In its bid to develop the local silk industry, the FIDA implemented two important projects, namely:

• "Development of Sericulture as a Rural Agro-Based Industry in the Philippines" funded by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) with Phase II being funded by the Korean International Development Program (KOIKA); and,
• "National Integrated Sericulture Development Program" (NISDP) funded under the RP-Japan Increased Food Production Program.
  Under these two projects, infrastructure support facilities for cocoons and raw silk production have been established.

Rearing houses for the commercial silkworm rearing in Benguet and La Union as well as in Southern and Western Mindanao, Western Visayas and Central Luzon are now operational. The breeding cum multiplication center at the UPLB, which is being managed and operated by experts from the university in collaboration with FIDA, provides the silkworm egg requirements of Luzon farmers. Likewise, two silkworm egg multiplication centers, one each in Davao and Iloilo, were established to cater silkworm egg requirements of farmers in the Visayas and Mindanao.The construction of MSCs in Region I and CAR which include a rearing house, a processing building and a broiler house has been completed. The centers are equipped with modern facilities from Korea. This will be operated by farmers' cooperatives under the close supervision of FIDA's technical staff.