Srinagar: The Director Handicrafts and Handloom Kashmir, Mahmood Ahmad Shah, today chaired a webinar discussing issues with the stakeholders related to pashmina and its future prospectus.
The webinar was held in collaboration with the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) Jammu and Kashmir chapter.
In his opening remarks, the Director informed that the webinar has been organized with a view to deliberate on the challenges faced in the Pashmia sector that is serving a very large sector of artisans, craft persons, Handicraft exporters and women artisans.
Issues and concerns from experts and stakeholders in the pashmina industry were flagged during the webinar. The participants made suggestions on the long term and short term measures that the industry and the Governmental agencies need to take to promote handspun and handmade pashmina products and to meet the challenge of machine made products that are encroaching on the livelihoods of the genuine artisans