Lacquer Industry in India

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.


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