Overview

• The four-week course began on September 3 at CSRTI Mysuru and runs through September 30 under the Ministry of External Affairs’ ITEC initiative.
• Thirty participants from Cuba, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, the Philippines, Tanzania, Thailand and Uganda are enrolled.
• CSB Director (Technical) S. Manthira Moorthy inaugurated the programme, with CSRTI Director P. Deepa highlighting the institute’s sericulture R&D advances.
• Training covers hands-on mulberry silkworm rearing, exposure to CSB–CSRTI technologies, and field visits to farmers’ fields, cocoon markets, basic seed farms, chawki centres and the Central Silk Technology Research Institute in Bengaluru.
• Organisers describe this as CSRTI’s seventh international batch since 2013, noting 132 people from 22 countries previously trained and the institute’s role as a designated training hub for emerging sericulture nations.