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Bamboo is the fastest growing wood resource on earth and it is a viable substitute for timber and tropical hardwoods. There is a great industrial demand for it and interest in bamboo production is increasing throughout Asia, Africa, and America.
The global demand for bamboo is however already growing faster than supply can allow. The need for man-made bamboo plantations opens great possibilities for business in the agriculture and forestry sectors.
Over 1200 different species grow worldwide. Various species can reach heights of 30 m and more. About 18 million ha of bamboo are distributed in world forest ecosystems, in Asia, Africa, and America.
Unlike most timber, bamboo is a self-regenerating natural resource; new shoots that appear annually ensure future raw material after mature culms are harvested.
Bamboo provides considerable environmental benefits. In many countries, it is used for ecological purposes such as soil stabilization and erosion prevention on hill slopes and verges. It is a very important forestry plant which is harvested from existing natural forests, plantations, and mixed agroforestry systems. Bamboo silviculture is an option for conserving and protecting tropical forests while creating enduring supplies for the wood and cellulose industries.
Bamboo is a multipurpose plant with a myriad of applications ranging from construction materials, furniture, fences, handicrafts, pulp and paper, edible shoots, and animal fodder. In developing countries, it is a basic raw material with numerous traditional uses. It is highly suitable for handicrafts; it can be woven into numerous products including mats, baskets, trays, hats, lampshades, caps, lanterns, etc. Many bamboo products are functional while others serve decorative purposes.
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Plantations International is specialized in providing professional services for the development of bamboo plantations Worldwide. We offer a wide range of services to corporate or private investors, NGO’s, and forestry departments, ranging from full bamboo plantation management, technical assistance, supplying high quality planting materials, property scouting, and assistance in crop sales.
We currently manage bamboo plantations for timber, high fashion bamboo textiles, automotive parts, biomass, biochar, flooring, bicycles, food, furniture, garden design and modern housing and partner with experts internationally and locally to bring you ‘best practice’ in productive Bamboo Plantation and Management.
Our founders are strategic – with the long term in mind for a more ‘Balance Earth’. We know ‘Bamboo is the Future!’ as it is the most renewable, useful natural resource on the planet. It’s 10,000 uses can replace the dying Fossil industry and create jobs worldwide.
The Bamboo Management team and leaders are hand’s on. We partner with Indian Expert Dr. Barathi, USA expert Dr. John Woods, Columbian expert and famous Polo player Santiago Perdomo. We have researched the best processing practices and partners with University-lab’s and patents, Technology-machine processing, Design-Industrial Designers, in countless country’s from Asia, Africa to the America’s. We have developed strategic relationships with those in Governments, forestry, agriculture, manufacturing, shipping, services, and buyers of our plantation products Worldwide.
We are not just a Bamboo Plantation partner with you. – we are creating sustainable wealth for you and our future. It’s your bamboo, your choice and we have different service packages for you. We are building the industry around you. Carbon Credits may apply.
Bamboo has a promising future in a world where environmental enhancement and forest protection have become priority concerns.
Bamboo is the fastest growing wood resource on earth and it is a viable substitute for timber and tropical hardwoods. There is a great industrial demand for it and interest in bamboo production is increasing throughout Asia, Africa, and America.
The global demand for bamboo is however already growing faster than supply can allow. The need for man-made bamboo plantations opens great possibilities for business in the agriculture and forestry sectors.
From time immemorial bamboo has proven to be a reliable material with numerous practical applications. In the 21st century it will be an increasingly valuable commodity that will be cultivated and industrially processed. We can therefore expect to find more bamboo products on the market and more bamboo materials and furniture in our homes.
Rapid Growth and High Yield
Bamboo is a self-regenerating natural resource. When bamboo culms are harvested, new shoots emerge and replace them in a matter of months. Compared to trees that can only be harvested in rotations of several years, bamboo can be harvested annually. The rapid growth of bamboo means more harvests to ensure sustainable supplies.
Depending on the species, bamboo plantations can remain productive for more than 50 years. Harvesting in new bamboo plantations usually begins after 5 to 7 years.
