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See how tiny insects are farmed to create art and handicraft items, and fuel an entire industry! India is known as a land of agriculture and even though we now feature malls and air-conditioned office complexes aplenty, we still remain rooted to the soil. And while farmers grow crops elsewhere, in Jharkhand they grow something quite different – insects! In the Indian state of Jharkhand, cultivators rear Lac insects or Kerria lacca - the tiny beetles that produce a resin which we turn into lacquer. Research and Development on the cultivation and processing of lac is done at the Indian Lac Research Institute in Ranchi. Wildfilmsindia sent a team down to Jharkhand to understand how lacquer is still being produced in India, and the support that the industry is receiving from the central and st
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