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DOST HELPS PRODUCE BAMBOO-FRAMED FACE SHIELDS

As the number of COVID-19 cases continue to spike in the province of Camarines Sur, the Bula Masarig Engineered Bamboo, one of the top manufacturers of bamboo-made products in the province, made an initiative to produce face shields with frames made from kauayan-tinik. The kauayan-tinik is a perennial, woody-stemmed grass known for its versatile uses. […]

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USE BAMBOO AS WOOD ALTERNATIVE – CIMATU

Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu has made a fresh pitch for Filipinos to consider planting and using bamboo as alternative to wood in order to help increase the country’s forest cover. Cimatu said that even the government is now shifting to planting bamboo under its flagship reforestation initiative – the Expanded National Greening Program (ENGP). “Our […]

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DENR TO INCREASE BAMBOO SEEDLING PLANTING TO 45% – CIMATU

Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Roy Cimatu has vowed to increase bamboo seedling planting under the National Greening Program (NGP) from 20 percent to 40 to 45 percent due to its high survival rate and usability as compared to other tree or plant seedlings. In an interview during his visit at CS […]