The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.
Diogenes
According to the FAO: The art of silk production is called sericulture that comprises cultivation of mulberry, silkworm rearing and post cocoon activities leading to production of silk yarn. Sericulture provides gainful employment, economic development and improvement in the quality of life to the people in rural area and therefore it plays an important role in anti poverty programme and prevents migration of rural people to urban area in search of employment.
Silk is only produced in around 25 countries. The main producer of silk is Viet Nam (just above 126 thousand tons in 2017), closely followed by China (126 thousand tons), India (>23 thousand tons), Uzbekistan (just above 6.7 thousand tons) and Turkey (4.5 thousand tons).
