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<br /> .~f' <br /> - " <br /> , <br /> ~ <br /> 4 <br /> f <br /> •f4~ <br /> ~S' <br /> .i S,: <br /> . J• <br /> ~ ~ :'.Y <br /> .Y <br /> ~~-,L`. <br /> 1 <br /> ~ 1r, <br /> i' _ <br /> ECO-S~r1S1~IC <br /> Eco-nomics <br /> Why bamboo is good business <br /> By Christine ]nterlante <br /> amboo, one of the fastest-grow- last beginning to recu~nise the good <br /> ink bcilding materials and ot- sense in harvesting raw materials Frith <br /> ten referred to in Asia as "poor greater care rather than deortehing <br /> man's timber", could soon be tagged and moving on to the nest forest.l~'ith <br /> rw• the "rich mar's resource'. Witheareful pressures growing to end the de- <br /> management, bamboo has the poten- strudion of the rain forests, and for <br /> tialtoreplacewoodinthemanufacture conservation of finite resources, not <br /> ~I <br /> ofmam~products.Comparisonofthe onlvdoessud~anapproachmakegood <br /> yields of ba-nboo and, for example, business sense; it makes for a g,~od <br /> a,','„, pine, is resealing: while pine requires public image. <br /> ^ 10-20 years to mature and replanting Estimates of resenue generated <br /> ~ ' isnecessarvaftereachharvest,during wurld~ride from bamboo and its bs- <br /> one c de of a me harvest a bamboo mductssarv~ridch~.bet~ceen7L`;dS <br /> t„„ p F <br /> gnn'e can be han°ested between 10 billion and `}7 billion. Nn figures are <br /> and 20 times-and at no time does it set aaailable on resenue ~encratcd i? <br /> have to be replanted. Indonesia alone. <br /> Companies Frith foresight are at Linda Garland, an cm~imnmcr.L~l- <br /> <br />