Selective harvesting can be accomplished on large plantations with specialty designed equipment or on smaller plantations with low cost equipment; a machete or hacksaw is usually all that is needed. Harvesting systems range from manually harvesting 3-year-old culms to semi-mechanical harvesting methods on small plantations.
The Bamboo Market
The market for bamboo is enormous and it is rapidly growing. The spread of environmental awareness coupled with stricter regulations governing the exploitation of timber resources underlie the development of the bamboo market. Bamboo is demanded more than ever before because it is at once a good timber substitute and a rainforest saver. Europe and USA import vast quantities of bamboo products from Asia, including items such as toothpicks, sate sticks, brooms, poles for viniculture and arboriculture, small bamboo sticks for the production of Azalea, Begonia and tomatoes. Products with greater added value such as bamboo parquet, bamboo laminated lumber, paper, textiles, finely crafted furniture, handicraft items and other construction industry products have gradually made their entrance in international retail markets. In the food industry, young bamboo shoots constitute a multimillion-dollar business. Bamboo shoots are produced for export in China, Thailand, China, and Taiwan. They are sold fresh and tinned, sometimes in combination with sauces or spicy foods.
The solution to the problem lies in setting up efficiently managed bamboo plantations. A great advantage of bamboo is that it can grow in a wide variety of climates and soils, both in lowland and highland areas. Setting up new plantations is therefore feasible in many areas.
In a bamboo plantation, biomass can be sustained to maintain a green environment while maximizing the yield of raw material per hectare. A bamboo plantation of 1000 hectares can provide about 30,000 tons of wood resources, and thus renders unnecessary the cutting of over 50 thousand hardwood trees per year. This means an increase in total output and greater cost efficiency while enhancing the environment.
The Business of Growing Bamboo
Bamboo is the wood of the future. The increasing demand for raw material by developing bamboo industries is a sign that money can be made from growing bamboo.
The cost of setting up a new plantation undoubtedly depends on inputs such as labor, land preparation, fertilizer, irrigation, and plants. Costs are therefore similar to those incurred in timber forestation projects. The big difference is that the payback period of a bamboo plantation is much shorter than that of a timber forest. Investments can be fully recovered within 10 years. The reason for this is that profits are generated faster with bamboo than with wood. A bamboo plantation becomes profitable after five years. In addition, for the same initial investment, profits can be made over a longer period of time.
One only needs to consider that mature bamboo clumps can be annually harvested. Moreover, bamboo only needs to be planted once and it can be selectively harvested for over 50 years. With timber, replanting usually has to be done after every rotation. Some fast growing trees like eucalypts can be harvested 3 to 5 times in a period of 15 to 20 years. Their fast growth usually has a heavy toll on the environment since they have a high water uptake. Bamboo on the other hand uses ground water very efficiently. So not only is bamboo more economical that eucalypts and trees, it is also more ecological.
Another very important point is that the high biomass production of bamboo makes it extremely efficient as a source of pulp. Up to seven times more pulp can be produced per hectare of bamboo compared to softwoods. This means that a significantly higher turnover can be made from bamboo than from even the fastest growing softwoods.
The overall yield and profitability of bamboo plantations can be increased by means of intercropping with timber (e.g., teak). Intercropping with other fast growing cash crops (e.g., corn, maize, tea, etc.) can also be interesting, especially as an incentive for plantation caretakers.
This makes bamboo an interesting crop for rural people as well as industrialists with large estates. A small plantation of one hectare can provide work and income for a whole family. Medium sized plantations of several hundred hectares could provide sufficient bamboo for local cottage industries and furniture makers. Larger plantations of several thousand hectares can indefinitely supply high quality raw material to a pulp mill or plywood factory. In general, bamboo provides a good investment opportunity for anyone with an interest in the agricultural and forestry sectors. So long as there is a demand for wood, bamboo farming will prove to be a lucrative business.
