Eri Silk to be provided to Grade IV employees in Assam
Part of: GS Prelims and GS-I – Geography & GS-III – Agriculture
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The Assam government will provide khadi shirts, eri shawl and eri stole to Grade IV employees in a phased manner, in a move to pay tributes to Mahatma Gandhi and his movement for Khadi.
Important value additions
Eri silk comes from the caterpillar of Samia ricini.
It is found in northeast India and some parts of China, Japan.
The name “eri” is derived from the Assamese word “era”, which means “castor”, as the silkworm feeds on castor plants.
Eri silk is also known as endi or errandi in India.
The woolly white silk is often referred to as the fabric of peace when it is processed without killing the silkworm.
This process results in a silk called Ahimsa silk.
Moths leave the cocoon and then the cocoons are harvested to be spun.
The eri silkworm is the only completely domesticated silkworm other than Bombyx mori.
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India has the distinction of being the only country in the world producing all Five major types of silk broadly divided into two categories:
Mulberry silk: Mainly in Karnataka
Non-mulberry Silk: Temperate tussar silk in Maharashtra,WB, Odisha, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh; Tropical tussar silk in sub –himalayan belt ( Manipur, Assam, Meghalaya,etc); Muga Silk in Assam and Eri silk in Assam, Odisha, Bihar
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