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Afghan farmers not long ago collected the thick winter undercoat their goats shed every spring and threw it on the fire to heat their homes and cook their food have learned that the super-soft fluff that comes off in clumps as the weather warms up, once cleaned, refined and spun into yarn is cashmere — a luxury product that finds customers as far away as the United States, Britain and Europe.
