Speaking during the “KAWAYARN: A Bamboo Textile PH Launch,” Villar urged the DOST- Philippine Textile Research Institute to be at the forefront of propagating bamboo given its significant role in the textile industry.
The chairperson of the Senate committee on agriculture added that bamboo is abundant and robust across the country. “The DOST-PTRI Bamboo fiber extraction technology was developed in 2015. It has moved sustainable and improved fiber extraction techniques for the bamboo species in a bid to promote the increased utilization of natural textile fiber processing from bamboo. The facility will extract bamboo fiber to be used for yarn, which will then be woven into textiles,” she added.
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