Bamboo rafts, mangroves eyed as disaster implements

SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union: Environmental cooperative Green Creek and the Environment and Natural Resources Office here will use bamboo rafts , locally called here as raket as rescue implement in floods and plant mangroves on the mouth of an important water course here to solve sand erosion.

Environment and Natural Resources chief Valmar Valdez said the use of bamboo raft would be environment-friendly, practical, thrifty and flexible in terms of mobility, with bamboo being the city’s One Town, One Product.