African Bamboo General Manager Khalid Duri and USAID Assistant Administrator for Africa, Earl Gast, discuss bamboo farming and industrial uses inside the company's test facility in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The company works with smallholder farmers in Sidama zone who grow the bamboo that is used for exports of outdoor flooring for decks. Bamboo farming for commercial and industrial use is a new industry for Ethiopia.
Here Duri and Gast discuss the testing process at the glue "kitchen" where different methods of soaking the bamboo in different formulations of glue will uncover the best way to manufacture higher quality products.
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