Boosting of local yarn production can help revitalizing the silk sector to regain its lost legacy alongside meeting up the existing local demands, sericulture and silk related experts and professional said.They viewed that the local consumption could be met up through domestic outputs after the best uses of the existing natural resources and there is no doubt in this regard.Talking to this news agency here Alhaz Sadar Ali, pioneer silk industry owner in Rajshahi, stated that the glorious sector has been facing an embarrassing position at present due to abnormal price hike of imported China silk yarn and abnormal declining of its local production.He highlighted various aspects of the silk sector and its contribution to the national and local economy.Importance should be given on how to boost up the grassroots yarn production through proper utilizing the existing natural and other infrastructural resources side by side with minimizing the existing obstacles.Silk industrialist Liakat Ali said the price of China silk was Taka 2,250 per kg couple of years ago but the current price has gone up at least three to four times more at present and that is beyond capacity of many of the silk manufacturers.Not only that, he apprehended that the price will go up further. By itself, China is manufacturing cloth through stopping silk yarn export, he added.In this adverse situation, Liakat Ali revealed that there is no alternative to enhance local production to protect the dignified sector from degradation.He opined that the sector needs an urgent initiative to retain the skilled labourers especially the realers, weavers and printers in the profession to protect the sector as a whole.Meanwhile, Golam Mourtoza, Chief Marketing Officer of Bangladesh Sericulture Development Board, said the country produces around 35-40 metric tons of yarns against the annual demand of around 300 tonnes at present.
