RAJSHAHI, Dec 07 (BSS): Bangladesh Sericulture Development Board (BSDB) has been implementing three projects involving around Tk 968.3 million (96.83 crore) for improving living and livelihood condition of the grassroots people particularly the distressed women through substantial and sustainable development of the traditional silk sector.
Headquartered in Rajshahi, the BSDB is implementing the projects almost throughout the country particularly the potential regions for the silk worm farming and rearing for achieving sustainable development goals in light of the government's seventh Five Year Plan.
BSDB Director General Abdul Hakim said the projects will supplement the government efforts of building social safety net with transforming the villages into towns in phases upon successful implementation of those by 2023.
Main objective of the five-year project titled "Sericulture Extension and Development" is to generate employment of around 50,000 hardcore poor and landless women for elevating their socio-economic condition through involving them in sericulture.
Another five-year project styled "Poverty Reduction in Hilly Chattogram Districts through Extension and Development of Sericulture" is being implemented in the hilly districts for freeing around 15,000 extreme poor and landless women from poverty through their engagement in silk-related income generation activities.
Apart from this, 15,000 poor and distressed women will get scope of improving their living and livelihood condition through intervention of another five-year project titled "Poverty Reduction in Greater Rangpur districts through Extension of Sericulture".
Hakim said 620-bigha mulberry-cultivated land will be developed for production of 2.35 million silk-eggs and distribution of another 2.3 million saplings among the farmers through implementation of the projects.
"We are going to establish 37 ideal silk villages and 500 mulberry blocks," he said, adding that 43,000-kilogram silk-cocoons will be purchased from the growers.
More than 4,800 farmers will be given support for silk-rearing and 6,300 others will get necessary assistance for mulberry transplantation.
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