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Rwanda to launch silk initiative

29/04/2009

Rwanda's only textile producer, L'Usine Textile du Rwanda (Utexrwa), has announced a plan to increase the country's silk production by 75% by devoting an extra 500 hectares to mulberry trees.At the moment, the trees grow on three different sites around the capital, Kigali, on a total area of around 285 hectares. The company's managing director,...

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