choice of the market.
Many a times, such trips turn out to be a sort of merry trips and an
occasion of joy and bliss as it brings them the fruit of their month-long
intensive-labour and anxiety.
It is to be noted that the individual interactions many a times
transcends the boundaries of caste-barriers. It would not be surprising to
see, for instance, even a scheduled caste rearer becoming part of such
companionship, as it has happened in the case of Marimuthu of K K
Pura. It is such aspects in sericulture that overcome the social evils like
untouchability.
Family and Kinship Relations
Familial interaction and kinship collaboration are one of the key
factors in the operation of sericulture enterprise. There are any number
of cases in the study villages, which prove to illustrate the influence of
inter-familial and kinship networks in the adoption as well as in the
successful operation of sericulture.
Family interactions many a times overlap with the individual and
kinship interactions. The general areas of interaction at the family level
include the sharing of rearing space, exchange of equipments, exchange
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