The Japanese Fund for Reducing Poverty (JFRP) is carrying out a project for poor silk producers in the Central Highlands provinces of Kon Tum, Gia Lai and Dak Lak.
The project will help the silk producers in rearing silkworms on cassava leaves.
The total project cost is US $600,000 and Asian Development Bank will sponsor the project. A team of Japanese experts will visit Vietnam to impart training courses for local silk growers and transfer technology for rearing silkworms on cassava leaves.
Silkworm-breeding farms have been raised to provide silkworms and equipments at no cost for poor farmers.
Under the project, 27 farmer families in Dak To district were helped in raising silkworms on an experimental basis and succeeded in achieving positive results.
