Regional Sericultural Research Station, Central Silk Board, Sahaspur, Dehradun -248197 (UK) India.

Sericulture took a rapid stride towards progress emerging as one of the most economically viable, small scale agro based industries. Earlier, the silk production was mainly based on hardy, poor yielding indigenous silkworm varieties which took more time. In spite of the many high yielding silkworm and mulberry varieties / hybrids evolved by research organizations, their dissemination at farmers’ level was low. The vigorous research is continuing to improve the productivity and accordingly technologies have also been developed by the scientists for the maximum exploitation of the evolved mulberry and silkworm varieties by the research Institutes of Centre Silk Board and other research organisations but again all the technologies do not reach the ultimate users. An effort was made by Central Silk Board through Institute Village Linked Program (IVLP) to transfer of these technologies to the end users and refine them to suit their system. This study was carried out at Jhabrera area of Haridwar, Uttarakhand and Pilibhit district of Uttar Pradesh. A total of 100 beneficiaries in each IVLP were identified for the study. Material and technological inputs were provided them through extension communication programs. Vigorous supervision studies were made to ascertain the gaps. This may lead to bridge the gap between potential and field yield.