After all, it does not purchase abaca directly from the farmers to produce the paper banknotes that are 80 percent cotton and 20 percent abaca. Instead, the locally produced abaca is sold to ...

Will the BSP reply that polymer banknotes last longer than abaca paper currency, one of their excuses? That has not been ...

Eastern Visayas recorded 2,938 metric tons (MT) of abaca fiber production in 2024, up by 24 percent from the actual yield a ...

Campbell’s paper works, made from manila envelopes and rope during a fellowship at Dieu Donné, reference the Philippine abaca industry’s colonial ties. A video installation, “Makahiya,” explores ...

THE Department of Agriculture (DA) said on Sunday that it will seek to reverse a central bank decision halting the use of abaca fiber in Philippine banknotes. “We will request that the Bangko Sentral ...

Campbell’s paper works, made from manila envelopes and rope during a fellowship at Dieu Donné, reference the Philippine abaca industry’s colonial ties. A video installation, “Makahiya,” explores ...