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The prospect of creating a sericulture park in northern Evia, an ambitious project of national and local importance with multiple benefits, but also the simultaneous recovery of Greek sericulture and silk industry, was expounded upon by the Deputy Minister of Agricultural Development and Food, Mr. Simos Kedikoglou, in a meeting with relevant agencies.

Hundreds of mulberry trees in Athens have been decimated by the wood borer insect Xylotrechus chinensis and many more have been infected, municipal plant specialists said on Tuesday.

The production of highly nutritious mulberry molasses has begun for the villagers of Aktoprak who wake up early each morning in Turkey's eastern province of Bingöl to gather mulberries.

A mulberry tree has grown a seven-meter root inside a drinking water pipe in the southeastern Turkish province of Mardin. 

A man living in the Niksar district of the Black Sea province of Tokat has not had the heart to cut down a tree which has been growing inside his house for decades, astonishing passersby who notice its trunk sticking unnaturally out of his house.