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Silkworms offer Kashmiri farmers climate wriggle room

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - Fri, 12 Jul 2013 12:45 AM
Author: Roshan Din Shad

UPPER AMBORE, Pakistan (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – For more than half a century, raising silkworms was a way to get through the bad times in Pakistani-administered Kashmir. But in 2005 a devastating earthquake destroyed many of the region’s sericulture facilities, dealing a major blow to the cottage industry.

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