National Bamboo Mission

✅The National Bamboo Mission envisages promoting holistic growth of bamboo sector by adopting area-based, regionally differentiated strategy and to increase the area under bamboo cultivation and marketing. Under the Mission, steps have been taken to increase the availability of quality planting material by supporting the setting up of new nurseries and strengthening of existing ones. To address forward integration, the Mission is taking steps to strengthen marketing of bamboo products, especially those of handicraft items.

 

▪️Objectives:

 

✅ To increase the area under bamboo plantation in non forest Government and private  

lands to supplement farm income and contribute towards resilience to climate change  

as well as availability of quality raw material requirement of industries. The bamboo plantations will be promoted predominantly in farmers’ fields, homesteads, community  

lands, arable wastelands, and along irrigation canals, water bodies etc. 

✅ To improve post-harvest management through establishment of innovative primary processing units near the source of production, primary treatment and seasoning plants, preservation technologies and market infrastructure. 

✅ To promote product development keeping in view market demand, by assisting R&D, entrepreneurship & business models at micro, small and medium levels and feed bigger industry.

 

✅To rejuvenate the under developed bamboo industry in India. 

🔸To promote skill development, capacity building, awareness generation for development of bamboo sector from production to market demand. 

🔸To realign efforts so as to reduce dependency on import of bamboo and bamboo  

products by way of improved productivity and suitability of domestic raw material for  

industry, so as to enhance income of the primary producers.

 

✅67% of the Bamboo in India is grown in North East States and Govt. is providing support/subsidy for establishment of Bamboo based clusters in North Eastern States.

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