<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <article key="pdf/16550" mdate="2013-07-22 00:00:00"> <author>S. K. Dewangan and K. R. Sahu and S. K. Patnayak and S. Soni</author> <title>Sericulture for Employment Generation among the Tribal A Study of Two Trible Block of Raigarh Dist. C.G. India</title> <pages>731 - 734</pages> <year>2013</year> <volume>7</volume> <number>7</number> <journal>International Journal of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering</journal> <ee>https://publications.waset.org/pdf/16550</ee> <url>https://publications.waset.org/vol/79</url> <publisher>World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology</publisher> <abstract>Among many agro based cottage industries in India sericulture has been promoted as an agrobased, labor intensive, rural oriented cottage industry, providing gainful employment mainly to the weaker and marginalized section of the society specially tribal. Sericulture occupies the place of pride in the rural economy can be practiced even with very low land holding, low gestation, high returns make sericulture an ideal program, requiring little capital investment. In 20102011 the employment in sericulture sector was 72.5 lakh persons. The involvement of landless rural people in tasar sericulture is because they understood its potential for rural and tribal upliftment. This article demonstrates that certain developmental initiatives have been playing an important role in the socioeconomic progress of tribal masses in Raigarh district and explains the increased returns from sericulture as a result of development programs. The study concludes with some suggestions to improve the long term feasibility of sericulture. </abstract> <index>Open Science Index 79, 2013</index> </article>