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The 26th International Congress of ISC, during 7 to 11 September, 2022 at Cluj Napoca, Romania

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26th ISC Conference

The Conference is the chief governing council of the ISC held once in three years wherein important and critical issues concerning the organization and the silk industry are reviewed and appropriate actions are initiated. Accordingly, the 26th Conference of ISC was held on 14 December 2021 on a virtual mode. The Conference witnessed the participation of delegates from ten member countries.

Meeting with VIETSERI

ISC facilitated an online meeting between Vietnam Sericulture Research Centre (VIETSERI) and Central Silk Board on 29 December 2021 to discuss about the prospects of collaboration for the development of sericulture and silk industry. As part of the meeting, both sides have presented the status of sericulture and silk industry in their respective countries.

Working Group Meeting on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) study on Silk

ISC and International Silk Union, China have constituted a Working Group for developing global sustainability standards for silk. As part of this, the LCA study on silk would be undertaken in the important silk producing and consuming countries which would be later aggregated appropriately to derive the global silk standard.

Training on Sericulture and Silk Industry

A four weeks training on “Sericulture and Silk Industry” was held at Central Sericultural Research and Training Institute, Mysore during 2-29 September, 2019. The training was fully sponsored under the Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) programme of Ministry of External Affairs, Govt. of India. 19 officials from 9 countries participated in the training.

Visit of Bangladesh Delegation

ISC facilitated the visit of a nine member delegation from Bangladesh led by Mr. Abdul Hakim, Director General, Bangladesh Sericulture Development Board visited the sericulture areas and facilities during 2nd to 12th September, 2019.As part of this visit, the delegation visited the Office of the ISC on 10th September, 2019 and discussed about taking up a mega sericulture project in Bangladesh.

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