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Production of Culture pearls, India Council of Agricultural Research.

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Title Production of Culture pearls, India Council of Agricultural Research.
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Creator Alagarswami.K
 
Subject Pearl Culture
Technology
Requirements
Man Power
Resource of Pearl Oyster
 
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When Kokichi Mikimoto took the small step forward
in 1893 by producing a few blister pearls in the Japanese
pearl oyster Pinctada martensii (= P. fucata) at the
coastal village of Jinmiyonmura on Ago Bay, a new
industry of pearl culture was bom. As he was building
up a small-scale industry, a few marine scientists and
technicians got themselves interested in it and, in 1907,
Tokichi Nishikawa produced the first spherical cultured
pearl in the oyster. Subsequently, the credibility of
cultured pearl as jewel was established in the 1920s
and was followed by a boom of pearl culture industry
with a master touch of Mikimoto and several other
industrialists who joined the bandwagon. After World
War 11, pearl culture industry was established in
Australia, Philippines, Burma, Thailand, Malaysia
and Indonesia, all with Japanese collaboration.
In India, since late James Homell sowed the idea of
pearl culture in 1916, there has been interest and some
experimental work done in Tamil Nadu since 1938 and
ifi Gujarat since 1958. However, success in developing
the technology was achieved only in 1973 when the
first batch of free, spherical cultured pearls was
produced at the Central Marine Fisheries Research
Institute (Alagarswami, 1974). While research on
pearl culture continued since then, it took a decade for
the establishment of an industry for the production of
cultured pearls in 1983. This paper briefly identifies
the problems of pearl culture in India and indicates
the prospects for future.
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Date 2023-07-25T08:09:47Z
2023-07-25T08:09:47Z
1991-01-01
 
Type Journal
 
Identifier Not Available
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http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/80203
 
Language English
 
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