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Bamboo green gold

Bamboo is one of the most diverse groups of plants in the grass family. A woody culm, complex

branching, a generally robust rhizome system and infrequent flowering distinguish it.

Bamboo is an extraordinary and unique plant, growing throughout the world. In the recent years,

there has been a growing awareness in recent years about the importance of bamboo cultivation

as a means of economic growth. Bamboo as an industrial material can substitute wood and that

too at low cost. Raw material for furniture, panel boards substituting wood, agriculturalimplements, house and construction related uses and even as a vegetable

A strong, highly renewable and environment-friendly resource, bamboo. There are about 2000-

recorded uses and nearly 4000 commercial products made out of it. Based on its diversified uses

and its potential to give livelihood security to millions of people, bamboo has earned the

sobriquet, "Green Gold."

It is widely used as building material, paper and pulp resources, scaffolding, food and

agricultural implements, weaving materials, in plywood manufacture, and the like. Its recordeduses cover a long list fuel, food and shelter, and as raw material for furniture, mats,

construction material, chopsticks, toothpicks, musical instruments of various types, vinegar, beer

and activated carbon. The widely used bamboo baskets are effective packaging material.

Bamboo could be a replacement for plastics and other environmentally hazardous materials.

Figures shows, over 600 million people, mainly in the developing world, generate income from

bamboo; over a billion people live in bamboo houses. The depletion in the forest resources has

already caused vast damage to our environment, ecology, and habitat and to the livelihood ofmillions of our countrymen. Bamboo is a self-generating natural resource, which has hugepotential for addressing these concerns. Bamboo has a vast potential but there is a lack of

technology and awareness.

Market

The global market for bamboo is valued at 10 billion dollars and it is expected to increase to 20billion dollars by 2015. The annual world trade is bamboo, and its 'cousin' rattan, is currently

estimated at 14 million dollars.

Young shoots of bamboo have been held in high esteem as an edible delicacy. China and Taiwanexport bamboo shoots to Japan , USA , Germany , Saudi Arabia and Denmark .

To tap the vast economic potential of bamboo and promote its overall development in a

sustainable manner, the Government of India has launched, under the Agriculture Ministry, a

National Bamboo Mission, which is home to 130 species of bamboo, archaic legislation and lack

of awareness have inhibited the bamboo-based industrialization process. The biggest impediment

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to the development of bamboo-based sector is irregular and scant supply of bamboo for

entrepreneurial use.

Equally important is the enormous ecological benefits that bamboo plantations can give. It wouldhelp in the efforts to fight global warming.

Dendrocalamus asper

Distribution:

A new introduction to India from Thailand in early 1990s. Has been introduced in several

locations in India on trial and as commercial plantation.

AltitudeUpto 1200m

Flowering

Reported flowering cycle of more than 100 years.

Characteristic features

1. HEIGHT - 25-30 m tall,

2. DIAMETER- 12-18 cm

3. COLOUR - Green

Uses

1. Excellent edible Shoots

2. For Making Musical instruments.

3. Raw material for pulp and paper Industries.

4. Construction purpose, crafts as well as outriggers on fishing boats.

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Dendrocalamus hamilitoni

Distribution:

Nort and North East India including Bengal. Grown in Bihar, Orissa, Jharkhand and Uttrakhand.

Altitudeupto 1600 m.

Flowering

Flowering cycle of 35-40 years.

Characteristic features

1. HEIGHT - Up to 30 m tall.

2. DIAMETER 10 -20 cm with long internodes

3. COLOR - Dull green.

Uses1. Excelent Edible shoots

2. Raw material for pulp and paper Industries.

3. Making rafts and handicrafts.4. Scaffolding and Ladders, basket, mats.

5. Construction purposes, roofing Huts, Houses.

6. Excellent species for watershed management and soil conservation.

7. Leaves are important source of fodder in hilly Himalayan regions, especially in winter.

Bambusa balcoa

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Distribution:

North East India including West Bengal. Also cultivated in Bihar, Orissa, Jharkhand and

Uttrakhand.

Altitude

Upto 600 m.

Flowering

35-45 years

Characteristic features

1. Height - Upto 25m tall.

2. Diameter - 12-18 cms.

3. Colour - Dark Bottle Green.

Uses

1. Edible shoots.2. Good for making small bridges, houses, furniture etc.

3. Construction, scaffolding, ladders.4. For making stick (agarbatti sticks).

5. Rawmaterial for pulp and pare industries.

6. Excellent for Handicrafts.

Bambusa bambos

Distribution:

Throughout India, more common in central and south India.

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Altitude

Upto 1000 m

Flowering

20 -25 years.

