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A Silk Market in Karnataka

S R Charsley The Karnataka Silkworm, Seed, Cocoon (Supply, Distribution and Control) Distribution and Control Amendment Act, passed in September 1979, requires producers of raw silk to sell only through an official silk exchange established in Bangalore.

Finance and Raw Silk Industry

S R Charsley This paper gives an account of the participants in the raw silk industry, both 'toilers' and 'intermediaries', and of the ways in which sericultural operations are partially financed through the relationships between them. On this basis the author attempts to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the present situation in the raw silk industry and of actual and possible alternative arrangements.

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