• Dr. Vidy K
• Dr. Ravindranath N. Kadam
• Mrs. Savitri K

Centuries have passed but agriculture retained its place at top. The modern life style changed the system of living and the modernization brought changes in civilization. In the modern days the everything is seen with different angle and linked with fashion. The agriculture the main supplier of food and clothing to living beings has been pressurized to produce according to new demands. In the modern and stylish era man consumes his food with forks and spoons but he consumes the same thing what was consumed centuries ago. Agriculture is a only sector which is affected more of frequent price fluctuations which in turn leads to uncertainty in farmers income. Sericulture is one of the important agriculture based allied activity which can be practiced for increasing income of the agriculturists. On an average 13 persons can be provided with employment for a period of one year in one hectare of mulberry saplings. Rising of Mulberry Saplings and rearing of silk worms are the two different activities are involved in Sericulture. In Shivamogga district about 459 sericulturists grow Mulberry 227.80 hectares in 186 villages. The trend of Mulberry cultivation in Shivamogga taluk is fluctuating. The paper aimed at hilighting the issues related to serculture in Shivamogga taluk in Karnataka.

Consumption, fluctuations, mulberry modernization, Sericulture,

"SERICULTURE IN SHIVAMOGGA TALUK OF KARNATAKA: AN OVER VIEW", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no.255-258, July-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRA006044.pdf

"SERICULTURE IN SHIVAMOGGA TALUK OF KARNATAKA: AN OVER VIEW", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no. pp255-258, July-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRA006044.pdf