Vision and Mandate 

Vision
APSSRDI is to make sericulture accepted as a sustainable economic activity contributing to overall development of the industry through innovative and creative scientific excellence.

Mandate
• To conduct research in the frontier areas of polyvoltine and bivoltine silkworm breeding

  with an aim to develop productive and qualitatively superior silkworm breeds/hybrids.
• To conduct research on disease and temperature resistant breeding to develop robust

  silkworm hybrids to cater to different regions and seasons.
• To develop silkworm disease prevention and control measures.
• To transfer silkworm breeds and the technologies developed by the institute to the users

  through Department of Sericulture.
• To train the Sericulture Department Staff and farmers in silkworm rearing and advanced

  sericulture technologies.
• To survey and collect season-wise incidence of pebrine disease in silkworm and to

  suggest control measures to Department of Sericulture.
• To conduct seminars, group discussions, demonstrations and field shows etc. for the

  effective transfer of technologies to the users.