BAGUIO CITY, Oct. 23 -- The revival of the silk industry in the Cordillera Administrative Region could provide farmers in marijuana-growing communities with a legal and potentially profitable alternative livelihood, the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) said.

DOST-Cordillera Regional Director Nancy Bantog said the government is promoting sericulture, or silk production, by presenting farmers with business models that demonstrate its potential income.

"The bottom line when we promote an industry is money, how much can be gained. We are already telling them, giving the business models so that they can be encouraged to plant," Bantog said.

She cited Kapangan, Benguet, where local officials introduced sericulture and anthurium p...