Source: Guada Bamboo The Department of Agriculture (DA) is pushing for collaborations with infrastructure and public works agencies for a
The Department of Agriculture is pushing for collaborations with infrastructure and public works agencies for a program that uses bamboo to fight massive flooding nationwide even as climate experts have been acknowledging the plant’s climate-smart superiority.
He stresses Philippines’ thrust toward bamboo propagation is an urgent imperative with the perennial floods, as President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. himself committed to abiding by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. With some bamboo species growing by more than one meter per day, bamboo must be the fastest growing plant on earth.
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