Bamboo, the fastest growing woody grass on the earth, has attracted great deal of attention all across the globe due to its usefulness in enhancing productivity and providing environment and livelihood security through multifarious uses. There are more than 1500 recorded uses of bamboo. Bamboo stands occupy an area of 36 million hectares worldwide which is equivalent to 3.2 percent of the total forest area in the world. According to the INBAR global thematic study, over 63 percentages of bamboo resources are privately owned and the remaining 36 percentage bamboo plantations are owned by Governmental entities. In comparison 80 percentage of all world forests are public owned. India has largest bamboo forest area in the world with 11.40 million hectares or 16.8% of the total forest area (Anonymous, 2007). There are different reports on the number of genera and species of bamboo found in India. As per the latest compilation, 18 genera and 128 species have been reported. Of the total species found in India, about 20 are commercially used (Tewari, 1992; Seethalakshmi and Kumar, 1998). The annual consumption of bamboo in India is estimated to be about 4 metric tonnes out of which only 1 % comes from plantation and rest 99 % is obtained from forests. The current demand of bamboo is 26.69 million tonnes against supply of 13.47 milliontonnes in the country. This multipurpose species has enormous potential which has only been partly harnessed. Once cultivated, returns from bamboo are recurrent on annual basis after 5-6 years without much recurring investment in plantation thus making it commercially viable option for large scale cultivation.
Experiment Group
Forestry
Unit Type
(02)EDUCATION UNIT
Unit
(61)COLLEGE OF FORESTRY (NAU, NAVSARI)
Department
(2360)SILVICULTURE AND AGROFORESTRY, COF, NAU, NAVSARI
BudgetHead
(352/12029/00)352/01/REG/04205
Objective
1. To study growth variations among different species of bamboo at Waghai
2.To study correlation of growth parameters with biomass in bamboo species
Season
Not season specific
Location Unit Type
(02)EDUCATION UNIT
Location Unit
(61)COLLEGE OF FORESTRY (NAU, NAVSARI)
Location Department
(2360)SILVICULTURE AND AGROFORESTRY, COF, NAU, NAVSARI