Ancient Sericulture Cottage Industry opens new vistas of economic progress and prosperity in AJK:.

MIRPUR [AJK] -- The day-long division-level capacity building workshop of both genders of the farmers of centuries-old Kashmir based cottage industry of Sericulture concluded on Tuesday with special emphasis by the Sericulture experts and related educationists to collectively work for the promotion of ancient Sericulture industry in Azad Jammu Kashmir through maximum involvement of the private-sector farmers to make them self-supported economically under the spirit of the already-launched poverty alleviation program in the State.

The one-day grand division-level workshop on Sericulture industry was hosted at the State-run University of Kotli jointly by the State Sericulture Department with the coordination of the Kotli varsity management.

The awareness program on Sericulture was largely attended by seasoned academicians, univarsity students besides men and women sericulture farmers - especially by the Acting Vice Chancellor of the Kotli University Dr Mushtaq A Sajjid, Director AJK Sericulture Department Syed Ali Asghar Shah, Dr M Irshad Dean Faculty of Basic and Applied Sciences, Dr Faraz Akrim, Chairman department of zoology, Dr Amjad Hussaain Assistent Professor Zoology, Dr Sajida Rasheed Assistent Professor Biotechnology, M Mansoor, Ms Zahreen Rukhsar and Ms Fouzia Saeed, lecturers Zoology.

Sericulture industry experts including Rizwan Ullah Khan Entomologist, Fahad Kayani Assistant Director, Ahsan Manzoor Sericulture Development Officer and Salaar Mehmood...