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

with other related agencies and fellow entrepreneurs from different
areas.
7. The frequent and substantial returns from the enterprise allow the
main participants to claim credit for the achievement and assert their
economic capacity. The same accomplishment, nevertheless, equally
demands a due recognition to be given to the other active and to a
certain extent to the passive supporters too, within the family, if the
enterprise has to sustain successfully.
Al] these unique features are bound to reflect ill the labour
relations, family structure and interaction networks.
Sericulture Expansion in Seripura: Sericulture has not been
adopted by all households because of some of the inherent limitations.
Nevertheless, it becomes a point of talk for all the people in the village.
For most of the sericulturists in Seripura, sericulture is not an obsession
but a hay of life. It comes into their life once in every two-months,
though at different times for different people. It makes their life-line
active, stays there for about a month and goes away, only to return after
two months.
Sericulture set into Seripura in 1971 and sustained for long,
without any break in its life span for over twenty years. It bas been
growing except for some marginal declines in the inter-mediate periods.
There has been a steep rise in the adoption of sericulture since 1989,
leading to a considerable expansion in area and in the number of
sericulturists. Presently, about one fourth of the total number of
households in the village has been practising sericulture.
Sericulture was started in the village, with an initial operation of
just 0.5 acres of mulberry area. In the process of its growth in the next
22 years, the area has been changing in its extension, with new
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