Fadillah: Vast potential for bamboo industry to grow

Big on bamboo: Fadillah (centre) visiting the booth after launching the World Bamboo Day Malaysia 2023 at FRIM auditorium in Kepong, Kuala Lumpur. Looking on is Sng (third from left). — AZMAN GHANI/The Star

KEPONG: The bamboo industry possesses immense potential to be developed and used as an alternative timber source, says Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof.

The Deputy Prime Minister said bamboo was an important natural resource, adding that Malaysia was home to about 70 bamboo species, with 45 being local species found in Malaysian forests.