Characteristic features

1. HEIGHT - Culms Up to 25 m tall.

2. DIAMETER- 10-15 cm.3. COLOUR - Dark green.

Uses

1. Thatching and roofing

2. Leaves are used as fodder and medicine.3. Raw material for pulp and paper Industries.

4. River bank stabilization, soil and water conservation.

5. Good species for boundary fencing.

Tissue Culture Bamboo Advantages:

Large number of plants can be produced within a short period of time.

Plants can be produced round the year with out seasonal constraints.

Requires less space and time for production

Plants produced are genetically uniform.

Plants are disease free as the production process is under sterile conditions.

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Plants are high yielding compared to vegetative and seed propagated plants.

Early yielding compared to vegetative and seed propagated plants.

They are light, small and compact

Easily transportable

High survival rates in the field

High productivity

Sheel biotech

TISSUE CULTURE BAMBOO

Bamboos are giant, woody grasses which produces long, naturally pre-finished

Culms ("stems"). Because of its diverse application and socioeconomicimportance, the Bamboos are also called" Green Gold".

Bamboo is the most diverse group of plants in the grass family and is

distinguished by a woody culm. It has a tropical and subtropical (cosmopolitan)distribution, ranging from 46 N to 47 S latitude, reaching elevations as high as

4,000M in the Himalayas and parts of China. Bamboo is very adaptable, with

some species being deciduous and others evergreen

Propagation

Bamboos are conventionally propagated through seedlings and rooted cuttings.Commercial varieties of bamboos take 12 to 150 years for flowering. In most of

the economically important species, there is an acute shortage of material. Seeds

are difficult to store and loose its viability fast. Cuttings are too bulky fortransportation and cannot be produced in large numbers.

Considering the importance of producing and making available large number of planting

materials, the only alternative is in vitro micropropagation.

The advantages of Micropropagation are:

Elite clones can be identified and propagated. Production of plantlets throughout the year

Planting materials can be produced in large numbers with less space.

In vitro produced plants establish and grow fast

Biomass production is much higher compared to seedling progenies.

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Easy to transport over long distances.

Sheel Bio-Tech producing Bamboos in vitro techniques house technology as collaboration with

institutions in India and Abroad

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BAMBOO

Bamboo is a Symbol of centuries old

civilization of mankind being a part of daily lifestyle in almost all occasion. India is number one

country in world with largest Bamboo forests(8.98 million ha.). It is used in several industries

like paper, housing, cottage, handicrafts and inmodern time as wood substitutes for practical

board, furniture & recently as floor tiles, matsetc.

Tissue culture is a technique to produce large quantities of plants in very short time.Plants from tissues are grown under controlled environment conditions.

Starting from only a few nodal pieces, within a period of 4-8months thousands of new plants can be produced. These

plants are multiplied every 3-5 weeks. This is an excellent

method of propagate new introductions or new selectionsvery rapidly. The following species are being produced at our

lab. a. Bambusa balcooa b. Bambusa nutans c. Bambusatulda d. Dendrocalamus strictus e. Bambusa bamboos f.

D.giganteus g. B.vulgaris.

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Tripura achieves breakthrough in

bamboo tissue cultureBy ANI | ANI Wed, Sep 28, 2011

http://in.news.yahoo.com/tripura-achieves-breakthrough-bamboo-tissue-culture-120621615.html

Agartala, Sep 28 (ANI): The forest research and development

department of Tripura has come up with micro propagationtechnique that facilitates the supply of a large number of bamboo

saplings in a short time.

Scientists of Van Gaveshana Sadan located at Gandhigram nearAgartala, in collaboration with The Energy and Resource Instituteof New Delhi, have achieved a significant breakthrough in bamboo

tissue culture process.

Their latest 'Micro Propagation' technique of using emerging

branchlets from mature culms is one of the most successful andcheapest methods to establish a bamboo plantation.

This new technique facilitates the supply of large quantities of

good quality bamboo saplings to growers at reasonable prices.

The process will also be helpful in increasing the production ofbamboo where its seeds are not available.

Bamboo is grown in chambers under controlled environmental

conditions from where it is cloned and then sent for hardening.

These plants are healthy, disease free and have a longer life.

"We have achieved a major success. Right now, we are basicallydoing micro propagation of bamboo, which is commonly known as

Mal/Makhla bamboo up to this we got 90 percent success. Now,

we have already produced 3,000 plants," said Scientific OfficerRajib Sutradhar.

Both Centre and the Tripura Government are promoting the

bamboo industry in the state.

Tripura adopted its own state Bamboo Mission in 2007. Theestimated value of the bamboo industry in Tripura is Rs. 70.00

crores per annum and it has the potential to grow up to Rs. 400

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