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  • FEATURE - Mexico City aus der Vogelschau
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    FEATURE - Mexico City aus der Vogelschau
    MANDATORY CREDIT: Johnny Miller/Millefoto/Rex Shutterstock. Only for use in this story. Editorial Use Only. No stock, books, advertising or merchandising without photographer's permission
    Mandatory Credit: Photo by Johnny Miller/Millefoto/REX/Shutterstock (7552365e)
    Another view of the highway which divides Mexico City's Santa Fe between rich and poor
    Extreme wealth inequality seen from above, Mexico City - Oct 2016
    These dramatic shots make clear the physical divides between extreme wealth inequality in Mexico City.

    Often only a wall or a highway apart, the divisions are shown from overhead by photographer Johnny Miller.
    (FOTO:DUKAS/REX)

    (c) Dukas

     

  • FEATURE - Mexico City aus der Vogelschau
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    FEATURE - Mexico City aus der Vogelschau
    MANDATORY CREDIT: Johnny Miller/Millefoto/Rex Shutterstock. Only for use in this story. Editorial Use Only. No stock, books, advertising or merchandising without photographer's permission
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    This highway clearly divides the barrio section from the mansions and estates of Santa Fe, Mexico City
    Extreme wealth inequality seen from above, Mexico City - Oct 2016
    These dramatic shots make clear the physical divides between extreme wealth inequality in Mexico City.

    Often only a wall or a highway apart, the divisions are shown from overhead by photographer Johnny Miller.
    (FOTO:DUKAS/REX)

    (c) Dukas

     

  • Silk production - from worm to catwalk, southern India - 2010
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    Silk production - from worm to catwalk, southern India - 2010
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    Silk production - from worm to catwalk, southern India - 2010
    SILK PRODUCTION - FROM WORM TO CATWALK

    For many silk - the Queen of all fabrics - spells luxury, elegance, class and comfort.

    But for hundreds of thousands of people in India it is something much more mundane but infinitely important - a vital life line.

    An estimated 700,000 people are involved in various sericulture (silk production) activities in India.

    Half of all the silk produced in India comes from the region of Karnataka where a sub-tropical climate allows for year-round production.

    In 2007-08 India exported more than GBP 400 million of raw silk, carpets and ready made garments.

    In 2007 alone it produced 18,320 metric tonnes of raw silk, making it the second a largest silk producer in the world.

    It is second only behind China, which produced 108,420 metric tonnes of raw silk in the same period.

    While the difference is vast, India's contribution is even more impressive considering that much of its production is done using outdated tools or by hand.

    Ultimately, however, poor technology and high production costs undermine the vital role played by sericulture in improving India's rural economy.

    The Worm

    The Silkworm Seed Production Centre in Mysore is run by Professor N.M. Biram Saheb.

    He explains that the Indian government pioneered the provision of disease free lays of eggs as a way of improving yields without increasing start-up costs

    The practice means that farmers are provided with a steady stream of healthy silkworm eggs.

    It is deep in the seed production centre where the 'work' of creating these eggs takes place - in darkened rooms where moths are laid out on newspaper in racks of plastic trays.

    Powerhouses of the silk industry they may be, but in reality they are pale weaklings whose only purpose is to mat...
    For more information visit http://www.rexfeatures.com/stacklink/EJXQVU

    DUKAS/REX

     

  • NEWS - Berlin: 30 Jahre Mauerfall (Archiv)
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    NEWS - Berlin: 30 Jahre Mauerfall (Archiv)
    Mandatory Credit: Photo by ALVARO RICOTTI/REX (10468099a)
    Breakdown of the Berlin Wall That Divides Berlin East From Berlin West
    30th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany - 1989

    (c) Dukas

     

  • NEWS - Berlin: 30 Jahre Mauerfall (Archiv)
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    NEWS - Berlin: 30 Jahre Mauerfall (Archiv)
    Mandatory Credit: Photo by ALVARO RICOTTI/REX (10468099b)
    Breakdown of the Berlin Wall That Divides Berlin East From Berlin West
    30th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany - 1989

    (c) Dukas