Bamboo : The Wonderful Grass

Contents: Introduction. 1. Towards Bamboo mission. 2. Bamboo legends and Bamboo heroes. 3. Introducing bamboo. 4. Regeneration, harvesting and bamboo management. 5. Bamboo as medicinal herb. 6. Paper making from bamboo. 7. Rayon from bamboo. 8. Commercially important bamboo species. 9. State wise distribution of bamboo species in India. 10. Bamboo: a restorative of our forest. 11. Splitting and peeling of bamboo. 12. Processing: treatment, bleaching and dyeing. 13. Finishes in bamboo. 14. Tools for bamboo. 15. Lessons from Japan. 16. Tradition wisdom and bamboo research. 17. Bamboo craft and basketry of Manipur. 18. Bamboo crafts of Nagaland. 19. Bamboo crafts of Arunachal Pradesh. 20. Bamboo craft of Tripura. 21. Bamboo craft of Mizoram. 22. Bamboo craft of Meghalaya. 23. The Bamboo craft of Assam. 24. The Bamboo craft of Sikkim. 25. The Bamboo craft of West Bengal. 26. The Bamboo craft of Orissa. 27. The Bamboo craft of Bihar and Jharkhand. 28. The Bamboo craft of Uttar Pradesh. 29. The Bamboo craft of Uttaranchal. 30. The Bamboo craft of Himachal Pradesh. 31. The Bamboo craft of Jammu and Kashmir. 32. The Bamboo craft of Maharashtra. 33. The bamboo products of Madhya Pradesh and Chhatishgarh. 34. The Bamboo products of Karnataka and Goa. 35. The use of bamboo in Andhra Pradesh. 36. The bamboo products of Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry. 37. The use of Bamboo in Kerala. 38. Rain, Rain water harvesting and bamboo. 39. Bamboo vinegar and bamboo wine. 40. Clusterisation of bamboo products. 41. Bamboo as fuel. 42. Approach to bamboo product development. 43. THIO of bamboo sector. 44. SWOT of bamboo sector. 45. Social security for bamboo artisans. Bibliography. Index.

"In order to sustain comfortably human beings need materials for manufacture and construction. During various parts of the history various types of materials were used such as iron, copper and latest being the plastics. The sources of these materials were not renewable and most of them are not biodegradable. Thus they are not eco-friendly. With environmental concern we are back to the basics. It is now envisaged that "Bamboo" is our future material. It comes from renewable source and bamboo is biodegradable. It gives us textiles as rayon, paper, food, shelter, medicine and craft and ensures employment generation. It is often called "Green steel". With these backgrounds, government of India has now come up with "Bamboo Mission". An international organisation called INBAR is planning bamboo development. In many UNDP and UNIDO programmes bamboo figures. Though bamboo originated in India, we do not have sufficient books and references on bamboo. We have to refer Japanese scriptures. Out of 550 species of bamboo available in the world 178 species are found in India out of which 75 species are found only in North Eastern India. This book is an attempt to give backgrounds on bamboo in Indian context with the hope that it will be a tool for success of "Bamboo Mission". It will certainly be of help to administrators, researchers, planners and so on." (jacket)