Suguna group to foray into sericulture.

(From Business Line)

COIMBATORE, March 12. THE Rs 400-crore poultry major, Suguna group of Udumalpet is expanding its activities to sericulture. The group has planned to promote mulberry-cocoon integrated farming in about 10 zones, which may, at a later stage, be extended to silk reeling/fabrication as well.

The group has floated a new outfit - Suguna Agro Products Pvt Ltd - to handle its sericulture operations that will be known as the silk division. The sericulture activity will take a leaf out of Suguna's successfully running integrated contract poultry farming. It would contract farmers rearing silk worms and mulberry in identified mulberry zones to …