Higher demand for Greek silk

The request for Greek silk from manner houses and European businesses successful wide is increasing, and the two main Greek silk factories successful the Soufli region, Evros, are investing successful boosting their production.

However, the accumulation of earthy worldly successful the region, namely the cocoons, which springiness the silk fiber, while it was already insufficient, received an further stroke pursuing the OPEKEPE scandal.

The silk farmers successful the portion are trying to articulation forces to summation their accumulation and for this crushed they established a Cooperative, with astir 15 members.

However, the OPEKEPE ungraded with the amerciable subsidies besides affected sericulture, arsenic assemblage representatives pointed retired to “N” that the accumulation of 1,200 boxes of silkworm eggs successful Crete had been falsely declared two years ago, when Soufli – the existent halfway of Greek sericulture and silk manufacturing – declared 700 boxes. The effect is that the existent sericulture farmers of Evros person mislaid astatine slightest fractional of the subsidies they were entitled to, astatine the aforesaid clip that the request from the planetary marketplace for Greek silk is expanding and the Soufli silk factories are forced to mostly procure earthy materials (cocoons and silk fiber) from abroad.

The proprietor and caput of the Mouchtaridis Silkline, Konstantinos Mouchtaridis, pointed retired to “N”: “Sericulture successful our region, the accumulation of silk cloth is going very well. The accumulation of cocoons is not going well. In my opinion, radical successful sericulture should judge developments and that we cannot beryllium portion of the planetary marketplace with the aged methods, aged mindsets and without immoderate development. We are acceptable to process the cocoons, we person proposals from each implicit Europe to springiness them silk, arsenic agelong arsenic we extract it.”

The proprietor and caput of the Tsiakiris Silk Factory, Giorgos Tsiakiris, underlined to “N” that there is accrued request from abroad, chiefly from the European marketplace and Fashion Houses for Soufli silk, while home request is besides showing an upward trend.