| Instead, traditional exports such as coconut, abaca and sugar have lost markets. |
| Abaca is not a hemp but since hemp was the main source of fibres for centuries, the abaca fibre was named Manila hemp. |
| The principal cash crops are coconuts, bananas, pineapples, sugar, tobacco, and abaca. |
| It's one of the benefits of using the abaca rather than the more-conventional glass fibers. |
| Keith, whose six-year-old daughter Mia has the condition, launched his Masquerade Ball at the Abacas School in Killbarrick, Dublin, yesterday. |
| International Business Machines ibm, for instance, created the world's smallest abacas using molecules with a diameter of less than one nanometer one-billionth of a meter–as beads. |
