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Silviculture of South Asian Priority Bamboos (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Silviculture of South Asian Priority Bamboos (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Series: Tropical Forestry
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This monograph aims at bringing out a comprehensive collection of
information on bamboo varieties in South Asia. The main focus of
this book is to address the ecological and economic significance of
bamboos. Bamboo is a versatile group of plants, capable of
providing ecological, economic and livelihood security to the
people. In the tropics, especially the rural areas in different
countries of South Asia, most of the houses are made of bamboos. In
the hilly areas of Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and India, the tribal
people take bamboo shoots as one of their major food items since
prehistoric days. With palatable shoots and grass like leaves
bamboo plants have also been liked by many herbivore animals, such
as, elephants, the wild cattle, Indian Bison, and some species of
deer. The red-panda in the Himalayas, and primates, pigs, rats and
mice, porcupines, and squirrels are also incidental feeders on
southeast Asian bamboos. There has been a growing awareness in
recent years about the values of bamboo being an important means of
economic growth and for improving the socio-economic conditions of
the rural poor. Bamboo as an industrial material can substitute
wood and that to at low cost. Due to increasing demand and
squeezing of bamboo area the plants have been overexploited and the
quality and quantity of resource alarmingly getting depleted.
Besides many new bamboo based industries have come up which also
urgently require uninterrupted supply of species wise bamboo
resource. The south Asia region has bestowed with more than 300
bamboo species with enormous diversities at species, ecological and
genetical level. A number of bamboo species are found common among
countries of the region selected for various utilization potentials
having wide range of ability to adjust environmental conditions of
these countries and thus prioritized for cultivation. Both
government and private planters in the region have started
allocating funds, land and other logistics to raise large scale
plantation of desired bamboo species. This book has been drafted to
find out answers of the most pertinent queries based on the field
observations on each of the bamboo species and knowledge learnt
from the indigenous people living with bamboos in different parts
of south-east and south Asian countries. This monograph would be
interesting and useful to bamboo professionals, foresters,
horticulturists, field level extension workers, nurserymen,
planters, industrial entrepreneurs, ecologists, and valuable source
of reference to the relevant researchers and students in the
region.
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