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• dispersion and the proportion of the sericulture households;
• size of the village;
• caste composition;
• the span of sericulture in the village;
• the extent of progressiveness and
• the response promptness of the people.
The elimination and selection were made through the information
collected from the sericulture officials and direct field visits. The
prelinlinary information was gathered on the given criteria for 20
sericulture intensive villages spread over 3 taluks of Dharmapuri district
falling under two sericulture divisions namely Dharmapuri and
Pennagaram. Of these villages, six were rejected, based on the
secondary information collected from the officials. A direct field visit
was made to the rest of the villages. Considering the information
regarding the criteria for selection, Seripura 2 , a village under
Pennagaram sericulture division, has been selected for this research.
This village is in Palacode taluk of Dharmapuri district.
The fmdings are' corroborated and compared with the patterns of
some other sericulture areas of Tamil Nadu. Apart from the core field of
study, i.e., Seripura, the main supportive fields include E N Pura in
Palani Taluk and M R Pura in Dindigul Taluk, both falling under
Dindigul District, and K K Pura in Rasipuram Taluk of Salem District
(See the Map). This helps in obtaining a realistic and wider perspective
of the process of the impact. Like in any study on the impact of a
phenomenon, it is not a simple task to isolate the impact of sericulture
Pseudonyms have been used for the study villages and for the names of
inruviduals mentioned in the thesis.
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