In India, sericulture is a thriving culture as well as a custom. This labour-intensive, farm-based enterprise is economically attractive and falls into the cottage and small-scale sectors. It is especially advantageous for rural farmers, artists, and business people because it requires less initial investment but has the potential to yield bigger returns in the future. When compared to all other vocations, sericulture has the greatest labour force participation rate in the country, indicating that it is an industry with employment potential. It provides a source of income and employment for people living in rural areas, especially small-scale farmers and the less fortunate and marginalized groups in society. Because of its tropical environment, India has the unique advantage of being able to practice sericulture all year round, producing a steady stream of roughly 10–12 crops. The multidisciplinary field of sericulture employs diverse groups of individuals to perform a range of tasks both on and off the farm, including managing mulberry nurseries, producing silkworm seeds, rearing chawki worms, rearing late-age silkworms, reeling silk, twisting, warp and weft creation, dying, printing, zari-making, weaving, and other related tasks. Obviously, sericulture helps people in rural regions by creating gainful employment, fostering economic growth, and improving their quality of life. As a result, it is crucial to the anti-poverty programme and keeps people from moving from rural to urban areas in search of livelihood. In view of its entrepreneurial opportunities in each and every sector of sericulture for heterogeneous groups of people, the authors would like to highlight various entrepreneurial opportunities in the industry

Entrepreneurial Opportunities, Sericulture, Silk, Vanya Sericulture

Sericulture is a viable career option for educated young people in semi-urban and metropolitan areas, as well as the majority of rural residents. Growth in sericulture will undoubtedly contribute to thriving rural development by enabling poverty reduction, producing income-generating business opportunities, and preventing the migration of rural poor from rural to urban areas. The sericulture sector appears to be a great place to work and offers a wide range of business options. An important factor in fostering a nation's economic prosperity is entrepreneurship. In any industry, the rise of entrepreneurship increases the fundamental basis of the sector by creating jobs and opportunities

G. Savithri, P. Sujathamma, A. Shobha Rani, K.S. Shanthi Sree and M. Swetha Priya (2024). Sericulture – An Entrepreneurial Spark. Biological Forum – An International Journal, 16(6): 164-168.