Cocoon Market Ramanagara -ರೇಷ್ಮೇ ನಾಡು

Cocoon Market, Ramanagaram, Karnataka (India) is one of the largest cocoon markets in Asia as well as in the world. It is also called as Cosmopolitan Cocoon Market because of the people from different states bring their cocoons to this market. On an average 40 Metric tones of cocoons are being transacted daily in this cocoon market. In Ramanagaram town alone 1000 families are having reeling units and there are 893 Charkas, 3140 cottage basins (improved), 78 multi-end reeling units and 01 Automatic Reeling Unit of 400 Ends capacity. There are also about 90 Twisting units functioning at this place.
To create quality awareness amongst the farmers, a Cocoon Testing Center was established by Central Silk Technological Research Institute, Central Silk Board in the year 2002. This center is headed by a Scientist-C and supported by three Technical Assistants. The major mandate of this center is testing and grading of bi-voltine cocoons. About 40-45 cocoon lots are being tested by this center on daily basis. Based on the test results, this office gives technical guidance to the farmers for producing good quality cocoons. Besides guiding the farmers, technical guidance is also extended t o the Multi-end reelers to produce gradable raw silk yarn.