David Stedeford, Chief Executive Officer and founder of Bamboo Bioproducts, says Hurricane Melissa has highlighted the resilience of Jamaica's emerging bamboo industry.
Bamboo Bioproducts is developing the country's first large-scale bamboo pulp mill and is currently cultivating 25,000 acres of farmland islandwide as part of a 500 million dollar investment.
Stedeford says, although construction of the mill has not yet begun, the passage of Hurricane Melissa provided what he described as a real-world stress test for the project's agricultural and industrial designs.
He says the storm has strengthened his confidence in bamboo as a resilient crop, noting that the company's fields were exposed to extreme conditions similar to a Category Five hurricane, yet the bamboo clumps remained intact and recovered quickly.
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