Regional Disparity in Sericulture Development in Karnataka - A Statistical Analysis
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Date
2012
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UAS, Dharwad
Abstract
Sericulture has a special place among the agro-based cottage industry of our
country. Sericulture industry supported millions of rural people in our country by way
of providing employment. Sericulture in India has turned out to be a highly
remunerative enterprise with minimum capital base and yielding reasonably good
returns vis-à-vis other enterprises. The development of sericulture and the factors
affecting regional disparity with respect to sericultural development studied in detail
using ten important sericultural development indicators. The study pertained to
Karnataka state and its component districts. The secondary data were collected for a
period of 20 years depending on the availability of the data starting from 1990-1991
to 2009-2010, pertaining to ten important sericultural development indicators like area
under mulberry, egg production, cocoon production, raw silk production, number of
mulberry producing villages, number of markets, number of grainage centers, number
of chalky centers, number of reeling centers, rainfall.
The Mahalanobis D2 analysis (distance statistics) was employed to know the
extent of regional disparity, factors affecting regional disparity and to classify the
districts based on sericulture development. The results revealed that districts were
highly despair with respect to sericultural development and the area under mulberry
production, egg production, cocoon production and raw silk production were the
major factors affecting regional disparity followed by number of mulberry producing
villages, number of grainage centers and number of markets. All the 20 districts were
grouped into three clusters and the three clusters were categorized into three groups as
highly developed, moderately developed and low developed using the sericultural
development index formed. With this optimistic scenario, priority should be given to
major development indicators and there is need to undertake developmental measures
in low developed and moderately developed districts to reduce regional disparity in
the state.