Bamboo emerges as possible Lankan economic lifeline
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A young girl from Bandarawela helps her mother in the weaving of bamboo baskets which are used to transport up-country flowers by train to the capital. Sri Lanka this week launched a major donor-funded bamboo growing project. See related story.
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