Kenaf as an Economic Cash Crop?

An establishment of Kenaf industries in any country can be consider as an opportunity in boosting up the economy as Kenaf not only provides jobs in the upstream value chain but also throughout the midstream and downstream chain. The industry can be considered as a dynamic tool to create a high profit industrial based that is supported by strong cash crop agriculture.The downstreaming products that can be derived from the plant are shown as below:

• Bast  - Substitute raw material for pulp/paper industry, biocomposites that consists of kenaf bast fiber and resins (polypropylene) to form a panel which can be molded, into interior car parts.
• Core - Cloth, Oil absorbent, carpet, tar-saturated roofing.
• Fines - livestock feed or as blending component for various kinds of animal feed
  
  
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