Passage: Wheat, fruit, vegetables, maize, nuts, tobacco, and silk-worm cocoons are grown in the region.  The region also has a few textile plants and hydroelectric stations.  Minerals, natural gas, coal, metals, and oil can be found here, notably around the town of Kochkor-Ata, which is home to small scale oil industry.  Most of the extraction of minerals, natural gas, coal, metals, and oil of the Soviet era has ceased.

Question: What type of worms are grown and harvested there?
silk-worm