Question

Shidlagatta in Chikkaballapur district is famous for which business?
A)Dairy
B)Cotton
C)Silk
D)Wooden Toys

Answer 1

Hint: Sidlaghatta is known as the silky town of India. It is famous for the various small scale industries manufacturing raw silk or twisted silk as the final product.

Complete answer:
Known for its raw silk, Shidlagatta is a famous town in the Chikkaballapur district of Karnataka. It is claimed that it is Asia's second largest cocoon market. On an estimation, about 70 tonnes of cocoon is traded per day in the Cocoon market of the area.

The region is well known as the breeding ground of silkworms and has a large number of sericulture industries mainly consisting of reeling, twisting and weaving activities. The process from cocoon to silk threads consists of a lot of activities taken up by people and manufactured in small groups in their houses.

The final product also known as Twisted Silk which is the raw material for weaving silk clothes is also manufactured in small groups of 5-10 people in home factories and is then let off into the market for weaving clothes and sarees. The small scale industries of the region produce good quality raw silk, and it is exported throughout India like Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Telangana etc.

Hence, the correct answer is option (C)

Note: An insight into the Sidlaghatta region shows the region's specificity in the silk industry. Being the silky town of India its raw silk and Twisted silk manufactured across the various small scale industries in the region are exported throughout the country.