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Silk production in Colombia
Colombia is attempting to establish silk production to aid rural economies devastated by the coffee crisis. The silk industries of Japan and Korea are declining, and Colombia has the ideal conditions for growing silkworms.See the full content of this document
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Spinning threads of progress.
At the entrance to a long, concrete shed surrounded by high; green mulberry bushes, Kee Wook Sohn dons Chinese slippers. He skirts a narrow, wooden tub squirming with fat, white silkworms, passes a room of Colombian scientists, and glides towards a climate-controlled chamber stacked with large, glass incubators. "We've developed one hybrid of silkworm here, ideal for Colombia's tropical climate, and we'll soon have another that will produce even more silk," he says. "The proof will be in the spinning."
Sohn, a longtime Korean silk expert, is in Colombia's coffee zone, on a mission. As agricultural research director for Cokosilk, a Pereira-based silk company, he...See the full content of this document
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