Bamboo is a versatile, income producing crop. You can harvest and sell bamboo shoots in spring and early summer. You can cut and sell poles in summer or fall. When you cut the poles you can feed the tops to livestock. They will strip the poles of leaves. You can run poultry under the bamboo [&hel…
Tripura Bamboo Mission – leading the growth of bamboo sector
Tripura is one of the major bamboo producing states in India. Bamboo grows all across the state of Tripura covering over nearly 10 to 15 different species. The state has a large skill base of people who are adept in the various aspects of bamboo. To encourage private investment in the state, the …
Building a successful Bamboo Community: Kerala State Bamboo Corporation
Kerala State Bamboo Corporation Ltd is a fully owned State Government undertaking under Industries Department -Government of Kerala that was established in the year 1971. Its mission is to support and uplift the bamboo weaving and reed cutter community and today it has over 100,000 individuals en…
Cali Bamboo partners with Habitat for Humanity, LA to give back community
Included in the Inc. 500|5000 list of fastest-growing private companies, Cali Bamboo strives to make a positive difference in the future of the planet. Adding new products like flooring, plywood, panelling and composite decking, Cali Bamboo has met the market’s growing demand for high quality gre…
Bamboo sector will grow and systematic effort can only make it grow better: By Pravin L. Agrawal
Bamboo has been part of human civilisation since ages and I am sure it will remain to do so for many more generations; whether we like or not, support it or not and promote it or not. It is purely the need of human civilisation and the business sense that Bamboo signifies; provokes me state [&hel…
What ails bamboo business development in India? By Raktim Das
From a ‘poor man’s timber’ to green gold’, bamboo is fast emerging as the super material of the 21st century. It is one of the fastest growing and highest yielding renewable natural resource making it a good substitute to wood in mitigating pressure on natural forests. Bamboo is a family of grass…
Building economic, social and cultural sustainability alongside ecological sustainability: By Rebecca Reubens
Growing global issues—including pollution, resource scarcity and climate change—have put sustainable materials in the spotlight. Bamboo is one of these materials. Bamboo has been the poster-child of sustainability initiatives the world over because it is highly renewable and a viable replacement …
Building bamboo toilets in rural areas and urban slums can be another ‘ek kadam’ towards achieving #MyCleanIndia: By Raktim Das
On the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi’s 145th birth anniversary, Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi on 2nd Oct 2014 launched the ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ (Clean India mission). The mission has already picked up huge momentum and seeks participation of all citizens from different age groups. Am…
Bamboo shoots – an under exploited health food and a potential source of income generation for the North East India: By Prof. (Dr.) C. Nirmala.
Bamboo shoots, considered as a treasure dish by the Chinese and called “King of Forest vegetables” in Japan, are a little known and neglected food commodity in India. Its consumption is confined to the North Eastern states whereas in other parts of the country, few people even know of its edibili…
FOSSILIZED® by Cali Bamboo: Quite simply the world’s hardest floors™?
Not all bamboo flooring is created equal, Cali Bamboo flooring undergoes a proprietary manufacturing process that makes Fossilized® strand woven twice the density of any other hardwood floor in the world with a score of more than 5000+ on the Janka hardness test. Preferred by contractors, builder…