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Uzbekistan begins exhausting harvest for silkworm Cocoon

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Uzbekistan that holds third place in global silkworm cocoon production, behind China and India and perhaps most famous export has begun its harvest for silkworm cocoons in earnest and with the usual concern for rights violations that the ancient industry brings with it. According to official figures, in 2015 silkworm breeders gather vast amounts of cocoons every year — as much 26,000 tons.

Switzerland makes efforts to produces its own silk

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The textile industry plays an instrumental role in the history of the canton of Zurich. Of particular importance is the Zurich silk industry. The silk trade was the leading manufacturing industry in the canton of Zurich from 1840 to 1900. There are records of silk being made in Zurich as far back as the Middle Ages, and a number of workshops sprang up all around the country, but in 1914 the last silk factory was closed in Ticino.

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