The theme of this Summit was to promote agricultural activities and attract investment in agriculture and allied sectors like Animal Husbandry, Apiculture, Dairy, Sericulture, Fisheries, Floriculture, Horticulture and Food Processing in the state of Karnataka.
Sericulture had turned lands traditionally reserved for rice crops into silk farms, and flour products like hōtō were invented as a means to counter food shortages which arose from this change in agriculture.
During the reign of Emperor Nintoku (313-399), the members of the clan were sent to diverse parts of the country to spread the knowledge and practice of sericulture.
Several mills whose buildings still bear witness to the sericulture past activity (silkworm farming).
It has one Sub-station at block Manikchak in Maldah district with 50 acres of land (25 acres at Mathurapur + 25 acres at Ratua) which is famous for its mango plantation and sericulture.
At the same time, the discovery of a method to fight against the diseases of cocoons by Louis Pasteur contributed to the fast development of sericulture.
The Uzi fly (Exorista sorbillans) is a species of bristly fly in the family Tachinidae that is a parasitoid of caterpillars and is a problem for silkworm rearing in the tropical regions of South and Southeast Asia.