Silk in the Indian subcontinent

Colours of India — silk yarn waiting to be made into sarees, Kanchipuram.

In India, about 97% of the raw mulberry silk is produced in the Indian states of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal.[1] Mysore and North Bangalore, the upcoming site of a US$20 million "Silk City", contribute to a majority of silk production.[2] Another emerging silk producer is Tamil Nadu in the place in where mulberry cultivation is concentrated in Salem, Erode and Dharmapuri districts. Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh and Gobichettipalayam, Tamil Nadu were the first locations to have automated silk reeling units.[3]

  1. ^ "Sericulture - Brief Note on Sericulture". Archived from the original on 2012-05-27. Retrieved 2016-03-20.
  2. ^ "Silk city to come up near B'lore". deccanherald.com. 17 October 2009. Archived from the original on 15 July 2015.
  3. ^ "Tamil Nadu's first automatic silk reeling unit opened". The Hindu. 24 August 2008. Archived from the original on 11 May 2018 – via www.thehindu.com.