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Ritu Raj Konwar

MUGA SILK: Assamese weaver Kabita Baishya showing traditional Assamese "Muga Silk" to the Spanish Ambassador to India, Mr Rafael Conde De Saro, and his wife, Ms Maria Bassolos De Conde, during their visit to Sualkuchi silk village 40 km from Guwahati on Sunday. Sualkuchi produces over 6 million metres of white and golden Assam silk indigenously called Pat and Muga. The weavers produce the cloth using 0.5 million kg of silk thread every year and the yearly turnover is nearly Rs 1,500 crore.

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