To elevate with stimulating growth in regard to the production of quality and productivity of raw silk and to promote India in to International market the Cluster Promotion Programme (CPP) was implemented in a historically important Madakasira mandal, Ananthapur District, Andhra Pradesh. Out of the 17 clusters considered to organise CPP in Andhra Pradesh for the development of Bivoltine sericulture under South nodal office of Regional Sericultural Research Station, Central Silk Board, Ananthapur, Andhra Pradesh, Madakasira has been recognised as one of the potential clusters. Eleven years efforts of CPP implementation at Madakasira cluster has yielded significantly marked improvement. It was recorded that the DFLs distribution was raised with a steps forward ranging from 0.58 lakh as against 0.50 target (2008-09), 1.40 against 1.00 lakh (2009-10), 1.43 against 1.25 (2010-11), 1.82 against 1.50 (2011-12), 2.25 against 2.00 (2012-13), 3.55 against 3.50 (2013-14) 4.83 against 4.00 (2014-15), 6.92 against 5.20 (2015-16), 10.06 against 7.25 (2016-17), 15.82 against 12.00 (2017-18) and 16.02 lakh as against 16.90 (2018-19), respectively with a pounding increase of DFLs distribution as against the bench mark level of 0.42 lakh before 2008. Growth rate of DFLs distribution was ranged from 94.79% to 138.7% in case of target and 38.1% to 3714.3 % over bench mark.
Similar trend was noticed in regard to no. of farmers brushed and DFLs harvested among the farmers. CPP implementation under the cluster also prejudiced the yield of cocoon per 100 DFLs ranging from 61.67 kg/100 dfls in 2008-09, 63.56 kg in 2009-10, 63.60 kg in 2010-11, 64.70 kg in 2011-12, 65.30kg in 2012-13, 65.79 kg in 2013-14, 66.10 kg in 2014-15, 71.37 kg in 2015-16, 72.54 kg in 2016-17, 73.20 kg in 2017-18 and 73.55 kg/100 dfls during 2018-19, respectively. Yield of cocoon was noticed from 40.16% to 67.16% increase over bench mark yield (44.0%). Due to CPP implementation under Madakasira during the period of 2008 to 2019 a total of 64.26 lakh DFLs were distributed as against 55.10 lakh generating 618.73MT raw silk among 24,000 sericulturists. The average market rate too increased significantly ranging from Rs. 279.0 to Rs. 506.0 with a marked increase ranging from 24.0% to 124.9%. The long term (2008-2019) impact of CPP implementation under Madakasira has resulted in 64.26 lakh DFLs distribution among 24,000 sericulturists inspiring to generate 618.73MT raw silk was the end result of the efforts put by the state and central technical and field functionaries efforts throughout the implementation period of CPP.