Silky coating

KENYA

Silken feed

Super silk

Spider gene unravelled

One-man show

An Army Captain-turned-farmer traces the silk route to success

Silk route to success

With the launch of a sericulture project in Vidisha, a district in Madhya Pradesh, the lifestyle of the rural women undergoes a metamorphosis

Spin it like spider

Modified silkworms created to spin spider silk

Stop replication

Viral genome reveals the way to check attacks on tassar

Hanging by a silk

It’s flexible yet tougher than a bullet-proof jacket. Are we anywhere near deciphering the fibre?

Sericultured

A new silk route out of China

The Asian giant unravels the most extensive genetic mapping of the silkworm

A sultan’s silken dreams

Let us, for a moment, forget about Tipu Sultan’s alleged iconoclasm and remember him for a remarkable personal achievement—laying the …

Focus shifts to man-made fibre

Farmers sidelined in draft national fibre policy

The fundamental shift

Return to the basics: create jobs in the hinterland

Losing shine

Falling profits discourage silk farmers

Identity crisis

Whether bamboo is a grass or a tree is a question of survival for many

Living off leaves

Sal leaf trade has enormous potential but suffers abject neglect

At which road head?

Not the path of economic growth, but the trail leading back to the village is the answer

Silk care to protect skin from UV rays

Jobs Jobs Jobs

The government is obsessed with economic growth. Employment is bound to follow, it claims. That's a delusion. The swelling numbers of unemployed …

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