Kenya: Growers experiment with commercial bamboo crops
But it is on the bamboo farm that the owner of Nyabera Farm, Francisca Kwasa, is stirring a revolution.
Francisca grows thousands of bamboo seedlings inside two greenhouses measuring 8 by 15 metres each.
“I have more than 60,000 bamboo seedlings of eight different varieties that include Bambusa vulgaris, Bambusa tulda and Dendrocalamus giganteus, which I grow for sale. They go for between Sh300 (2.90 USD) and Sh800 (7.70 USD),” says Francisca, adding that her prices are higher as compared to the Sh100 (0.96 USD) in the market because of the environment she raises them.
She does all the propagation process inside the greenhouse.
From one culm, which costs her Sh30 (0.29 USD), she extracts seven cuttings or buds.
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