Handloom Fabric Makers of Nepal is organizing a National Silk Conference in collaboration with the Silk Development Center.
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Handloom Fabrics Makers of Nepal is organizing a National Silk Conference in collaboration with Silk Development Center, Khopasi (Kavrepalanchok). The conference will be held in Kathmandu on Saturday, December 26, the organizers have said.
The organizer has stated that the conference is being organized to re-establish Nepal's silk industry as a strategic, high value-added and sustainable national industry. The conference will bring together the government, private sector, banks and financial institutions, investors, non-resident Nepalis, development partners, farmers, cooperatives, entrepreneurs and exporters on a single national platform. Roshan Kumar Pokharel, Chairman of
Handloom, said that the silk industry is not operational in Nepal today. 'It is not because there is no potential that the industry does not exist, but because of long-term neglect, fragmentation and lack of investment,' he said, 'When the demand for sustainable and natural textiles is increasing in the global market, silk cannot be ignored anymore.'
stated that silk is one of the world's highest-value agro-industrial products. Silk production has high income per hectare, low carbon emissions, women-oriented and rural employment, and can be exported because it has value added over raw materials.
According to a realistic production and value addition model, it is stated that if mulberry cultivation, silkworm rearing, yarn production, weaving, and garment manufacturing are integrated in an area of 22,000 hectares, there is a possibility of creating an economic value equivalent to five trillion rupees annually.
