Economic performance and factors discriminating enterpreneurship of commercial chawki rearing centres of Karnataka Kallimani Chandrashekar S1*, Basavaiah1, Divya S H2 1Department of Studies in Sericulture Science, University of Mysore, Manasagangothri, Mysuru-570 006, Karnataka 2Department of Sericulture, Yuvaraja's College, University of Mysore, Mysuru-570 005, Karnataka *Corresponding author: chandrasurya0910@gmail.com
Online published on 3 June, 2021. Abstract Chawki Rearing Centre (CRC) activity is recognized as private farmer-entrepreneurial activity in traditional sericulture districts of Karnataka. The present study analyzed the economic performance and factors discriminating entrepreneurial nature of CRCs in six traditional sericultural districts of Karnataka. Economics for one batch of rearing is presented along with b: C ratio by post categorizing CRCs based on brushing capacity. Among different categories of CRCs, the percentages of cost of mulberry leaf production varied between 16.62 and 22.74, while cost of chawki silkworm rearing varied between 77.26 and 83.38. The B: C ratios, after deducting  30, 000/month as salary paid to a supervisor/manager for every increase in 1.6 lakh dfls brushing were 1.16, 1.37, 1.51 and 1.48 in BC I, BC II, bC III and bC IV respectively. The discriminant function analysis indicated that, only the economic factors contribute more than the social characteristics to the success and failures of CRCs. Of the two economic factors studied, rearing cost will be the major and leaf cost will be next important factor. Top Keywords Benefit: Cost ratio, Chawki Rearing Centers, Entrepreneurship, Mulberry sericulture, Skilled labour. Top |