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Question 52 – How does hemp compare to bamboo as a sustainable resource?
Question 52 – How does hemp compare to bamboo as a sustainable resource?
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Question 52 – How does hemp compare to bamboo as a sustainable resource? Next question is how does industrial hemp compare to bamboo as a sustainable resource? That’s a good question. You know bamboo is pretty cool. You can make like bamboo cotton bamboo fiber products. Stuff like that, but that’s kind of where it ends. So bamboo’s growth cycle is comparable to industrial hemp, but it’s end usage is very limited.
Very, very limited. You can’t get any food products from bamboo, really the way that you can with hemp. You can do…Â Certain parts of the, certain parts of the world will utilize a very soft, young bamboo and they’ll do a, like, dishes that are sort of similar to water, water chestnuts, and certain types of stews that are like, they’re okay or it’ll get used similar to like a lemongrass sometimes, but just different, it just throws in a different flavor.
In a really minor capacity, kind of almost like you would a bay leaf, you know, where you can only have a really small amount, but that’s sort of where it stops. And so with industrial hemp, if you’re going to be growing it as a sustainable resource, bamboo can only be used for those external properties, really external insulation, external architectural opportunities external types of like, you know, fiber weaves and stuff like that. Whereas industrial hemp can be used to grow crops that are, are viable for internal use and external use. And so you have all of the internal things that can come with a, with a hemp seed crop that’s been pollinated and generate seed.
So you know, there’s really no seed crop for bamboo, but there sure is for. Industrial hemp and that seed cropping can do anything from snacks, to oils, to lotions, to fuel alternatives, to fibers, it’s just endless. So I’d say bamboo is about 50 percent as effective as industrial hemp because bamboo has no applications for internal usage the way that industrial, industrial hemp does.