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Kapangan situated on the northern part of Benguet province in the Cordillera Administrative Region of the Philippines. The town started engaging in silk in the 1970s, rekindled in 2005 which eventually became the town’s one town, one product and has the widest mulberry production area of 15.75 hectares is hoping to revive the silk industry in the municipality.
As the industry slowly dwindled because of the lack of raw silk which also slowed down the production of silk products despite the aim to be known as the silk capital of the country in 2007.
