In Simbalan, Buenavista, Agusan del Norte, over 100 farmers—62 of whom are women, mostly mothers—are excited about the income opportunities offered by the Bamboo Textile Fiber Innovation Hub (BTFIH).

Mittal says the second important technology that has been developed is of mechanically extracting bamboo fibre ... any water while extraction. It is purely a mechanical process, and is achieved ...

Located in Sitio Cabayugan, Barangay Simbalan, the new hub is equipped to process up to 40 kilograms of raw bamboo fiber per day, providing farmers access to advanced processing technologies and ...

and fibre extraction. The company's president Yang Chaolin told the newspaper that in the process of digesting the bamboo, the pandas would have stripped out the fructose and extracted the fibres ...