Bamboo musings

Although termed "forest weed" or "the poor man's timber" bamboo's potential may satisfy modernity's growing needs

Bamboo can generate 516.33 million man days of work in India every year

With most of the global export market for bamboo products yet to be tapped and potential to generate 516.33 million man days of work every year, …

Propagation of bamboo

India's infinite money grass

Bamboo sustains large rural populations in india, and state forest department coffers

Sprucing up

Chinese paper industry in for a makeover

Where have the groves gone?

Overexploitation, skewed pricing policies and inefficient utilisation have laid bare the bamboo's vast reserves. While local communities clamour …

Bamboo shock

The Mizoram government gears up to face the menace of bamboo flowering

Warded off

Overturning a difficult situation

With careful planning, problems accompanying bamboo flowering can be overcome

Bamboo trouble

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Status change

Bamboo as agro-product

Bamboo shoots: Plants of nutrition and employment

Fermented bamboo shoots are a delicacy in the Northeast. They can also become a viable livelihood activity

Boost for bamboo

BAMBOO BOARDS & BEYOND· exhibition of bamboo furniture by The National Institute of Design·Ahmedabad·India Habitat Centre&…

New age patrons

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Bamboo boom

The cultivation of the grass is now less cumbersome

Divine dwellings

An organisation set up by priests provides inexpensive bamboo houses to people living in slums and on the streets

Environmentalist and Supreme Court lawyer Sanjay Upadhyay talks about planting bamboo on forest land

Parikh explains why private investors may not appreciate Government of India's scheme to allow bamboo plantations on degraded forest land

Careless losses

High-yield variety

Bamboo is key to rural growth

Bamboo bonanza

Cheap method to multiply non-seeding species

Where have the groves gone?

Overexploitation, skewed pricing policies and inefficient utilisation have laid bare the bamboo's vast reserves. While local communities clamour …

Rat menace

The flowering of the bamboo is bad news for the people in Mizoram

When bloom spells doom

Bamboo flowering in Orissa without fresh procurement threatens to drive plant to extinction

A wild food trail

Aparna Pallavi shares a monsoon recipe of Chhattisgarh