The word bamboo comes from the Kannada term bambu. Bamboo is a flowering, perennial, evergreen plant in the grass family Poaceae, sub-family Bambusoideae, Their strength, straightness and lightness combined with extraordinary hardness, range in sizes, abundance, easy propagation and the short period in which they attain maturity make them suitable for a variety of purposes. Bamboo is a versatile, strong, renewable and environment-friendly material.
It is the fastest growing woody plant on earth. Most bamboo species produce mature fibre in 3 years, sooner than any tree species. Bamboo can be grown quickly and easily, and sustainably harvested in 3 to 5 years cycles. It grows on marginal and degraded land, elevated ground, along field bunds and river banks. It adapts to most climatic conditions and soil types, acting as a soil stabilizer, an effective carbon sink and helping to counter the green house effect. The diversity of this fascinating plant has to be conserved, not just for financial reasons and employment generation, but also more importantly in the revitalization of traditional science and technologies.
Bamboo distribution: - India has one of the richest bamboo resources in the world, second only to China. The annual bamboo production in the country is estimated 3.23 million tons. According to Forest Survey of India (FSI), in India bamboo grows in 8.96 million hectares of forest area, which constitutes about 12.8% of total forest area of the country. Of this, nearly 28% occur in the North Eastern States, followed by 20.3% in Madhya Pradesh, 9.90% in Maharashtra, 8.7% in Orissa, 7.4 % in Andhra Pradesh, 5.5% in Karnataka and the balance is spread in other States.
Diversified uses of bamboos: -Bamboos are employed for a variety of uses, these are the followings:-
Food purpose:- (a) A kind of food in Thailand is glutinous rice with sugar and coconut cream is specially prepared bamboo sections of different diameters and lengths (b) The shoots (new culms that come out of the ground) of bamboo are used in numerous Asian dishes and thin soups and are available in various sliced forms (c) The bamboo shoot in its fermented state forms an important ingredient in cuisines across the Himalayans (d) In Nepal, turmeric and oil mixed fermented bamboo shoots are cooked with potato to make a dish (e) In Indonesia, coconut milk and spices are mixed with thin slices of bamboo shoot to make a dish (f) Coconut milk mixed sliced bamboo shoots are cooked with vegetables to make a dish and others.
Ornament purpose: - Various ornaments are prepared from bamboo.
Structural support:- (a) Used as a construction material (b) Bamboo is used to hold up simple suspension bridges (c) In house making as posts, walls, roofing, flooring, fencing etc. (d) Used as decorative elements in buildings (e) Bamboo is used for drying clothes indoor (f) Make floating house (g) Used for making furniture (g) Bamboo is used for building roads.
Material making purpose: - (a) Commonly used to make ladders (b) Bamboo or wooden strips were the standard writing material during the Han Dynastry (c) Paper mills use bamboo for paper production (d) Bamboo has often been used to construct weapons (e) Bamboo is used as substitute of metal (f) Several manufacturers offer bamboo bicycles, surfboards, snowboards and stakeboards (g) Used to make fishing rods. (h) Bamboo has been traditionally used in Malaysia as a firecracker called bamboo cannon (i) Bamboo can be used in water desalination (j) Basket making (k) Used for making incense sticks and match splints (l) Handicrafts of various types (m) in packing various things (n) Bamboo waste materials can be used for making charcoal and briquetted coal
Musical instruments: - Flutes, drums, digeridoos, even saxophones making, bamboo is used.
Kitchen utensils: - (a) The empty hollow in the stalks of larger bamboo is often used to cook food (b) Used to make eating utensils i.e. chopsticks, strays and tea scoops (c) Cups and plates, spoons and ladles can all be made from bamboo.
Medicinal purpose: - (a) Bamboo is used for treating infections and healing (b) Fermented bamboo paste is used for the treatment of impotence, infertility and menstrual pains (c) A primary use has been to treat coughs and mucous in children (d) Leave and roots have been used for fevers, especially in babies, and for convulsions (e) Tender bamboo shoots are used for treating respiratory disorders and for other uses
Other uses: - (a) National plant of St. Lucia (b) Traditional Vietnamese villages are surrounded by thick bamboo hedges (c) Used as a fuel wood (d) Used for the cottage industry.
